Vitamin B12-deficient child of a vegan mother
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Cerebral Atrophy in a Vitamin B12-deficient Infant of a Vegetarian Mother
In developed countries, vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency usually occurs in children, exclusively breastfed ones whose mothers are vegetarian, causing low body stores of vitamin B12. The haematologic manifestation of vitamin B12 deficiency is pernicious anaemia. It is a megaloblastic anaemia with high mean corpuscular volume and typical morphological features, such as hyperlobulation of the nu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Food and Feed Research
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2217-5369,2217-5660
DOI: 10.5937/ffr1902219m