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The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
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Letter to the Editor

Clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological features of localized immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis in the gastrointestinal tract

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Pages 254-256 | Received 05 Jun 2015, Accepted 20 Jul 2015, Published online: 24 Sep 2015

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