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Hemochromatosis: an endocrine liver disease.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Oct 2007
Pietrangelo Antonello
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This review acknowledges the recent and dramatic advancement in the field of hemochromatosis and highlights the surprising analogies with a prototypic endocrine disease, diabetes. The term hemochromatosis should refer to a unique clinicopathologic subset of iron-overload syndromes that currently includes the disorder related to the C282Y homozygote mutation of the hemochromatosis protein HFE (by far the most...
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