Vitamin B12 deficiency

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 149-160

  Stabler, Sally P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHILLING TEST; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; INFANT; INJECTION; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARESTHESIA; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; INJECTIONS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; METHYLMALONIC ACID; MIDDLE AGED; PARESTHESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872061155     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1113996     Document Type: Article

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