Macrocytic anemia screening

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Macrocytosis is the enlargement of red blood cells with near-constant haemoglobin concentration, and is defined by a mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of greater than 100 femtolitres (the precise criterion varies between laboratories).

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