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.
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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.
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"' 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.
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a rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism; copper accumulates in the liver and then in the red blood cells and brain पर्याय: Wilson''s disease,
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