Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy (May 2024)

A VERY RARE RELAPS TYPE IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA: LEPTOMENGEAL AND CRANIAL INVOLVEMENT

  • orhan Ayyildiz,
  • Songul Beskisiz,
  • Abdullah Karakus

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46
p. 7

Abstract

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Case report: Multiple myeloma is a hematological malignancy that develops as a result of clonal proliferation of plasma cells and progresses with remissions and relapses. It is clinically characterized by many symptoms and signs such as osteolytic bone lesions, hypercalcemia, renal dysfunction, hypergammaglobulinemia and anemia. However, involvement of the central nervous system, especially the leptomeningeal/cranial region, is a rare and prognostically important form of relapse of the disease. Nervous syste