ABSTRACT
Se presentó un paciente con los diagnósticos de bronconeumonía bacteriana extrahospitalaria y anemia para estudio. Se describen la evolución clínica, los estudios imagenológicos, de laboratorio e histológicos que permitieron diagnosticar la presencia de un mieloma múltiple con plasmocitoma extramedular cutáneo abscedado.
A patient with a diagnosis of community-acquired bacterial bronchopneumonia and anemia was presented for study. We describe his clinical course, the imaging, laboratory and histological studies are described. They allowed diagnose the presence of multiple myeloma with abscessed cutaneous extramedullary plasmacytoma.
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Humans , Plasmacytoma/secondary , Buttocks , Multiple Myeloma/complicationsABSTRACT
Cutaneous involvement associated to multiple myeloma varies from 5 to 10% of cases and is infrequently recognized. Cutaneous metastatic plasmacitomas are rare. We present the case of a 72-year-old man with multiple myeloma in complete remission since 2 years ago with cutaneous tumors on the trunk and face. A cutaneous biopsy was consistent with plasmacytoma. The patient was treated with melphalan, prednisolone and radiotherapy. Despite optimal therapeutic response of the lesions, the disease progressed, with the appearance of new extra-cutaneous plasmocytomas. The cutaneous metastatic plasmocytomas were the first sign of progression of the disease.
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Humans , Male , Aged , Plasmacytoma/secondary , Skin Neoplasms/secondary , Multiple Myeloma/pathology , Skin/pathology , Biopsy , Bone Marrow/pathology , Immunohistochemistry , Disease ProgressionABSTRACT
Se comunica una observación de PEM con localización inicial rinofaringea sucesivamente extendida a cabeza de páncreas y a la duramadre dorsal luego de 20 y 26 meses respectivamente del diagnóstico inicial. El paciente vive luego de 6 años de terapia combinada. Se discuten las características de estos tumores con respecto a los hallazgos bibliográficos