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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 8, 173-178, Copyright © 1960 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.
1 From The Mount Sinai Hospital and Columbia University, New York, New York
Primary malabsorption syndrome includes several clinical entities which are probably varieties of the same inborn metabolic disorder. It is not clear at present whether the characteristic changes of atrophy of the small intestinal mucosa seen at autopsy and in biopsy specimen of patients with the primary malabsorption syndrome are due to a specific enzymatic or nutritional defect or whether they result from some toxic or other influences.
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