Pulmonary and nodal multiple myeloma with a pleural effusion mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma | Zendy

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Pulmonary and nodal multiple myeloma with a pleural effusion mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma

Author(s) -

Roli Kushwaha,

Sanjay Kumar Verma,

Sumit Mehra,

Rajendra Prasad

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

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.

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