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A Patient Who Had a Schilling Test Shows a 20

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A patient who had a Schilling test shows a 20% excretion of the radioactive vitamin B12.What would this indicate?


A) The patient has a low reserve of iron and has iron-deficiency anemia.
B) The patient has a normal finding and does not have pernicious anemia.
C) The patient has a deficiency of thrombocytes and has a clotting disorder.
D) The patient has an excess of RBCs and has polycythemia.

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