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From a clinical point of view Brouet’s classification of cryoglobulinemias, so widely accepted, has several limitations particularly because it cannot have a nosological meaning and also because of some technical aspects; in effect some cryoglobulins cannot be easily immunochemically classified: for example there are cryoglobulins consisting exclusively of polyclonal IgM or IgG [7]. But in order to discuss the problem of the classification of cryoglobulinemias we will present our case series; this collects also patients seen by Dr. M. Galli in the Clinic of Infectious Diseases of the University of Milan and by Dr. G. Monti in the Hospital of Saronno.
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Zanussi, C., Invernizzi, F., Meroni, P.L. (1986). Classification of Cryoglobulinemias. In: Ponticelli, C., Minetti, L., D’Amico, G. (eds) Antiglobulins, cryoglobulins and glomerulonephritis. Developments in Nephrology, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4289-9_9
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