Author(s): Economopoulos T, Economidou J, Papageorgiou E, Dervenoulas J, Christodoulides C, et al.
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.
Referred From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2917205
Author(s): Cesana C, Klersy C, Barbarano L, Nosari AM, Crugnola M, et al.
Author(s): Duhrsen U, Uppenkamp M, Meusers P, König E, Brittinger G
