Two M-components in a single cell lineage in a patient with a dual isotype secretory B-cell tumour

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 791-794

  Sakashita, Chizuko ^a   Saito, Takako ^a   Kurosu, Tetsuya ^a   Yoshinaga, Haruhiko ^a   Kumagai, Takasi ^a   Yamamoto, Koh ^a   Miki, Tohru ^a   Koyama, Takatoshi ^a   Miura, Osamu ^a   Nemoto, Tetsuo ^a   Asakawa, Hideo ^a   Hirosawa, Shinsaku ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biclonal gammopathy; Clonality; Isotypic variants; Multiple myeloma; Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL LINE; CLONE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINEAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, LIGHT CHAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 7344228473     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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