Multiple myeloma and related disorders /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Arnold,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- History of multiple myeloma
- Epidemiology and etiology of plasma cell neoplasms
- The immune system in myeloma
- Molecular biology and cytogenetics
- Biology of the malignant plasma cell
- Pathophysiology of myeloma bone disease
- Clinical features
- Hematologic investigations : morphologic and phenotypic features of myeloma marrow diagnosis
- Biochemical and immunological investigations
- The role of imaging in multiple myeloma
- Innovative approaches for diagnosis and monitoring
- Multiple myeloma : differential diagnosis and prognosis
- Principles of management
- Chemotherapy, steroids, and interferon
- Radiotherapy
- Autologous stem cell transplantation
- Allogeneic transplantation and treatment with donor lymphocytes
- Supportive care
- Biological basis of therapy : new molecular targets
- Immunotherapeutic approaches
- Management of bone disease
- Management of myeloma patients with renal failure
- Neurologic aspects of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, multiple myeloma, and related disorders
- Monoclonal gammopathies of undetermined significance : the transition from MGUS to myeloma
- Solitary bone and extramedullary plasmacytoma
- Plasma cell leukaemia
- AL amyloidosis
- Heavy-chain diseases
- Waldenström's disease