Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis (Jan 2014)

Multiple myeloma presenting as thoracic plasmacytoma – Two rare cases

  • Rama Saha,
  • Aruna Bhattacharya,
  • Joydip Deb,
  • Pamela Nayak,
  • Bhaswati Das

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcdt.2013.10.008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 63, no. 1
pp. 267 – 271

Abstract

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Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal proliferation of plasma cells with multiple osteolytic lesions. Multiple myeloma in the thorax is relatively uncommon. Hereby, we present 2 cases of multiple myeloma involving the thorax (1) in a 55 years old nonsmoker, female (2) and in a 45-years-old, smoker, male.

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