Macroglobulinaemia and intestinal lymphangiectasia: a rare association
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Macroglobulinaemia and intestinal lymphangiectasia: a rare association.
Two cases in which macroglobulinaemia was associated with intestinal lymphangiectasia are recorded. Immunoperoxidase stains demonstrated a high content of monoclonal IgM in the intestinal lymph. The seven previously recorded examples of this association are reviewed. It is concluded that the concurrence of these two conditions is not merely fortuitous, and that increased viscosity of the lymph ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.36.1.30