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Nutritional deficiency dermatitis related to branched-chain amino acid restriction in a child with maple syrup urine disease

Abstract

We present a one-year-old girl with maple syrup urine disease with dermatitis secondary to the restriction of amino acids as part of the treatment. We present the clinical evolution and histopathological correlation.