hepatolenticular degeneration การใช้
- He described hepatolenticular degeneration in his Gold Medal winning M . D . dissertation of 1912 titled " Progressive lenticular degeneration " from the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
- Frerichs gave the first clinical description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration ( now known as Wilson's disease ), and also discovered the presence of leucine and tyrosine in urine involving yellow atrophy of the liver.
- "' Blue nails "', or more formally "'azure lunula "', are characterized by a blue discoloration of the lunulae, seen in argyria and cases of hepatolenticular degeneration ( Wilson's disease ), also having been reported in hemoglobin M disease and hereditary acrolabial telangiectases.