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A 15 year old boy with profound weight loss was found to have foreign body obstruction of the lower oesophagus. Achalasia was subsequently diagnosed and there was rapid gain in weight and height after oesophagomyotomy .
Three members of a family previously reported by Sheldon, Luder and Web in 1961 as having a benign tubular renal disease have since developed renal failure. One received a renal transplant but died following this. This form of apparently primary, dominantly-inherited Fanconi syndrome is a mild disease in childhood, but leads to renal failure in adult life.
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