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Transplant patients are prone to develop B cell lymphomas with a frequency increased by “high-dose” immunosuppressive regimens. Some studies suggest that transplant patients should be carefully screened to detect the occurrence of serum monoclonal immunoglobulins (moIg) which could be the first step of a patent immunoproliferative disorder.
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Touchard, G. et al. (1996). Serum monoclonal immunoglobulins in renal transplant recipients: A study using high resolution electrophoresis and western blotting. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Cancer in Transplantation: Prevention and Treatment. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0175-9_27
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