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. 1971 Mar;24(2):131–135. doi: 10.1136/jcp.24.2.131

Partial villous atrophy in nutritional megaloblastic anaemia corrected by folic acid therapy

D W Dawson 1
PMCID: PMC476931  PMID: 5551380

Abstract

A patient with megaloblastic anaemia due to nutritional folate deficiency is described. Partial villous atrophy and malabsorption of xylose showed progressive improvement to normal with folic acid therapy.

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