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To the Editor: In my opinion, the first of the two images provided by Wortsman in Images in Clinical Medicine (Dec. 12 issue)¹ is really "useful and clinically important." ² In a 62-year-old woman with hemochromatosis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows a dark liver, even darker than the hepatic veins.

The meaning of the second image is less clear. Wortsman states that it shows "almost complete resolution of the abnormality" after 32 phlebotomies, when the serum ferritin concentration was 606 ng per milliliter and thus when the hepatic iron stores were not yet completely removed. Why did the patient undergo a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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