EXTRAMEDULLARY PLASMACYTOMA: REPORT OF A CASE MANIFESTED AS A PLEURAL MASS

ALİ CEVAT KUTLUK, CELALETTİN İBRAHİM KOCATÜRK, YUNUS SEYREK, NESLİHAN AKANIL FENER

Current Thoracic Surgery - 2017;2(3):96-99

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yedikule Chest Disease and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a plasma cell neoplasm of soft tissue without bone marrow involvement or other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma. A 68 year-old male presented with haemoptysis of 3 months. Computed thorax tomography (CT) revealed a 3x5 cm pleural mass adjacent to right lower lobe. The mass was diagnosed as pleural plasmacytoma.