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POEMS Syndrome

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Crow-Fukase syndrome, Takatsuki disease or PEP syndrome

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Is a rare medical syndrome named for its main clinically recognizable features: Polyneuropathy (peripheral nerve damage), Organomegaly (abnormal enlargement of organs), Endocrinopathy (damage to hormone-producing glands)/Edema, M-protein (a monoclonal immunoglobulin produced by plasma cells) and Skin abnormalities, such as hyperpigmentation and hypertrichosis.

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  1. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Manfred Schwab

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  1. Abt. Tumorgenetik, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

    Manfred Schwab

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Schwab, M. (2014). POEMS Syndrome. In: Schwab, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_4652-2

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