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Amylophagia and iron deficiency anemia
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Anesthesiology, Fairleigh Dickinson University College of Dental Medicine, Hackensack, N.J.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
Iron deficiency anemia may be associated with dietary practices such as amylophagia, which is seen frequently in women of certain ethnic origins. Starch eating may be a direct or indirect cause or symptom of iron deficiency anemia. Orofacial symptoms of amylophagia and iron deficiency anemia are discussed. A case in which anemia and dietary aberration were incidental to the admitting diagnosis is presented.