Gamuts

Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet which does not supply a healthy amount of one or more nutrients. This includes diets that have too little nutrients or so many that the diet causes health problems. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Cause
Acute pancreatitis
Biconcave vertebra
Bilaterally enlarged and heterogeneous parotids
Chronic aspiration pneumonia in a child
Decreased subcutaneous fat
Delayed bone age
Demyelinating disease
Fatty liver
Fatty pancreas
Generalized osteopenia or osteolysis of the jaws
Generalized osteoporosis
Generalized small epiphyses
Growth acceleration lines
Hypoproteinemia
Large ventricles and sulci
Microcardia
Multiple abnormal epiphyses
Nail discoloration
Neuropathic bone changes of the hands or feet
Pancreatic calcification without mass
Pancreatitis in a child
Radiolucent metaphyseal bands
Salivary gland enlargement
Small epiphysis

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