Plummer-Vinson syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
D50.1	Sideropenic dysphagia
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Under the Plummer-Vinson syndrome (also sideropenic dysphagia , Paterson-Brown-Kelly syndrome ) is defined as a symptom complex trophic disorders , specifically by iron deficiency can be triggered. It is named after the American internist and endocrinologist Henry Stanley Plummer (1874-1936) and the American surgeon Porter Paisley Vinson (1890-1959).

There are mucous membrane defects, angular cheek defects (tears in the corner of the mouth), brittle nails and hair, burning tongue and dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) due to larger mucous membrane defects. The disease continues to be an endogenous risk factor for the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (esophageal cancer).

literature

• G. Novacek: Plummer-Vinson syndrome . In: Orphanet J Rare Dis. , 2006 Sep 15, 1, p. 36. PMID 16978405

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