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[Primary hemochromatosis in asymptomatic young patients].
Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) - 1 Jan 2000
Muñoz Sánchez M M, Núñez Martínez O, Torres Orgaz A, del Castillo Rueda A, de Portugal Alvarez J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: In order to increase our knowledge of adult haemochromatosis epidemiology and its clinical behaviour in young patients, we studied 4 patients from 3 pedigrees with idiopathic haemochromatosis. METHODS: Diagnostic criteria were: 1) Discarding the presence of secondary haemosiderosis. 2) Histological and histochemical confirmation of hepatic iron overload. Mean age at time of diagnosis was 25.2 years....
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