Plummer-vinson (Patterson-Kelly) syndrome

✍ Scribed by Omeed Saghafi; Matthew Crull; Ian H. Jenkins

• Book ID: 102339692
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 323 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1553-5592
• DOI: 10.1002/jhm.465

✦ Synopsis

A 41-year-old woman with menorrhagia presented with dysphagia and fatigue. An examination revealed koilonychia (Figure 1), cheilosis, atrophic glossitis, and conjunctival pallor. The hemoglobin level was 4.3 g/dL, the mean corpuscu-