Laboratory investigation of monoclonal gammopathy during 10 years of screening in a general hospital.
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- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 40 (7) , 793-797
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.40.7.793
Abstract
Protein electrophoresis was carried out on 102,000 samples from the patients of a district general hospital over 10 years, and a monoclonal protein was detected in 730 cases; of these, 114 could be classified as B cell malignancies and 261 as monoclonal gammopathy of undefined significance (MGUS). The various clinical and laboratory features of monoclonal gammopathy were examined with respect to distinguishing the malignant conditions from MGUS at first presentation.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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