Extramedullary plasmacytoma involves organs outside the bone marrow; however, involvement of the pancreas is rare. We recently experienced a case of extramedullary plasmacytoma of the pancreas that was diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA). EUS-FNA, which has a high diagnostic accuracy and an excellent safety profile, is the modality of choice for estab...

extramedullary plasmacytomas are plasma cell tumors that arise outside the bone marrow. they are most often located in the head and neck. extramedullary plasmacytomas account for approximately 3 percent of plasma cell malignancies. the diagnosis of an extramedullary plasmacytoma depends upon the demonstration of a monoclonal plasma cell tumor at an extramedullary site with no evidence of multip...

Primary extramedullary plasmacytoma is an indolent neoplasm that infrequently converts to multiple myeloma. Since cytogenetic data on extramedullary plasmacytoma are lacking, we studied 38 cases of this type of neoplasm by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Fourteen cases (37%) contained IGH breaks, including six with a t(4;14) translocation. No translocations t(11;14), t(14;16), t(8;14), nor ...

plasmacytoma are extramedullary accumulations of plasma cells. most extramedullary plasmacytomas are associated with the upper respiratory tract. the lung is rarely involved. we report a rare case of lung plasmacytoma with multiple myeloma. the patient is a 60-year-old male who presented with chest pain and a lung mass visualized on ct scan. a preliminary diagnosis of occult lung cancer with wi...

Abstract BACKGROUND. Extramedullary plasmacytoma is a rare tumor, representing less than 1% of head and neck tumors. This specific type tumor occurs in 90% cases the upper aero-digestive tract, with more frequent location 80% submucosa. CASE REPORT. We report case 39-year-old young man who presented for bilateral nasal obstruction swelling left region intermittent epistaxis moderate abundance. ...

BACKGROUND Extramedullary plasmacytoma is a rare plasma cell neoplasm within soft tissue and without bone marrow involvement or other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma. Primary pulmonary plasmacytoma is a rare type of extramedullary plasmacytoma. CASE PRESENTATION A 48-year-old male with a tumor in the right middle ear was referred to our hospital. A routine chest X-ray was arrange...

Here we report the discovery of an extramedullary ileocecal plasmacytoma, a rare entity reported only ∼60 times in the literature. This finding occurred during management of a patient who had sustained an occult perforation during diagnostic colonoscopy. We explored the patient finding a large ileocecal perforation, and thus a right hemicolectomy was performed. Interestingly, the pathology of t...

Extramedullary disease in plasma cell disorders can occur as a solitary plasmacytoma or can involve multiple sites with vastly different clinical outcomes. The article by Khaliq et al reports an unusual case of solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma (SEP) of the bladder in which the patient had a favorable outcome with lenalidomide/dexamethasone after failing first-line treatment with radiotherap...