Successful treatment with rituximab and thalidomide of POEMS syndrome associated with Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 101-104

  Kawano, Yawara ^a   Nakama, Tatsuya ^a   Hata, Hiroyuki ^a   Kimura, En ^a   Maruyoshi, Natsue ^b   Uchino, Makoto ^a   Mitsuya, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

IgM type M proteinemia; Macroglobulinemia; POEMS syndrome; Rituximab; Thalidomide

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYELIN; RITUXIMAB; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DEGENERATION; DEMYELINATION; EDEMA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTRICHOSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; LIGHT CHAIN; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POEMS SYNDROME; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LYMPHOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POEMS SYNDROME; THALIDOMIDE; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 77956665869     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.06.023     Document Type: Article

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