Monoclonal cryoglobulinemia with extensive gangrene of all four extremities: A case report

Angiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 431-434

  Sanmugarajah, Jasotha ^a   Hussain, Shafkat ^a,b   Schwartz, Joel M ^a,b   Friedman, Sandor ^a,b  

^a State University of New York Health Science Center   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGLOBULIN; PARAPROTEIN;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CASE REPORT; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; GANGRENE; HUMAN; HYPERVISCOSITY SYNDROME; KIDNEY FAILURE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NEUROPATHY; PLASMACYTOMA;

EID: 0034111372     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970005100511     Document Type: Article

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