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Pathology Bilirubin Metabolism 1c57a192

Hemochromatosis affects all of the following organs except:

A
Liver
B
Pancreas
C
Hea
D
Salivary gland
High-Yield Explanation
Deposition of hemosiderin in the following organs (in decreasing order of severity):- Liver cirrhosis Pancreas fibrosis Myocardium Pituitary gland Adrenal gland Thyroid -Skin pigmentation is paially attributable to hemosiderin deposition in dermal macrophages and fibroblasts, most of the pigmentation results from increased epidermal melanin production -In the liver, iron becomes evident first as golden-yellow hemosiderin granules in the cytoplasm of peripoal hepatocytes that stain with Prussian blue

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