Medicina (Jul 2024)

A Representation of Metastatic Plasma Cell Myeloma as an Uncommonly Shaped Liver Tumor—A Case Report

  • Tomasz Skołozdrzy,
  • Jan Wojciechowski,
  • Mateusz Gural,
  • Agata Kaniewska,
  • Maciej Miernik,
  • Maciej Romanowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina60081237
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 60, no. 8
p. 1237

Abstract

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The presence of an oval-shaped lesion in the liver is mainly associated with either primary liver cancer or metastatic disease from another malignancy. However, we present the case of a 62-year-old patient diagnosed with plasma cell myeloma, which reveals that these kinds of lesions can also be found during the course of this disease. Rarity and non-specificity make this a very challenging diagnosis for radiologists. It involves a special alert from the doctors taking care of the patient. Biopsy may sometimes be necessary to make a correct diagnosis. It is significant to ensure that the correct treatment is implemented and that the patient is not exposed to the unnecessary diagnosis of another neoplastic disease.

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