title: Multiple myeloma occurring in association with a preexisting neuromuscular disease (progressive muscular dystrophy). A chance occurrence or a nosological entity?
abstract: This paper describes 3 patients with progressive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy who many years after this disorder was diagnosed were found to have a monoclonal gammopathy. The authors examine whether this was a fortuitous occurrence together of two rare disorders or whether they might be causally related. So far no other similar cases have been reported in the literature.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000150:complications*; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology