Reversible paraparesis in multiple myeloma with renal failure
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Multiple myeloma presented as acute renal failure
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell dyscrasia and it most often occurs in old age adults. The mean age of the patients at diagnosis is 66 years old and only few percent of patients are younger than 40 years old (1,2). At the time of diagnosis, about 3% of MM patients have no M-protein in their serum or urine, based on immunofixation method (1-3). Approximately 50% of MM patients have at leas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl086