A two-and-a-half-year-old breastfed toddler presenting with anemia: a case report

BACKGROUND: Anemia is a common presentation in children but the differential diagnosis of iron deficiency and β-thalassemia remains a diagnostic challenge. Red blood cell indices have been shown to perform weakly in such scenarios. One potential cause is breastfeeding, but the evidence for unusually...

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Autores principales: Bock, Fabian, Borucki, Katrin, Vorwerk, Peter, Biemann, Ronald, Isermann, Berend
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25514884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-917

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25514884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-917

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