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Laboratory tests commonly used to evaluate malabsorption are given in Table 16. Long-standing malabsorption, with loss of weight and chronic diarrhoea, is usually combined with several pathological routine laboratory parameters which result from decreased absorption of several important nutrients. These pathological parameters (i.e. decreased cholesterol, decreased serum iron, decreased serum folate, anaemia, hypoproteinaemia) may give information about the consequences of long-standing postoperative malabsorption, but do not give any information on the dynamics of absorption, i.e. they cannot be considered as functional tests.
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Becker, H.D., Caspary, W.F. (1980). Laboratory Tests for Malabsorption. In: Postgastrectomy and Postvagotomy Syndromes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67350-4_9
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