Pernicious anaemia among Arabs in Kuwait
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Pernicious anaemia among Arabs in Kuwait.
Addisonian pernicious anaemia is believed to be very rare in Arabs. Three cases are reported. Two were Jordanians of Palestinian origin and one an Egyptian. All had the typical peripheral macrocytosis, a frankly megaloblastic bone marrow, and a Schilling test result in the range of pernicious anaemia. All three improved remarkably on vitamin B(12) therapy and have maintained a normal haemoglobi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.23.7.577