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*Iron overload --> cirrhosis. (???)
*Iron overload --> cirrhosis. (???)


===Histopathology===
===Microscopic===
*Periportal changes (early), i.e. no iron centrilobular.
*Periportal changes (early), i.e. no iron centrilobular.
**Late stage disease has diffuse iron deposition.
**Late stage disease has diffuse iron deposition.
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*Light blue haze is not enough.
*Light blue haze is not enough.
**NOT siderosis -- in Kupffer cells.
**NOT siderosis -- in Kupffer cells.
Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemosiderosis_high_mag.jpg Hemosiderosis - iron stain (WC)].


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