Hemochromatosis affects all of the following organs except:
Correct Answer: Salivary gland
Description: 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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