[A solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma of the nasopharynx].
A 72-year-old male, complaining of epistaxis, was referred to our hospital where a physical exam revealed a tumorous mass in the nasopharynx. A subsequent immunohistopathological investigation found that the tumor mass was a plasmacytoma with IgG and a lambda chain. Electrophoresis of a serum sample revealed a normal value and there was no signs indicating a multiple myeloma on x-ray surveys of the skeleton, or from bone marrow aspiration or scintigraphy. Thus the diagnosis was an extramedullary plasmacytoma and the patient received a combined treatment of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. Since surgery, the patient has had neither a recurrence or a metastasis of the tumor for four years and three months.
Satomi
F
F
Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital.
Kohmoto
E
E
Okamoto
R
R
Morisaki
Y
Y
Ono
K
K
Kumoi
T
T
D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000378:metabolism; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D012074:Remission Induction
D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains