Correction

Hepatic Iron Concentration and Total Body Iron Stores in Thalassemia Major

N Engl J Med 2000; 343:1740December 7, 2000

Article

Hepatic Iron Concentration and Total Body Iron Stores in Thalassemia Major (Original Article, N Engl J Med 2000:343;327 - 331) . On page 328, the sentence that begins on the second line of the left-hand column should have read, “Atomic absorption spectrophotometry measures the total (heme and nonheme) content of iron, but for the purpose of our study, the contribution of heme iron was considered negligible,” not “the contribution of nonheme iron was considered negligible,” as printed.