A 47-year-old man who had been working as a self-employed plumber in Nara Prefecture, Japan, for about 30 years presented to the emergency department with a 2-week history of abdominal pain and anorexia. Blood tests showed microcytic anemia: the blood smear showed erythrocytes with basophilic
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