Comment on “Clinical Comparisons of Two Free Light Chain Assays to Immunofixation Electrophoresis for Detecting Monoclonal Gammopathy”

Table 1

Publications reporting detection of LCMM patients with Freelite.

Study (year)	Patient numbers			ratio abnormal
Bradwell et al. 2003 [9]	224	123	101	100%
Drayson et al. 2009 [10]	223	NA	NA	100%
van Rhee et al. 2007 [11]	49	NA	NA	100%
Kraj et al. 2011 [12]	37	21	16	100%
Abraham et al. 2002 [13]	28	9	19	100%
Avet-Loiseau et al. 2011 [14, 15]	25	14	11	100%
Kang et al. 2005 [16]	23	14	9	100%
Nowrousian et al. 2005 [17]	17	NA	NA	100%
Hutchison et al. 2008 [18]	13	5	8	100%
Mösbauer et al. 2007 [19]	9	5	4	100%
Piehler et al. 2008 [20]	7	4	3	100%
Harding et al. 2009 [21]	7	4	3	100%
Lebovic et al. 2007 [22]	7	3	4	100%
Giarin et al. 2006 [23]	6	NA	NA	100%
Wolff et al. 2007 [24]	5	NA	NA	100%
Dogaru et al. 2011 [25]	2	0	2	100%