Pathologic Fracture of Odontoid Process Secondary to Amyloid Deposition
1981
Immunocyte dyscrasias have increasingly been reported in patients with gammopathy-associated systemic amyloidosis. In “primary” amyloidosis, deposits occur in heart, smooth and skeletal muscle, bones and joints, skin, lungs and peripheral nerves. The formation of amyloid fibrils appears related to the lambda light chains in these monoclonal gammopathies.
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