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Incidence in 558 Biopsies from Patients With and Without Intrinsic Hepatic Disease

H. J. ZIMMERMAN, M.D.; B. CHOMET, M.D.; M. H. KULESH, M.D.; C. A. McWHORTER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1961;107(4):494-503.

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The diagnosis of hemochromatosis may be suspected when there is hepatomegaly, diabetes, and skin pigmentation, with or without gonadal atrophy.^1,2 Traditionally, confirmation has depended on the demonstration of hemosiderin in sections of skin² or in epithelial cells in the urine sediment.³ With the introduction of needle biopsy of the liver, direct diagnosis of this condition seemed available.^4,5 Indeed, several investigators^4-6 have emphasized the value of needle biopsy in the diagnosis of this disease. Hepatic hemosiderin deposits, however, are found in other diseases as well as in the constitutional disease, hemochromatosis.^1,2,7-10 Large amounts of iron-containing pigment have been demonstrated in the livers of patients with refractory or hemolytic anemia receiving multiple blood transfusions¹¹ and/or therapeutic doses of iron salts,¹² in South African natives suffering from Kwashiorkor,¹³ and in alcoholic patients with cirrhosis.^1,2,7-10,14

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Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

Departments of Medicine and Pathology of the West Side Veterans Administration Hospital and The Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois; Veterans Administration Hospital and University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska.

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Submitted for publication Nov. 7, 1960.

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