Pernicious Anemia : Complications
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Neurological Disorders
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People with pernicious anemia may have gastric polyps and get gastric cancer and gastric carcinoid tumors twice as often than the normal population. Persistent neurological defects may be present if treatment is delayed.
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Pernicious anemia is a disease in which the red blood cells are abnormally formed, due to an inability to absorb vitamin B 12 . True pernicious anemia refers specifically to a disorder of atrophied parietal cells leading to absent intrinsic factor...
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Carcinoid syndrome is a group of symptoms associated with carcinoid tumor (see bronchial adenoma.
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Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors are rare malignancies in which cancer develops in hormone-producing cells that line the appendix, bronchus, esophagus, intestines, liver, ovary, pancreas, rectum, stomach, testes, and thymus. Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors are also called: carcinoids endocrine tumors, carcinoid type metastatic carcinoid tumors neuroendocrine tumors neuroendocrine cancers Types of gastrointestinal carcinoids Doctors describe gastrointestinal carcinoids according to the part of the gastrointestinal tract in which they originate.
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A colorectal polyp is a growth that sticks out of the lining of the colon or rectum.
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Gastric cancers are malignancies of the stomach.
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Stomach cancer (also known as gastric cancer) is a disease in which the cells forming the inner lining of the stomach become abnormal and start to divide uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. The stomach is a J-shaped organ that lies in the left and central portion of the abdomen.
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Stomach cancer (also known as gastric cancer) is a disease in which the cells forming the inner lining of the (Gale Group) stomach become abnormal and start to divide uncontrollably, forming a mass or a tumor. The stomach is a J-shaped organ that lies in the abdomen, on the left side.
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Gastric cancer (also known as stomach cancer) is a disease in which the cells forming the inner lining of the stomach become abnormal and start to divide uncontrollably, forming a mass or a tumor. The stomach is a J-shaped organ that lies in the abdomen, on the left side.
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Stomach cancer (also known as gastric cancer) is a disease in which the cells forming the inner lining of the stomach become abnormal and start to divide uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. The stomach is a J-shaped organ that lies in the left and central portion of the abdomen.
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