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Hypergammaglobulinemia in the pediatric population

Authors: Mindy S Lo, Robert P Sundel

Published in: Pediatric Rheumatology | Special Issue 1/2012

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Hypergammaglobulinemia in adult patients is usually related to malignancy, autoimmune disease, or infection. The differential diagnosis of hypergammaglobulinemia in children has not been similarly well defined. Malignancies and autoimmunity are much less common in children compared to the adult population, and therefore the implications of an elevated immunoglobulin in a pediatric patient are less clear. We therefore sought to establish the differential diagnosis of hypergammaglobulinemia in children through a retrospective cohort analysis. …

Title: Hypergammaglobulinemia in the pediatric population
Authors: Mindy S Lo
Robert P Sundel
Publication date: 01-07-2012
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Pediatric Rheumatology / Issue Special Issue 1/2012
Electronic ISSN: 1546-0096
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-10-S1-A111

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