Extramedullary Plasmacytoma: A Diagnostic Challenge
Journal Title: People's Journal of Scientific Research. - Year 2015, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells. Myeloma. Multiple Myeloma involves skeletal system at multiple sites while solitary myeloma is a single focus of proliferation of plasma cells. Solitary myeloma can be present in bone or may have a soft tissue origin. Solitary myeloma of soft tissues is known as extramedullary plasmacytoma. Just as lymphomas or leukemias, multiple myeloma is a very common type of blood cancer with the incidence of one in every one hundred and fifty persons. But in contrast to this solitary myeloma and that too of soft tissue origin is a very rare clinical manifestation with an incidence of one in a million. Here is a case presentation of a soft tissue solitary myeloma or extramedullary plasmacytoma.
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Sonu Shukla
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