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this is a relatively easy question, I just wanted to make sure everyone knew the answer.

41 year old with diarrhea , weightloss and epigastric discomfor undergoes and endscopic exam revealing diffusely thickened rugal folds resembling linitis plastica type of adenocarconoma. The biopsy reveals no cancer but a dramatic hyperplasia of the superficial mucous cells with scant gastric glands. As a consequence of this man will be losing excessive amounts of what ?

A carbohydrate
B Chloride
C fat
D protein
E water



  #2

Protein losing enteropathy...-Meniere's disease

  #3

yeah I knew it was too easy, but I just wanted to add another so I would have posted 5 today.









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