Nazrul Islam K M
Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull. 1980 Dec;6(2):73-8.
One hundred and forty eight healthy and 152 undernourished children with varying degrees of severity were studied to see if their buccal smear correlated with undernourishment. The frankly undernourished children had retrograde changes more often than the other children. But the proportion of children showing no retrograde changes was similar in the different groups. It was concluded that buccal smear is not a dependable indicator of under nutrition.
对148名健康儿童和152名不同程度营养不良的儿童进行了研究，以观察他们的颊黏膜涂片是否与营养不良相关。明显营养不良的儿童比其他儿童更常出现退行性变化。但不同组中未出现退行性变化的儿童比例相似。得出的结论是，颊黏膜涂片不是营养不良的可靠指标。
