Significant association of deficiency of hemoglobin, iron and vitamin B12, high homocysteine level, and gastric parietal cell antibody positivity with atrophic glossitis

Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 500-504

  Sun, Andy ^a,b   Lin, Hung Pin ^b,c   Wang, Yi Ping ^a,b,c   Chiang, Chun Pin ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atrophic glossitis; Gastric parietal cell antibody; Hemoglobin; Homocysteine; Iron; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; IRON; PARIETAL CELL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC GLOSSITIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BURNING SENSATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOSSITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH PARIETAL CELL; THRUSH; VARICOSIS; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES; ATROPHY; BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GLOSSITIS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPESTHESIA; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL CELLS, GASTRIC; TASTE DISORDERS; TONGUE; TONGUE DISEASES; VARICOSE VEINS; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84858406745     PISSN: 09042512     EISSN: 16000714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.2011.01122.x     Document Type: Article

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