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Extensive haemorrhagic-bullous skin manifestation of systemic AA-amyloidosis associated with Iglmyeloma Volume 10, numéro 2, March 2000

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Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Leipziger Stasse 44, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany. Jens-Uwe.Grundmann@medizin. uni-magdeburg.de
  • Page(s) : 139-42
  • Année de parution : 2000

The amyloidoses represent a heterogenous group of rare diseases characterized by extracellular fibrillar protein deposits which have in common a typical green birefringence in polarized light after congo red staining [1, 2]. Immunohistology allows the discrimination of various forms of amyloid which are designated with regard to the major biochemical component by acronyms (Table I) [3-9]. Alzheimer's disease as well as the spectrum of [...]