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Essential pentosuria

Enzyme or protein defect

L-Xylulose reductase

Accumulates or becomes deficient

L-Xylulose

Key features

Benign; incidental urinary reducing substance

Management

None

Not clinical guidance. Written from standard clinical biochemistry, not from the uploaded documents, and marked unreviewed. Teaching-level reference for study and database seeding only. It must not be used to manage a patient.

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