Tetany and Chronic Diarrhea
Authors: Albert M. Snell, Harold C. Habein
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1928)

Article1 March 1928Tetany and Chronic DiarrheaALBERT M. SNELL, M.D., HAROLD C. HABEIN, M.D.ALBERT M. SNELL, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, HAROLD C. HABEIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-1-9-694 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe infrequency of tetany as an accompaniment of diarrhea is attested by the fact that most contemporary writers on tetany rarely discuss diarrhea as an etiologic factor. The subject is barely mentioned by MacCallum, and Dock and Lisser. Barker describes "tetania colonica" which he says may be produced in predisposed persons by dilatation and obstruction at any point in the intestinal tract. Critchley, in reviewing the pathogenesis of tetany, speaks of the intestinal and colonic types of the syndrome, and enumerates certain recorded causes. 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