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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1966) 112: 203-207. doi: 10.1192/bjp.112.483.203
© 1966 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Acute Dilatation of the Stomach in a Patient with Anorexia Nervosa

G. F. M. RUSSELL M.D., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.1

1 Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5

A young girl with anorexia nervosa developed acute dilatation of the stomach when treated with a liquid diet which she found repugnant. This complication was thought to be at least partly psychogenic. Impaired absorption of water was demonstrated at the height of the gastric dilatation.

Submitted on March 4, 1965




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