As white as ivory: sclerotic vertebra in POEMS syndrome

Lancet. 2017 Jun 3;389(10085):2261-2262. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31374-0.

Authors

Konstantinos Liapis¹, Sophia Vlachou², Athina Markou², Georgios Kakiopoulos³, Theodora Kounadi², Nikolaos I Anagnostopoulos⁴, George P Piaditis²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Haematology, Georgios Gennimatas Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre, Georgios Gennimatas Hospital, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Pathology, Georgios Gennimatas Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Department of Clinical Haematology, Georgios Gennimatas Hospital, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 28589896
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31374-0

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Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Diabetes Mellitus
Diagnosis, Differential*
Estradiol / blood
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
POEMS Syndrome / complications*
POEMS Syndrome / diagnosis*
POEMS Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
Plasmacytoma / pathology
Skin Pigmentation
Spinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Thoracic Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A / analysis
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A / blood
Weight Loss

Substances

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
Estradiol