David M. Menke

TL;DR: The proposed consensus criteria will facilitate consistent diagnosis, appropriate treatment, and collaborative research and exclude infectious, malignant, and autoimmune disorders that can mimic iMCD.

TL;DR: Tissue sections from 93 patients with mastocytosis were stained with antitryptase antibody G3, and tryptase, Giemsa, and CAE produced diagnostic staining of MCs in virtually all cases of systemic indolent mastocyTosis, urticaria pigmentosa, and solitary skinmastocytoma.

TL;DR: A 52-year-old man presented to his primary care physician complaining of a painless mass in the left elbow that had slowly enlarged over a 2-year period, and when pressure was applied to the mass, the patient experienced "electrical shocks" that radiated to the left hand.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that CD represents a spectrum of disease that can be differentiated by simple prognostic factors that provide a framework for further study.

TL;DR: Localized deposition of amyloid may occur in individual organs, in the absence of systemic involvement as discussed by the authors, but the reason for localized deposition is unknown, but it is hypothesized that deposits result from local synthesis of amylloid protein, rather than the deposition of light chains produced elsewhere.