IN 1932 Bürger and Grütz1 described a new clinical syndrome in children that was characterized by the following triad: sporadic attacks of acute abdominal pain; a xanthomatous type of skin lesion; and a fasting serum that was milky white. A total of 85 cases have now been reported from various parts of the world.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Children with idiopathic hyperlipemia usually first come to the attention of the physician because of peculiar attacks of abdominal pain. This is characterized by extreme tenderness, boardlike rigidity and sometimes collapse. These attacks are accompanied by fever, an increase in the neutrophil count and anorexia and . . .
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Boggs et al. (1957) studied this question.