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How reliable are blood tests that look for monoclonal gammopathy in elevated imm levels ? are false negatives possible?
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Very: the testing for gammoparhy at at the present time is very sensitive. The means by how this gets measured and analyzed is so sensitive that I can t out all of the different Antibody types.
Answered 7/27/2014
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