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AN ANALYSIS OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN HUMAN LIVERS

ELAINE P. RALLI, M.D.; EMANUEL PAPPER, M.D.; KARL PALEY, M.D.; ELI BAUMAN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1941;68(1):102-111.

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The vitamin A content of the liver has been reported by several observers,¹ but as a variety of methods were used for the determination of vitamin A and as many of these methods have since been shown to have a wide margin of error, the majority of the results are qualitative rather than quantitative. An exception to this is the report by Crimm and Short,² in which the livers of 7 healthy persons were found to have an average vitamin A content of 33,100 U. S. P. units per hundred grams of liver. In a later study³ they reported that in 50 patients with tuberculosis the average vitamin A content of the liver was 34,200 U. S. P. XI units per hundred grams. In 14 of the patients, however, the vitamin A content of the liver was low. Occasional scattered reports of both the vitamin A and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, New York University College of Medicine.

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