Myelomatous pleural effusion - Thoracoscopic evaluation of a rare entity

Multiple myeloma is a malignant neoplasm of plasma cell origin that mainly affects bone marrow and skeletal system, producing large amount of light chain immunoglobulins. Pleural involvement in multiple myeloma is a rare complication which carries very poor prognosis. We report a case of multiple my...

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Autores principales: Patil, Chetan B, Gupta, Neeraj, Gupta, Rakesh C, Dixit, Ramakant, Gupta, Ankur, Indushekar, Varna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26628771
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.164176
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author Patil, Chetan B
Gupta, Neeraj
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Dixit, Ramakant
Gupta, Ankur
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description Multiple myeloma is a malignant neoplasm of plasma cell origin that mainly affects bone marrow and skeletal system, producing large amount of light chain immunoglobulins. Pleural involvement in multiple myeloma is a rare complication which carries very poor prognosis. We report a case of multiple myeloma who presented with recurrent pleural effusion that was evaluated by means of thoracoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-45870112015-12-01 Myelomatous pleural effusion - Thoracoscopic evaluation of a rare entity Patil, Chetan B Gupta, Neeraj Gupta, Rakesh C Dixit, Ramakant Gupta, Ankur Indushekar, Varna Lung India Case Report Multiple myeloma is a malignant neoplasm of plasma cell origin that mainly affects bone marrow and skeletal system, producing large amount of light chain immunoglobulins. Pleural involvement in multiple myeloma is a rare complication which carries very poor prognosis. We report a case of multiple myeloma who presented with recurrent pleural effusion that was evaluated by means of thoracoscopy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4587011/ /pubmed/26628771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.164176 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Myelomatous pleural effusion - Thoracoscopic evaluation of a rare entity
title_full_unstemmed Myelomatous pleural effusion - Thoracoscopic evaluation of a rare entity
title_short Myelomatous pleural effusion - Thoracoscopic evaluation of a rare entity
title_sort myelomatous pleural effusion - thoracoscopic evaluation of a rare entity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587011/
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