Lambda light chain myeloma presenting as nodular hepatic lesion: A clinical rarity
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Nodular extramedullary multiple myeloma: hepatic involvement presenting as hypervascular lesions on CT.
Dear Editor, Multiple myeloma (MM) presenting as nodular liver masses is rare in clinical practice and the literature published thus far has been limited to few reports and case series.1-9 In a retrospective review of more than 2000 patients, Talamo et al10 reported that only 9 cases where there was nodular involvement of the liver by MM, whereas in one autopsy study, nodular liver involvement ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0973-1482
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.131409