Paraproteins: A regional south Australian experience

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-195

  Roberts Thomson, Peter J ^a   Nikoloutsopoulos, Tony ^a   Smith, Anthony J ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARAPROTEIN;

AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GAMMOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMACYTOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; REGIONALIZATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEX RATIO; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CRYOGLOBULINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PARAPROTEINS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 0036771379     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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