title: [Plasma cell leukemia].
abstract: The following article describes five patients with plasma cell leukemia treated during the last two years at a Medical University Polyclinic. Plasma cell leukemia is a disease which was seen extremely rarely in the past. The disease can develop in patients with multiple myeloma or, even more rarely, as a "de novo" disease. Generally patients with plasma cell leukemia are younger than the multiple myeloma patients and have a higher incidence of organomegaly. Despite the fact that patients with plasma cell leukemia received the same intensive chemotherapy as those with multiple myeloma, their prognosis was considerably worse, with a median survival time of only five month.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Egli
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rhyner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007952:Leukemia, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000175:diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Plasmazelleukämie.