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ArticleCureus2023

Copper Deficiency: An Overlooked Diagnosis.

Hirohisa Fujikawa, Junji Haruta

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hirohisa FujikawaCenter for General Medicine Education, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, JPN.
Junji HarutaCenter for General Medicine Education, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, JPN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Copper deficiency may often be overlooked due to physicians' poor awareness of the disease. Delayed diagnosis and therapy may lead to poor prognosis of neurological function. Here, we present a 68-year-old male with an approximately one-year history of unsteady feet who had visited several clinical departments and was finally diagnosed with copper deficiency. In the present case, it took approximately one year to diagnose the condition, and the therapy of copper supplementation led to only slight improvement in subjective symptoms. Physicians should be more aware of this condition for a good prognosis of the disease.

Indexed as

anemiacopper deficiencyfamily medicinegeneral internal medicineirreversible neurological damageleukopeniaoverlooked diagnosisvitamin b12 deficiency

Identifiers

PMID38130564
PMCPMC10733163

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