[Pernicious anemia: a teenager with an unusual cause of iron-deficiency anemia]

Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2007 Dec;31(12):1155-6. doi: 10.1016/s0399-8320(07)78357-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A teenager was admitted with an iron-deficiency anemia. The gastroscopy found an atrophic body gastritis, which revealed a pernicious anemia. This diagnosis is rare in paediatric patients, the frequency of pernicious anemia increasing with age. Iron-deficiency anemia is mainly described in young people.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / etiology*
  • Anemia, Pernicious / complications*
  • Gastric Fundus / pathology
  • Gastritis, Atrophic / complications*
  • Humans
  • Intrinsic Factor / analysis
  • Male
  • Parietal Cells, Gastric / pathology
  • Vitamin B 12 / analysis
  • Vitamin B Complex / analysis

Substances

  • Vitamin B Complex
  • Intrinsic Factor
  • Vitamin B 12