%0 Journal Article
%T Duodenal biopsy: an unexpected confirmatory test for a patient with al-amyloidosis
%A D. D. Dikowita
%A G. Selvaratnam
%A S. Pirasath
%A T. Kumanan
%A V. Sujanitha
%J Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine
%D 2019
%R 10.4038/sljm.v28i1.101
%X SSystemic AL- amyloidosis is a disorder of protein folding in which there is extra-cellular accumulation as ¦Â pleated fibrillar deposits of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain fragments. AL- amyloidosis is a rare clinical entity. A presentation with clinical and histological evidence of gastrointestinal amyloidosis is even rare. Here we report primary AL- amyloidosis secondary to lamda (¦Ë) light chain myeloma in a middle-aged woman who presented with nephrotic syndrome and motor peripheral neuropathy
%U https://sljm.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/sljm.v28i1.101/