• Anemia can be associated with adenoids.
  • The type of anemia which develop in those patients is anemia of chronic illness which is often normocytic normochromic but sometimes microcytic hypochromic.
  • Adenoidectomy, although eradicate the pathology which may be the cause of anemia but cannot achieve marked improvement of  the hematological study of the patients.
  • Iron therapy can improve anemia in patients with adenoids as abnormal iron metabolism is implicated in the pathogenesis of anemia of chronic illness.
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