Porphyrias and Mental Handicap
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substances, the main one of which he called haematoporphyrin (porphurouspurple). Three years later Schultz published the first case of porphyria. In 1911 Glinther classified the diseases of porphyrin metabolism from published cases, including his own. Since then, numerous papers have been published and various classifications put forward. The latest classification is that from Brodie et al,2 in which the major sites of abnormal porphyrin production are liver and bone marrow:
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دوره 93 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1978