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Reports from Queen Mary Hospital add new data to research in myeloma

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, June 25th, 2009

"A 59-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a left rib fracture and was diagnosed with IgA multiple myeloma," scientists writing in the journal Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology report.

"The patient underwent autologous bone-marrow transplantation, and 14 months later she developed obstructive jaundice. Investigations. serum protein electrophoresis, contrast CT of thorax and abdomen, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with endoscopic biopsy and pleural biopsy. Diagnosis," wrote C.S. Chim and colleagues, Queen Mary Hospital.

The researchers concluded: "Extramedullary plasmacytomas at pancreatic head and pleura....

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