Neurologic findings of nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency in children

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-21

  Incecik, Faruk ^a   Hergüner, M Özlem ^a   Altunbaşak, Şakir ^a   Leblebisatan, Göksel ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Infants; Neurologic findings; Vitamin B12 deficiency

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANISOCYTOSIS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE STUDY; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED TONIC SEIZURE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR GRANULOCYTE HYPERSEGMENTATION; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANEMIA, MEGALOBLASTIC; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 77950438337     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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