A case of alkaptonuria

Abstract

Insignificant population frequency of alkaptonuria - 3-5 per 1,000,000 (H.P. Bochkov et al., 1984), autosomal recessive character of inheritance, which often does not give family accumulation, late development of clinical symptoms (after 40 years) lead to that practical doctors, rarely meeting with the specified pathology and having no indication of family or congenital character of the disease, find it difficult to make a diagnosis.

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