POEMS and Crow-Fukase syndrome: two cases giving rise to more questions about plasma cell dyscrasias.
Two cases of POEMS and Crow-Fukase syndrome are reported. We focused our attention on the problems recently debated in the literature regarding POEMS and osteosclerotic myeloma, the pathogenetic mechanisms of the clinical symptoms in these syndromes and the problems of their classification among plasma cell dyscrasias with polyneuropathy.
Bonanni
F
F
2nd Division of Internal Medicine, Santa Corona Hospital, Pietra Ligure, Italy.
Rattenni
S
S
Mela
D
D
Goretti
R
R
Ricciardi
S
S
Marenco
G
G
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016878:POEMS Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D010265:Paraproteinemias / Q000209:etiology*