Gamma heavy chain disease simulating alpha chain disease.
A young Turkish girl presented with all the clinicopathological features of a digestive form of alpha chain disease. A gamma heavy chain disease protein, however, was found in her serum and also in the cells invading the intestinal mucosa and mesenteric lymph nodes.
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006362:Heavy Chain Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains / Q000032:analysis; D007137:Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains / Q000032:analysis; D007142:Immunoglobulin gamma-Chains / Q000032:analysis; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology
D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains; D007137:Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains; D007142:Immunoglobulin gamma-Chains