Globular hepatic amyloid: A diagnostic peculiarity that bears clinical significance

Human Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 845-849

  Agaram, Narasimhan ^a   Shia, Jinru ^a   Klimstra, David S ^a   Lau, Nancy ^a   Lin, Oscar ^a   Erlandson, Robert A ^a   Filippa, Daniel A ^a   Godwin, Thomas A ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular amyloid; Liver; Review

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; GLOBULAR HEPATIC AMYLOID; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY;

AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; INCLUSION BODIES; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 23444453715     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2005.05.010     Document Type: Article

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