POEMS SYNDROME, ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS AND THROMBOCYTHEMIA

Authors
ZENONE T BASTION Y SALLES G RIEUX C MOREL D FELDMAN P ESPINOUSE D BRYON PA COIFFIER B
Citation
T. Zenone et al., POEMS SYNDROME, ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS AND THROMBOCYTHEMIA, Journal of internal medicine, 240(2), 1996, pp. 107-109
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Journal of internal medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
09546820
Volume
240
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
107 - 109
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-6820(1996)240:2<107:PSATAT>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The case of a 22-year-old man with polyneuropathy, endocrinopathy, ski n change and monoclonal gammopathy of IgG-lambda type is described. Th ere was no solitary plasmocytoma, osteosclerotic myeloma or Castleman' s disease. However, significant thrombocytosis occurred and the patien t developed arterial thrombosis, these were attributed to essential th rombocythaemia in the absence of other aetiological factors.