scurvy.gif (193295 bytes) Image 2. Child with failure to thrive, hypertrophied gums and funny looking costo-chondral junctions. Seen in Malaysia in 1969. The diagnosis is:

 

 

                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image 2.    Scurvy and a scorbutic rosary. A full description of this case is found in, MacLean JD, Kamath KR: Infantile Scurvy in Malaysia. Med Journal Malaysia 24;200, l970

 

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