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Measurement of liver iron content in paraffin-embedded biopsies
C van Deursen1, M de Metz, J Koudstaal
1Department of Internal Medicine, De Wever-Hospital, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry. Zeitschrift Fur Klinische Chemie Und Klinische Biochemie
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
A reliable method for the determination of total liver iron in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue is presented. The correlation with total liver iron in fresh tissue is good (r = 0.92). Material, which is processed routinely in the pathological anatomical department and stored in the archives, can be used for a quantitative iron determination for clinical or research purposes.