Abdominal Pain in Hemochromatosis

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Abstract
AMONG the various manifestations of hemochromatosis are sometimes found certain symptomatic and objective features that simulate acute abdominal conditions. Writers in the medical literature in the United States have given scant notice to the finding of abdominal pain in this disease. Boland and Curran1 presented one of the few reports of such abdominal symptomatology in hemochromatosis occurring in two brothers. The first entered the hospital with signs and symptoms suggesting cholecystitis. Cholecystectomy was performed, and on pathological examination the gall bladder was found to be normal. However, observation of a brown, cirrhotic liver at operation led to skin biopsy, and . . .

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