Partial villous atrophy in nutritional megaloblastic anaemia corrected by folic acid therapy.
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A patient with megaloblastic anaemia due to nutritional folate deficiency is described. Partial villous atrophy and malabsorption of xylose showed progressive improvement to normal with folic acid therapy.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical pathology
دوره 24 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971