Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Aug 1998
Review Case Reports[Perplexing acute or chronic somatic or psychiatric symptoms: possibly due to porphyria].
A woman aged 35 years had a classical picture of acute intermittent porphyria. However, the diagnosis was only made after repeated clinical investigations by internists, gastroenterologists, gynaecologists and surgeons working at a university hospital, and after an unnecessary laparotomy. ⋯ It may run a serious invalidating and life-threatening course. Its manifestations vary and may lead to very different clinical pictures.