Metastatic extramedullary plasmacytoma: A case report and review of the literature of a rare pseudocarcinoma

✍ Scribed by Hideki Akiyama; Robert L. Krigel

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 333 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0361-8609
• DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830270209

✦ Synopsis

Extramedullary plasmacytomas are unusual plasma cell tumors arlslng outside the bone marrow. Most extramedullary plasmacytomas are solitary, but occasionally they dlrrrcminate, usually in conjunctlon with systemic myelomatosis. The authors report a case of disseminated extramedullary plasmacytoma with a picture suggestive of metastatic pancreatlc carcinoma. This unurual presentation reconflrms the need for tissue diagnosis in all suspected cases of pancreatic carcinoma and demonstrates that extramedullary plasmacytoma can be an aggressive cancer without any sign of osseous or systemic disease.