Vitamin B12 deficiency in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 438-439

  v Nguyen, T ^a   van Oijen, M G H ^b   Janssen, M J R ^b   van Asten, H ^b   Laheij, R J F ^b   Jansen, J B M J ^b  

^a CAN THO UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Viet Nam)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYANOCOBALAMIN;

ADULT; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELIAC DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; STOMACH CANCER; VIET NAM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIETNAM; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33748487151     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.01.014     Document Type: Letter

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