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Secondary coproporphyrinuria in a patient with the full clinical picture of a hereditary acute hepatic porphyria

A misleading clinical and biochemical course

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  1. Department of Neurology, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Kundratstr. 3, 1100, Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Oberndorfer, Peter Hitzenberger, Sabine Urbanits & Wolfgang Grisold

  2. Department of Gynecology, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Gruber & Johannes Seidel

  3. Department Biochemistry, University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    Manfred Doss

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Oberndorfer, S., Hitzenberger, P., Gruber, W. et al. Secondary coproporphyrinuria in a patient with the full clinical picture of a hereditary acute hepatic porphyria. J Neurol 249, 1325–1326 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-002-0797-y

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