Anorexia-bulimia is a frequent psychiatric affection in adolescent female populations
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]. Such eating disorders may have a higher morbi-mortality than usually described in
literature. Among frequently encountered complications of this disease, major gastric
dilatation can dramatically evolve to death. We present the case of a young woman
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: November 30, 2012
Accepted:
October 2,
2012
Received in revised form:
October 1,
2012
Received:
September 25,
2012
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☆All authors have substantially contributed to the conception, the design, and the acquisition of data of the article. They both drafted the article and revised it critically for important intellectual content. They gave their approval of the version to be published.
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