Megaloblastic Anaemia Associated with Adult Scurvy
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Megaloblastic anaemia associated with adult scurvy.
Nowadays scurvy is fortunately rare. Cases are still found among the inmates of common lodging houses and those living alone, where age, decrepitude, or apathy may have led to an inadequate dietary intake. Rigid dieting as in peptic ulcer' may be an unusual cause. While the blood picture may show little change in the milder cases, anaemia of variable degree occurs in most adults with scurvy. It...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.36.418.502