Evaluation of Macrocytic Anemias

Seminars in Hematology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 279-286

  Green, Ralph ^a   Dwyre, Denis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID;

5Q- SYNDROME; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLACKFAN DIAMOND ANEMIA; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL VOLUME; CONGENITAL DYSERYTHROPOIETIC ANEMIA TYPE 1; COPPER DEFICIENCY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG USE; FANCONI ANEMIA; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LIVER DISEASE; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALABSORPTION; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NON MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLAST; PATHOLOGY;

ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; HUMANS; MEGALOBLASTS;

EID: 84941906775     PISSN: 00371963     EISSN: 15328686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2015.06.001     Document Type: Review

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