| Literature DB >> 2917205 |
T Economopoulos1, J Economidou, E Papageorgiou, J Dervenoulas, C Christodoulides, V Pappa, D Karakassis, C Terzoglou, S Athanassiadou, G Chalevelakis.
Abstract
The incidence of monoclonal gammopathy in 61 patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) was studied. The distribution of patients among the CMPD subgroups was: chronic myelocytic leukemia, 24 patients; myelofibrosis, 11; polycythemia vera, 15; essential thrombocythemia, 7; unclassified MPD, 4 patients. Monoclonal gammopathy was found in 5 patients (8.2%). Two of these patients (1 IgA/k and 1 IgM/k) had myelofibrosis and 3 (2 IgG/k and 1 IgG/lambda) polycythemia vera. The presence of monoclonal gammopathy indicates an involvement of the lymphoplasmatic system in CMPD.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2917205 DOI: 10.1007/BF00320228
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Blut ISSN: 0006-5242