Simultaneous occurrence of multiple aetiologies of polycythaemia: Renal cell carcinoma, sleep apnoea syndrome, and relative polycythaemia in a smoker with masked polycythaemia rubra vera

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 561-564

  Shih, Lee Yung ^a   Wang, Ming Lun ^a   Fu, Jen Fen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Endogenous erythroid colony; Erythrocytosis; Polycythaemia rubra vera; Relative polycythaemia; Renal cell carcinoma; Sleep apnoea syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ATENOLOL; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURST FORMING UNIT E; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SMOKING;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; ERYTHROID PROGENITOR CELLS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYCYTHEMIA; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SMOKING;

EID: 0033949262     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.7.561     Document Type: Article

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