Journal of Hepatology
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages 628-638 , October 1997

Ultrastructural sequences during liver iron overload in genetic hemochromatosis

  • Theodore C. Iancu

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Prof. T. C. Iancu, Electron Microscopy Unit, B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, P.O. Box 9649, Haifa 31096, Israel. Tel: 972-4-829-5219. Fax: 972-4-851 7008.
    • Electron Microscopy Unit, B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Yves Deugnier

      Affiliations

    • Clinique des Maladies du Foie and INSERM Unit 49, University Hospital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
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  • June W. Halliday

      Affiliations

    • Liver Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research and The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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  • Lawrie W. Powell

      Affiliations

    • Liver Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research and The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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  • Pierre Brissot

      Affiliations

    • Clinique des Maladies du Foie and INSERM Unit 49, University Hospital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France

Received 23 January 1997 ,Revised 12 May 1997 ,Accepted 26 May 1997.

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Journal of Hepatology
Volume 27, Issue 4 , Pages 628-638 , October 1997

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