Amyloidosis: Five Cases of Primary Generalized Amyloidosis and Some Other Unusual Cases
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Amyloidosis; five cases of primary generalized amyloidosis and some other unusual cases.
A conception of amyloidosis as merely a complication of chronic syphilitic, tuberculous or septic disease of bones and joints or of chronic intrathoracic sepsis is no longer adequate. This older view has had to be modified as the association of amyloidosis with other diseases came to be recognized: the predisposing diseases are now known to include rheumatic and rheumatoid affections, myelomato...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.9.3.212