Although the use of liver biopsy has long been the gold standard for diagnosis of hemochromatosis, since the introduction of the genetic test its role has changed to one of primarily prognostic value.

and those subjects identified by this process were then confirmed by genetic testing and/or liver biopsy as having hemochromatosis. Of 147 liver biopsies performed, 4 men and no women were found ...

The team collected liver samples from five patients with hemochromatosis and five with ... which involves sectioning the ...