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
Hauptverfasser: Guney, Ibrahim, Solak, Yalcin, Atalay, Huseyin, Altintepe, Lutfullah, Tonbul, H. Zeki
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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.
ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
1349-7235
DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3709