Poems Syndrome and Disease Produced by Other Monoclonal IGs. [Review]

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Cook, G.
Rovira, M.

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Cook, Gordon
McCullagh, Helen
Burton, Cathy
Campbell, Fiona

LTHT Department

Leeds Cancer Centre
Children's Neurosciences
Haematology
Children & Young People's Diabetes

Non Medic

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2024

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Review

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POEMS syndrome (acronym of: polyradiculoneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathies, monoclonal protein and dermopathy/skin) is a rare multisystemic disease due to an underlying plasma cell neoplasm. The pathogenesis of the syndrome is not well understood. Other names of the POEMS syndrome that are less frequently used are osteosclerotic myeloma, Takatsuki syndrome, or Crow-Fukase syndrome.

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