Plasma Cell Leukemia with Myelofibrosis

Acute massive myelofibrosis with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Acute myelofibrosis is characterized by pancytopenia of sudden onset, megakaryocytic hyperplasia, extensive bone marrow fibrosis, and the absence of organomegaly. Acute myelofibrosis in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia is extremely rare. We report a 4-year-old boy who was diagnosed as having acute massive myelofibrosis and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Performing bone marrow aspiratio...

An Unusual Presentation of Plasma Cell Leukemia with Undiagnosed Multiple Myeloma

A 54 year old man with history of cardiomyopathy and chronic fibrillation first presented with bloody diarrhea. Then during the assessment of his abnormal lab. data revealed cast nephropathy in renal biopsy, gamma peak in protein electrophoresis and fine lytic lesions in skull graphy. His bone marrow asp...

Plasma cell leukemia

Paciente do gênero feminino, 74 anos, procurou o hospital com quadro de insuficiência renal e lesões líticas em coluna vertebral, sendo feito diagnóstico de mieloma múltiplo IgG kappa. Na ocasião, observaram-se monossomia do cromossomo 13 e rearranjo do IgH no FISH. A paciente foi submetida a cinco ciclos de VMP (bortezomibe, melfalan e prednisona) com resposta com pleta; foi iniciada a manuten...

Plasma cell leukemia.

Secondary plasma cell leukemia.

Plasma cell leukemia (PCL) is a rare disease and is the least common variant of multiple myeloma accounting for 2-3% of all plasma cell dyscrasias. We report a patient who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, 12 months earlier; he was treated with VBCMP, VCMP regime, and after 12 months he presented of high grade fever, weakness, palpitations, loss of appetite, bone pains, dyspnea. Initial eval...