Anemia, hematinic deficiencies, hyperhomocysteinemia, and gastric parietal cell antibody positivity in burning mouth syndrome patients with macrocytosis

• Main Authors: Ying-Tai Jin (Author), Yu-Hsueh Wu (Author), Yang-Che Wu (Author), Julia Yu-Fong Chang (Author), Chun-Pin Chiang (Author), Andy Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/purpose: Macrocytosis is defined as having the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) ≥ 100 fL. This study evaluated whether 46 burning mouth syndrome (BMS) patients with macrocytosis had significantly higher frequencies of anemia, hematinic deficiencies, hyperhomocysteinemia, and serum gastric pa...