title: Cytology of plasma cell myeloma in bronchial washing.
abstract: A 60-year-old man presenting with cough, dyspnea and chest pain was found to have plasma cell myeloma with pulmonary involvement. Cytologic smears of a bronchial washing showed clusters and sheets of cells with vague plasmacytoid features. Prominent nucleoli, which were present in most of the cells, and occasional glandlike patterns suggested an adenocarcinoma, thus causing a differential diagnostic problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Beheshti Hospital, Shiraz University School of Medicine, Iran.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Riazmontazer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bedayat
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000166:cytology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*