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Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature

BACKGROUND: Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare plasma cell neoplasm of soft tissue without bone marrow involvement or other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma CASE PRESENTATION: A 42 year-old woman presented with intermittent dry cough of 10 months duration. Her breathing sound wa...

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Autores principales: Luh, Shi-Ping, Lai, Yih-Shyong, Tsai, Chung-Hong, Tsao, Thomas Chang-Yao
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2186338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17963517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-123
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author Luh, Shi-Ping
Lai, Yih-Shyong
Tsai, Chung-Hong
Tsao, Thomas Chang-Yao
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description BACKGROUND: Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare plasma cell neoplasm of soft tissue without bone marrow involvement or other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma CASE PRESENTATION: A 42 year-old woman presented with intermittent dry cough of 10 months duration. Her breathing sound was slightly coarse without rales or rhonchi on auscultation. CT scan revealed a right anterior mediastinal shadow with multiple pulmonary nodular lesions. A video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was performed. Histopathology showed it to be a myeloma. CONCLUSION: This is the first presentation of EMP with a mediastinal mass with multiple pulmonary nodules.
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spelling pubmed-21863382008-01-10 Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature Luh, Shi-Ping Lai, Yih-Shyong Tsai, Chung-Hong Tsao, Thomas Chang-Yao World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare plasma cell neoplasm of soft tissue without bone marrow involvement or other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma CASE PRESENTATION: A 42 year-old woman presented with intermittent dry cough of 10 months duration. Her breathing sound was slightly coarse without rales or rhonchi on auscultation. CT scan revealed a right anterior mediastinal shadow with multiple pulmonary nodular lesions. A video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was performed. Histopathology showed it to be a myeloma. CONCLUSION: This is the first presentation of EMP with a mediastinal mass with multiple pulmonary nodules. BioMed Central 2007-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2186338/ /pubmed/17963517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-123 Text en Copyright © 2007 Luh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lai, Yih-Shyong
Tsai, Chung-Hong
Tsao, Thomas Chang-Yao
Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
title Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
title_full Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
title_fullStr Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
title_short Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
title_sort extramedullary plasmacytoma (emp): report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2186338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17963517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-123
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