ISSN:
1436-2813
Keywords:
multiple myeloma
;
metastatic breast cancer
;
lytic bone lesions
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract A 72-year-old woman with a history of early breast cancer suffered a fracture of the eighth thoracic vertebra resulting in paraplegia. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed spinal cord compression by a tumor between the ninth and tenth thoracic vertebrae. Local radiotherapy was begun under the diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, but bone marrow aspiration and biopsy subsequently revealed plasma-cell proliferation rather than adenocarcinoma. This case report serves to demonstrate that clinicians should consider multiple myeloma as a cause of lytic bone lesions without extraskeletal metastases even in patients with a history of breast cancer.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02482821
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