Hemochromatosis affects all of the following organs except:: (A) Liver, (B) Pancreas, (C) Hea, (D) Salivary gland
Answer is D. 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