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Low ceruloplasmin in a patient with Niemann-Pick type C disease.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Apr 2012
Connemann Bernhard J, Gahr Maximilian, Schmid Markus, Runz Heiko, Freudenmann Roland W
Abstract excerpt
We present a 28-year-old woman with a diagnosis of Niemann-Pick type C disease which was initially diagnosed as Wilson disease due to low serum ceruloplasmin and elevated free copper. This report supports the hypothesis that NPC1 could play a role in copper metabolism.
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