Pernicious anaemia in a 50 year old Nigerian Igbo woman
A fifty year old Nigerian Igbo woman presented with subacute combined degeneration of the cord, hyperpigmentated spots on the palms and soles, white eye lashes, grey hairs, clonic-tonic convulsions and heart failure. She had had intractable anaemia despite multiple blood transfusions and hematinics...
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Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2004-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Medicine and Health Development |
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Online Access: | http://www.ijmhdev.com/article.asp?issn=2635-3695;year=2004;volume=9;issue=1;spage=38;epage=39;aulast=Ikeh;type=0 |