Caught on Capsule: Iron-deficiency Anemia Due to Hookworm Infection

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 167-169

  Seidelman, Jessica ^a   Zuo, Rena ^a   Udayakumar, Krishna ^a   Gellad, Ziad F ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADULT; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMORRHOID; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STOMACH INTUBATION; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHELMINTICS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84973409973     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.08.004     Document Type: Note

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