Anemias in Saudi population

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 754-758

  El Hazmi, Mohsen A ^a,b   Warsy, Arjumand S ^b  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anemia; Hypochromic microcytic; Macrocytic; Normochromic normocytic; Saudi arabia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000764324     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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