Copper and the liver: late lessons from the Camperdown experience.
In 1973 copper-associated liver disease was first described in an Australian boy of non-Indian origin who died at the age of 15 months with liver cirrhosis. At necropsy the hepatic copper concentration was excessively high (> 300 mg/g dry weight). It was shown that the boy s disease was caused by consumption of copper contaminated drinking water.
Walker-Smith
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The Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, Hampstead, London NW3 2QG, United Kingdom.
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