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. 2014 Sep 18:1:2333794X14550524.
doi: 10.1177/2333794X14550524. eCollection 2014.

Anemia in an Adolescent Male: Is It a Red Flag?

Avanikkha Elayappen  1 , Akila Muthukumar  1
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Anemia in an Adolescent Male: Is It a Red Flag?

Avanikkha Elayappen et al. Glob Pediatr Health. .
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Left image: Proctocolectomy specimen showing multiple polyps. Right image: Histopathology specimen of colon. The area between the white arrows is normal colonic mucosa. The entire area above the arrows is tubular adenoma with hyperchromatic and elongated pseudostratified nuclei. The green diamond marks the stalk of the tubular adenoma.
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