• Amyloid · Mar 2022

    Tissue biopsy for the diagnosis of amyloidosis: experience from some centres.

    • Merrill D Benson, John L Berk, Angela Dispenzieri, Thibaud Damy, Julian D Gillmore, Bouke P Hazenberg, Francesca Lavatelli, Maria M Picken, Christoph Röcken, Stefan Schönland, Mitsuharu Ueda, and Per Westermark.
    • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
    • Amyloid. 2022 Mar 1; 29 (1): 8138-13.

    AbstractA reliable diagnosis of amyloidosis is usually based on a tissue biopsy. With increasing options for specific treatments of the different amyloid diseases, an exact and valid diagnosis including determination of the biochemical fibril nature is imperative. Biopsy sites as well as amyloid typing principles vary and this paper describes methods employed at some laboratories specialised in amyloidosis in Europe, Japan and USA.

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