TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Amyloidosis A1 - Lichtman, Marshall A. A1 - Kaushansky, Kenneth A1 - Prchal, Josef T. A1 - Levi, Marcel M. A1 - Burns, Linda J. A1 - Armitage, James O. PY - 2017 T2 - Williams Manual of Hematology, 9e AB - Amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by tissue infiltration with misfolded protein precursors.The term amyloid is used to describe a substance with a homogeneous eosinophilic appearance by light microscopy, a green birefringence on polarizing light microscopy, and a characteristic β-pleated sheet appearance by x-ray diffraction.Terms such as primary, secondary, senile, dialysis-associated, and myeloma-associated have been abandoned in favor of the etiologically based, chemical terminology (Table 71–1) (eg, immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis is termed AL amyloidosis). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/13 UR - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1133365486 ER -