PEDIATRICS Vol. 46 No. 6 December 1970, pp. 973
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Letter To The Editor

Tuomas Peltonen 1

1 Professor in Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Turku, Turku 3, Finland

Stone and Barbero made a careful study of a number of children with abdominal distress and arrived at the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome. However, a more comprehensive entity was probably involved. Abdominal symptom is only one of many symptoms encountered in this syndrome. As the authors also stated there is headache, pallor, syncope, vertigo, and poor appetite. Certain circulatory symptoms also belong to this same syndrome. I described them in 1956.1

I see this syndrome as an entity which can be entered under the heading of neurovegetative dystonia.