Maria M. Picken • Ahmet Dogan
Guillermo A. Herrera
Editors

2012

Surgical Pathology
and Clinical Correlations

Amyloidosis, although known since the nineteenth century, retained for a long time the aura of a rare and obscure disease that was mainly of purely academic interest. This perception was augmented by the fact that the disease was only ever diagnosed once it had progressed to an advanced stage and because no effective therapies were available for its treatment.