Kahler's disease

Introduction: Kahler's disease

Description of Kahler's disease

Kahler's disease: A bone marrow-based plasma cell neoplasm characterized by a serum monoclonal protein and skeletal destruction with osteolytic lesions, pathological fractures, bone pain, hypercalcemia, and anemia. Clinical variants include non-secretory myeloma, smoldering myeloma, indolent myeloma, and plasma cell leukemia. (WHO, 2001) -- 2003
Source: Diseases Database

Kahler's disease: Rare Disease

Ophanet

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Kahler's disease as a "rare disease".

Source - Orphanet

Terms associated with Kahler's disease:

Terms Similar to Kahler's disease:

• Multiple myeloma
• Plasma cell tumors
• Plasmacytoma
• Myeloma

Source: Diseases Database

External links related to: Kahler's disease

• Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma (Cochrane Review)
• plasma cell myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Kahler's disease (www.whonamedit.com)
• National Cancer Institute - Multiple Myeloma Treatment
• Plasma cell myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Multiple Myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• multiple myeloma
• Plasmacytoma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Multiple myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Multiple Myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• eMedicine - Myeloma : Article by Seema S Rizvi, MD
• eMedicine - Multiple Myeloma : Article by Steven M Sorenson, MD
• Multiple Myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• National Cancer Institute - Multiple Myeloma Treatment
• multiple myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Early versus deferred treatment for early stage multiple myeloma (Cochrane Review)
• eMedicine - Multiple Myeloma : Article by Sara Grethlein, MD
• multiple myeloma - General Practice Notebook
• plasmacytoma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files
• Multiple Myeloma - MedPix™ Medical Image Database and Teaching Files

Source: Diseases Database

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