Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance
Nelson Leung1, Frank Bridoux1, Samih H Nasr1
1From the Divisions of Nephrology and Hypertension and of Hematology (N.L.) and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (S.H.N.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; and Department of Nephrology and Centre d'Investigation Clinique INSERM 1402, Centre de Référence Amylose AL et Autres Maladies par Dépôt d'Immunoglobulines Monoclonales, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR7276, Université de Limoges, Limoges - all in France (F.B.).
The New England Journal of Medicine
|May 19, 2021
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