Plasma Cell Leukaemia Relapsing in the Dermis

Plasma cell leukaemia relapsing in the dermis.

Meningeal plasma cell granuloma with relapsing polychondritis

and progressive inflammatory disease with multisystem involvement, which is presumed to have an autoimmune cause.16,20,21,26 Relapsing polychondritis affects the cartilage in multiple organs, such as the nose, ear, trachea, bronchi, and joints. The diagnosis of RP is based on the presence of clinical criteria, including bilateral auricular chondritis, nonerosive seronegative inflammatory polyar...

Primary plasma cell leukaemia--a case report.

Plasma cell leukemia is a rare disease entity where the number of clonal plasma cells in the peripheral blood exceeds 2X10 9 /l or 20% of the total leukocyte count. This plasma cell leukemia can be primary which is arising denovo or secondary as in the course of plasma cell myeloma. A 40 year old female who came to the outpatient department with complaints of low back pain for 3 months and had ...

Plasma cell leukaemia: a management conundrum

Primary plasma cell leukaemia in a young transplant eligible patient brings forth a number of perplexing questions and many remain unanswered. There are good data to suggest the superiority of novel agents over conventional chemotherapy regimens, however choosing between autologous and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant in first remission remains a therapeutic conundrum. We report a...

IgE myeloma associated with plasma cell leukaemia.

A patient presented with plasma cell leukaemia and was found to have an IgE secreting multiple myeloma. IgE myeloma is very rare with only 18 cases recorded. However, this case is the fifth recorded of IgE myeloma associated with plasma cell leukaemia. Since plasma cell leukaemia only occurs in 1.6% of all cases of myeloma, it seems certain that this is a significant association.