A Rare Masquerader of Lung Cancer: Nonsecretory Multiple Myeloma with Plasmacytoma of Bone Presenting as Acute Kidney Injury
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplasm of B cell lineage characterized by excessive proliferation of abnormal plasma cells which produce immunglobulins. If a monoclonal spike is not found in serum or urine but the patient has clinical findings and bone marrow plasma cell infiltration suggestive of MM,...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Internal Medicine 2010, Vol.49(19), pp.2133-2135 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplasm of B cell lineage characterized by excessive proliferation of abnormal plasma cells which produce immunglobulins. If a monoclonal spike is not found in serum or urine but the patient has clinical findings and bone marrow plasma cell infiltration suggestive of MM, then the patient may have a rare subtype known as nonsecretory multiple myeloma (NSMM). Here, we describe a rare case of NSMM with plasmacytoma of bone who presented with severe hypercalcemia, acute kidney injury and a large thoracal mass on chest X-ray masquerading as lung cancer. |
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ISSN: | 0918-2918 1349-7235 1349-7235 |
DOI: | 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3709 |