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Endomyocardial biopsy with co-localization of a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma and AL amyloidosis.
Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology - 1 Jan 2000
Leguit Roos J, Vink Aryan, de Jonge Nicolaas, Minnema Monique C, Oerlemans Marish I F
Abstract excerpt
In about 4% of cases, amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis is due to an underlying lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) or other monoclonal protein forming low-grade B-cell lymphoma, instead of a plasma cell neoplasm. We report an unusual case of a 55-year-old male with co-localization of an IgG positive LPL and AL amyloidosis in his endomyocardial biopsy (EMB). The patient was diagnosed 4 years earlier with a low...
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