is a 15-year-old girl who was admitted to a General Teaching Hospital because of prolonged weight loss and refusal to eat. On admission she weighed 35 kg (5.5 st), which at a height of 1.55 m meant that she was well below the third centile on Height and Weight standard charts. When I asked Anne-Mari
Anorexia nervosa and pregnancy withmultiple fetuses: A case study
β Scribed by D. Maguire; K.A. Moreland
- Book ID
- 113968673
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 101
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8223
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