Severe amyloidosis with mild multiple myeloma - An unusual course

Haematologia

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-59

  Zeidman, A ^a   Sender, B Z ^a   Yarmolovsky, A ^a   Fradin, Z ^a   Mittelman, M ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Multiple myeloma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; COLCHICINE; MELPHALAN; PREDNISONE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COLCHICINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MELPHALAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PREDNISONE;

EID: 0033648916     PISSN: 00176559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685590051129904     Document Type: Article

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