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PARAPROTEINS

Emergency immunoglobulins synthesised by atypical cells of the reticuloendothelial system. Paraproteins containing only easy chains lead to bence jones paraproteinaemia, while the presence of only atypical hard chains leads to hard chain malady. most of the paraproteins show themselves as an m-component (monoclonal gammopathy) in electrophoresis. Diclonal and polyclonal paraproteins are many smaller frequently encountered.
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