BACKGROUND Light chain(AL)amyloidosis is a plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by the pathologic production and extracellular tissue deposition of fibrillar proteins derived from immunoglobulin AL fragments secreted by a clone of plasma cells,which leads to progressive dysfunction of the affected organs....
Myeloma is an accumulation of malfunctioning or "cancerous" plasma cells (plasma cell neoplasms, or a bone marrow dyscrasia). Canceris a group of disorders characterized by transformation of normal cells to abnormal cells that grow and multiply uncontrollably. The net effect is the appearance of ...
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