PMID: 2511121Sep 1, 1989Paper

Pernicious anemia, vitiligo and positive antiglobulin test: an unusual association

Haematologica
A PelosioR Massini

Abstract

The authors present the case of a patient with concomitant pernicious anemia and positive antiglobulin test. After discussing previous cases in the literature and pointing out the probably simultaneous occurrence of the two, the authors comment on the persistence of a positive antiglobulin test after remission of the pernicious anemia and the association with vitiligo, which has been sometimes described as associated with autoimmune hemolytic anemia and more often with pernicious anemia, but not with both. The patient also had diabetes mellitus and a persistently false positive test for syphilis.

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