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Multiple myeloma presenting as eosinophilic pleural effusion
Author(s) -
MEHTA Asmita A,
VENKATAKRISHNAN Rajesh,
JOSE Wesley,
PALANIAPPAN Muthu,
PAVITHRAN Keechilat
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
asia‐pacific journal of clinical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1743-7563
pISSN - 1743-7555
DOI - 10.1111/j.1743-7563.2010.01324.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pleural effusion , multiple myeloma , eosinophilic , eosinophilia , pathology , biopsy , effusion , bone marrow , cytology , radiology , surgery
An elderly man, with no comorbidity, presented with rapidly accumulating left pleural effusion. He also had generalized adenopathy. Pleural fluid cytology showed exudative pleural effusion with eosinophilia. Supraclavicular lymph node biopsy was reported as amyloid. On further investigation he was found to have kappa‐light chain multiple myeloma. The final diagnosis was eosinophilic pleural effusion in a patient with multiple myeloma.