✦ LIBER ✦

Multiple myeloma: A patient with unusual features including intracranial and meningeal involvement, testicular involvement, organomegaly, and plasma cell leukemia

✍ Scribed by Turhal, Nazim; Henehan, M. Deirdre; Kaplan, Karen L.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 321 KB
Volume: 57
Category: Article
ISSN: 0361-8609
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8652(199801)57:1<51::aid-ajh9>3.0.co;2-0

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A 27-year-old Chinese male presented with multiple myeloma. Over his 18-month course he manifested a number of unusual features of his disease including his young age, marked organomegaly, a testicular plasmacytoma, multiple intracranial extraskeletal plasmacytomas and meningeal involvement, and peripheral blood plasmacytosis. The case is described and recent literature on these rare manifestations is reviewed.