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Quantification of liver iron overload disease with laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12880-018-0291-3

Published Online: 2018-12-04

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Kim, Philipp

Weiskirchen, Sabine

Uerlings, Ricarda

Kueppers, Astrid

Stellmacher, Florian

Viveiros, André

Zoller, Heinz

Weiskirchen, Ralf https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-0931
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB/TRR57 (P13 and Q3))

Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF) within the Faculty of Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University (O3-1)
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Article History

Received: 9 November 2018

Accepted: 14 November 2018

First Online: 4 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study protocol conformed to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki as reflected in a priori approval by the appropriate institutional review committee. Informed verbal consent for liver biospsy was obtained from all patients. Additional ethical approval to analyse these anonymized liver specimens in our study was granted by the local Human Research Ethics Committees and the Institutional Review Board at the RWTH University Hospital Aachen (EK256/12 and EK186/15).

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