title: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and lymphoma: bone marrow examination and other diagnostic tests.
abstract: In a prospective study of patients with different forms of motor neuron disease, we performed bone marrow biopsy to evaluate the possibility that the patient might have an otherwise asymptomatic lymphoma. By the time 37 patients had been studied, two patients had been found to have lymphoma, one with and one without paraproteinemia.
authors.affiliation: Eleanor & Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Center, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Rowland
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Sherman
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Latov
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: McDonald
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Younger
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Hays
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Knowles
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D001856:Bone Marrow Examination; D006801:Humans; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D010265:Paraproteinemias / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology