A 47-year-old woman with persistent watery diarrhea, proteinuria, proximal weakness and monoclonal gammopathy

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 351-354

  Voulgarelis, M ^b   Goutas, N ^b   Skopouli, F N ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Monoclonal gammopathy; Multiple myeloma; Neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETHARGY; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RECTUM BIOPSY;

EID: 0032990695     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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