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Figure 11 : Iron overload: gross pathologic findings. Autopsy specimens show iron deposition in the liver, pancreas, and a lymph node in a patient who died with hemochromatosis. Note the dark brown hue of these organs.
The principal features of classic primary hemochromatosis are excessive ferritin and hemosiderin in the liver, pancreas, myocardium, joints, endocrine glands, and skin, in decreasing order of severity (Fig. 10 and Fig. 11). Because the liver contains ...
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