Improved accuracy of discrimination between IgM Multiple Myeloma and Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia by testing for MYD88 L265P mutations

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 902-904

  Willenbacher, Wolfgang ^a   Willenbacher, Ella ^a   Brunner, Andrea ^b   Manzl, Claudia ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; IgM Myeloma; MYD88; Paraproteinaemia; Waldenstr m Macroglobulinaemia

Indexed keywords

MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M MULTIPLE MYELOMA; LETTER; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYD88 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUTATION; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 84878520572     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12313     Document Type: Letter

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