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Plasma cell neoplasm involving the thyroid
Author(s) -
Shimaoka K.,
Gailani S.,
Tsukada Y.,
Barcos M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197803)41:3<1140::aid-cncr2820410351>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - medicine , neoplasm , thyroid , plasma cell neoplasm , pathology , oncology , plasmacytoma , multiple myeloma
Involvement of the thyroid gland by plasma cell neoplasms is very rare. On review of 248 cases, we found 4 cases in which pathological evidence of plasms cell neoplasm in the thyroid was verified. This was a heterogeneous group of patients; the thyroid involvement was clinically recognized as a site of extramedullary plasma cell neoplasm in one patient and as a part of generalized disease in two patients. In another patient with generalized disease, the thyroid involvement was discovered at autopsy.