Dyspnea and pleural effusion as presenting clinical manifestations of multiple myeloma.

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Department of Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-lsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Published: February 2009

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