Megaloblastic anaemia in Zimbabwe: the pernicious anaemias
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1990-07Author
Mukiibi, JM
Makumbi, FA
Paul, B
Gwanzura, C
Pade, JK
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This study of 16 patients with pernicious anaemia (PA) (9 males and 7 females); serves as further evidence that the disease is not as infrequent in Africans as the literature stressing its rarity in the past appears to have suggested. The age-old preconceptions about racial incidence; age of onset; and absence of adequate laboratory facilities particularly in the African setting have hitherto greatly contributed to under-diagnosis of this disorder in Africans.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2226229http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31836
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East Afr Med J. 1990 Jul;67(7):501-6Publisher
University of Nairobi Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10378]