Wilson’s disease is characterized by radical-generating, tissue-toxic depositions of copper in the brain, liver and cornea (in the periphery of Descemet‘s membrane). Subsequent human genetic ...

Kayser-Fleischer rings, corneal deposits of copper in Descemet ... Adapted from Schilsky ML, Tavil AS. Wilson disease. In: Schiff's Diseases of the Liver. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and ...

Osteoporosis is a common complication of chronic liver disease. Although bone demineralization has been noted in Wilson's disease—which involves pathologic copper accumulation—the exact ...

Expert Rev Ophthalmol. 2008;3(2):177-192. Clinically, cornea verticillata associated with amiodarone, (hydroxy-)chloroquine and Fabry's disease may be difficult to discriminate. As Fabry's disease ...