A case of POEMS syndrome associated with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and treated with lenalidomide

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-189

  Furuta, Natsumi ^a   Tashiro, Yuichi ^a   Ikeda, Masaki ^a   Fujita, Yukio ^a   Okamoto, Koichi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lenalidomide; Lymphoplasmacytic cell; POEMS syndrome; Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF); Waldenstr m's macroglobulinemia

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 6; LENALIDOMIDE; SOLUBLE INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; JAPAN; LEG EDEMA; LIMB DYSESTHESIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PARESTHESIA; POEMS SYNDROME; POLYNEUROPATHY; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POEMS SYNDROME; THALIDOMIDE; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 84859758987     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.52.186     Document Type: Article

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