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Precipitating/aggravating factors of porphyria cutanea tarda in Spanish patients.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Dec 2002
Cruz-Rojo J, Fontanellas A, Morán-Jiménez M J, Navarro-Ordóñez S, García-Bravo M, Méndez M, Muñoz-Rivero M C, de Salamanca R Enríquez
Abstract excerpt
Erythrocyte uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD) activity was measured to classify 118 Spanish patients with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) into three subtypes: sporadic-, familial- and type III-PCT. Seventy-four patients (63%) had eythrocyte UROD activity within the normal range (74% to 126% of the mean activity of 43 healthy controls) and were classified as sporadic-PCT (47%) or as type III-PCT (16%) whenever a...
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