Vitamin B 12 levels in children with intestinal resection at the level of the ileum

: Serum concentration of vitamin B12 is reported in children who had previously lost partially or totally the ileum. Only one of them showed a definite pondostatural retardation when evaluation of growth and development was done. No evidence of anemia was found in any one of them and the estimation of vitamin B12 was abnormally low in only one case. Findings are discussed and the necessity to carry out a periodic control of vitamin B12 in children with ileal resection is stressed.