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investigation of Twenty-Three Cases, with Special Reference to Etiology, Nutrition, Iron Metabolism, and Studies of Hepatic and Pancreatic Function

T. L. ALTHAUSEN, M.D.; R. K. DOIG, M.B.; S. WEIDEN, M.Sc.; R. MOTTERAM, M.B., B.Sc.; C. N. TURNER, B.Sc.; A. MOORE, B.Sc.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;88(5):553-570.

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IN THE study of a rare disease it is unusual for one group of investigators to be able to see personally a large series of cases. The occasion of the visit of one of us (T. L. A.) to Melbourne, Australia, was taken to study a group of 15 patients with hemochromatosis (13 men and 2 women) and to assess case records and pathological material available on a further eight patients (7 men and 1 woman). All the patients had been seen at the Clinical Research Unit of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the last three and one-half years.

As a basis for this study we took the excellent monograph on hemochromatosis by Sheldon¹ and found that little need be added, on the clinical side, to his description of the disease. But in the last few years advances have taken place in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO; MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Footnotes
Read before the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians, Atlantic City May 3, 1950.