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Citrin deficiency presenting with ketotic hypoglycaemia and hepatomegaly in childhood

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  1. Tokyo Metropolitan Hachioji Children’s Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Momoko Hachisu & Seiji Noma

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655 Japan

    Momoko Hachisu, Yoichiro Oda, Masahiro Goto & Sachiko Kitanaka

  3. Department of Molecular Metabolism and Biochemical Genetics, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

    Keiko Kobayashi & Takeyori Saheki

  4. Department of Paediatrics, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

    Toshihiro Ohura

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Hachisu, M., Oda, Y., Goto, M. et al. Citrin deficiency presenting with ketotic hypoglycaemia and hepatomegaly in childhood. Eur J Pediatr 164, 109–110 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-004-1549-z

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