Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and paraproteinemia
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 32 (8), 896
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.32.8.896
Abstract
A patient with ALS had an IgG kappa monoclonal gammopathy. This raises the possibility that monoclonal paraproteins may sometimes play a role in the etiology of motor neuron disease.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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