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Volume 338:266-268 January 22, 1998 Number 4
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Medical Mystery — The Answer Revealed

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To the Editor: In the December 4 Image in Clinical Medicine my guess is that the twin on the right (Figure 1)1 has Addison's disease. But that seems too obvious to be correct.


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  		Figure 1. A Medical Mystery.

 


John K. Emy, M.D.
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY 10016

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  1. Frothingham R. A medical mystery. N Engl J Med 1997;337:1666-1666. [Free Full Text]
 
To the Editor: "Do not fear me that I am bronzed, that the sun has tanned me. . . . Swarthy I am and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem."1

Beautiful she is, and bronzed, too, but not by the sun. The patient is the twin on the right, who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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