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Case Reports
. 1991 Sep-Oct;203(5):406-7.
doi: 10.1055/s-2007-1025464.

[Case report of a nutrition-induced anemia due to folic acid deficiency]

[Article in German]
J V Leeners  1 , J Huth
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[Case report of a nutrition-induced anemia due to folic acid deficiency]

[Article in German]
J V Leeners et al. Klin Padiatr. 1991 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Because of anaemia and dystrophy a girl was admitted to hospital. By bone marrow aspiration the diagnosis of a megalocytic anaemia was established. The determination of folic acid revealed a severe folate deficiency caused by education problems with consecutive malnutrition. Under folic acid replacement therapy and intensive talks with the parents the girl recovered from her illness and after change of nutrition she developed well without any further folic acid replacement.

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