POEMS syndrome: Failure of newly suggested diagnostic criteria to anticipate the development of the syndrome

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 316-318

  Yishay, Ofran ^a   Eran, Elinav ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NERVE BIOPSY; NEURITIS; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PLASMA CELL; PLASMACYTOMA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SPLENOMEGALY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VASCULITIS;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; POEMS SYNDROME; POLYNEUROPATHIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 23244436769     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.20384     Document Type: Review

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