Solitary plasmacytoma of temporal bone: A rare case report

Solitary plasmacytoma of base of skull is a rare disease. It presents with headache, swelling, and other vague symptoms. Systemic work-up to rule out multiple myeloma is necessary. Radiotherapy is the treatment of choice. We, here, present a case of solitary plasmacytoma of base of skull in right te...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ritesh, Kumar, Narendra, Mohindro, Sandeep, Radotra, B. D.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28413546
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.144193
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description Solitary plasmacytoma of base of skull is a rare disease. It presents with headache, swelling, and other vague symptoms. Systemic work-up to rule out multiple myeloma is necessary. Radiotherapy is the treatment of choice. We, here, present a case of solitary plasmacytoma of base of skull in right temporal bone in a 50-year-old female treated with surgery and radiotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-53798182017-04-14 Solitary plasmacytoma of temporal bone: A rare case report Kumar, Ritesh Kumar, Narendra Mohindro, Sandeep Radotra, B. D. Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Solitary plasmacytoma of base of skull is a rare disease. It presents with headache, swelling, and other vague symptoms. Systemic work-up to rule out multiple myeloma is necessary. Radiotherapy is the treatment of choice. We, here, present a case of solitary plasmacytoma of base of skull in right temporal bone in a 50-year-old female treated with surgery and radiotherapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5379818/ /pubmed/28413546 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.144193 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery 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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