Diagnosis of Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
- 4 August 2011
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 365 (5), 474-475
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1106428
Abstract
Smoldering myeloma is diagnosed in patients with bone-marrow plasmacytosis (>10%) in the absence of other stigmata of myeloma. However, in a small subset of these patients, the number of plasma cells exceeds 60%, with rapid progression to myeloma.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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