Open AccessPulmonary and nodal multiple myeloma with a pleural effusion mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma
Author(s) -
Ramesh Kumar Kushwaha,
Sanjeev Verma,
Sumit Mehra,
Rajendra Prasad
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.59915
Subject(s) - medicine , multiple myeloma , plasmacytoma , malignancy , pleural effusion , bronchogenic carcinoma , pathology , plasma cell dyscrasia , bone marrow , plasma cell neoplasm , plasma cell , radiology , carcinoma , antibody , immunoglobulin light chain , immunology
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy characterized by the occurrence of plasma cell tumor within the bone marrow. Extramedullary plasmacytomas form a small percentage of plasma cell tumors, and although 80-90% of extramedullary lesions occur in the head and neck, pulmonary plasmacytomas are found to be a very uncommon clinical entity. Hereby, we describe a case of a patient with pulmonary plasmacytoma, who developed nodal and pulmonary MM with a pleural effusion, the radiological appearance of which mimicked bronchogenic carcinoma.