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Abdominal subcutaneous fat aspiration--an alternative method to diagnose amyloidosis
1Department of Medicine, Hospital Selayang, Lebuhraya Kepong-Selayang, 68100 Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia.
Abstract:
A middle aged lady presented with clinical manifestations of primary amyloidosis which included amyloid cardiomyopathy. There was failure to confirm the diagnosis of amyloidosis with biopsies from rectal and tongue tissues. Fat tissue obtained from abdominal subcutaneous fat aspiration eventually demonstrated the presence of amyloid.
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