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ACP Best Practice No 163. Wilson's disease: acute and presymptomatic laboratory diagnosis and monitoring.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Nov 2000
Gaffney D, Fell G S, O'Reilly D S
Abstract excerpt
Wilson's disease, the most common inherited disorder of copper metabolism, is a recessive genetic condition. The clinical presentation of Wilson's disease is very variable. It is characterised by low serum copper and caeruloplasmin concentrations coupled with the pathological accumulation of copper in the tissues. However, there are diagnostic difficulties and these are discussed. The current value of DNA...
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