TY - JOUR
AU1 - Levine, Seymour
AB - AMERICAN JOURNAL OP CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Vol. 33, No. 1, January, I960, pp. 66-69 Printed in U.S.A. SEYMOUR LEVINE, M.D. Department of Pathology, Si. Francis Hospital, Jersey City, New Jersey Increased body iron in hemochromatosis 3 mentation that increased distally. The distal and in some instances of ingestive siderosis 3 duodenal and entire jejunal mucosa were has been attributed to intestinal absorption l uniformly black. Pigmentation in the ileum despite the absence of conspicuous siderosis 3 was less intense and had a punctate dis- 6,8 18 of the intestinal mucosa. - In contrast, , tribution (Fig. 1). The cecal mucosa was other instances of nutritional or ingestive 5 darker than the ileal, but pigmentation siderosis have revealed iron deposits in the 5 decreased greatly in the ascending colon, intestine. This report concerns a case of [ and the distal colon seemed to be normal. ingestive siderosis in which there was con­ - The appendix was absent owing to surgery. spicuous pigmentation of the intestines, , Microscopic sections of the intestines providing macroscopic evidence of sites of [ revealed dark brown, refractile pigment iron absorption. tha t resembled hemosiderin and gave a positive ferrocyanide reaction for iron. REPOR T OF CASE 
TI - Intestinal Siderosis
JF - American Journal of Clinical Pathology
DO - 10.1093/ajcp/33.1.66
DA - 1960-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/intestinal-siderosis-6uiYOEY4FZ
SP - 66
EP - 69
VL - 33
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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