A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity
Multiple myeloma (MM), a plasma cell tumor, is primarily a disease of the bone marrow. Extramedullary plasmacytoma, also a plasma cell tumor, is very rare in the gastrointestinal tract and the pancreas, and only a handful cases have been documented till now. Gastric and pancreatic plasmacytomas are...
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doaj-a3a4b6c8f95c49fda91eca537034c0582020-11-25T03:03:22ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports2324-70962018-05-01610.1177/2324709618777003A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare EntityTagore Sunkara MD0Santosh R. Sharma MD1Andrew Ofosu MD2Vinaya Gaduputi MD3Madhavi Reddy MD4Ghulamullah Shahzad MD5The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affiliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affiliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affiliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USASBH Health System, Bronx, NY, USAThe Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affiliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affiliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USAMultiple myeloma (MM), a plasma cell tumor, is primarily a disease of the bone marrow. Extramedullary plasmacytoma, also a plasma cell tumor, is very rare in the gastrointestinal tract and the pancreas, and only a handful cases have been documented till now. Gastric and pancreatic plasmacytomas are usually seen in elderly patients; however, cases in patients as young as 32 years of age have been reported. Commonly, patients with gastric plasmacytoma present with nonspecific symptoms like epigastric pain, abdominal fullness, anorexia, and weight loss, or serious conditions like massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding and gastric outlet obstruction. Patients with pancreatic plasmacytoma commonly present with obstructive jaundice. In this article, we present the case of a 79-year-old man with a history of MM for 3 years, diagnosed with gastric and pancreatic masses, which turned out to be plasmacytomas. To our knowledge, simultaneous occurrence of gastric and pancreatic plasmacytomas is extremely uncommon with less than 5 cases reported in the literature. We also compiled all the individual cases of gastric and pancreatic MM that have been reported in literature till now.https://doi.org/10.1177/2324709618777003 |
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Tagore Sunkara MD Santosh R. Sharma MD Andrew Ofosu MD Vinaya Gaduputi MD Madhavi Reddy MD Ghulamullah Shahzad MD A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports |
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Tagore Sunkara MD Santosh R. Sharma MD Andrew Ofosu MD Vinaya Gaduputi MD Madhavi Reddy MD Ghulamullah Shahzad MD |
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A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity |
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A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity |
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A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity |
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A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity |
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A Case of Concurrent Gastric and Pancreatic Plasmacytomas in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: An Extremely Rare Entity |
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case of concurrent gastric and pancreatic plasmacytomas in a patient with multiple myeloma: an extremely rare entity |
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Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports |
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Multiple myeloma (MM), a plasma cell tumor, is primarily a disease of the bone marrow. Extramedullary plasmacytoma, also a plasma cell tumor, is very rare in the gastrointestinal tract and the pancreas, and only a handful cases have been documented till now. Gastric and pancreatic plasmacytomas are usually seen in elderly patients; however, cases in patients as young as 32 years of age have been reported. Commonly, patients with gastric plasmacytoma present with nonspecific symptoms like epigastric pain, abdominal fullness, anorexia, and weight loss, or serious conditions like massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding and gastric outlet obstruction. Patients with pancreatic plasmacytoma commonly present with obstructive jaundice. In this article, we present the case of a 79-year-old man with a history of MM for 3 years, diagnosed with gastric and pancreatic masses, which turned out to be plasmacytomas. To our knowledge, simultaneous occurrence of gastric and pancreatic plasmacytomas is extremely uncommon with less than 5 cases reported in the literature. We also compiled all the individual cases of gastric and pancreatic MM that have been reported in literature till now. |
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