Plasma Cell Neoplasms A Morphologic, Cytogenetic and Immunophenotypic Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Linden, Michael A. (Editor), McKenna, Robert W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review on the field of diagnostic hematopathology as it is applied to patients with plasma cell neoplasms. The book places particular emphasis on immunophenotypic data – immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry – as well as cytogenetics, and disc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Protein studies
• Electrophoresis and immunofixation
• Serum free light chain analysis
• Morphology and immunohistochemistry of normal and neoplastic plasma cells
• Classification of plasma cell neoplasms
• Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
• Plasma cell myeloma
• Plasmacytoma – solitary and extraosseus
• Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition diseases
• Cytogenetics
• Flow cytometry
• Integration of laboratory and clinical data into synoptic report
• Approaches to treatment, including stem cell transplant
• Conclusions
• References.