title: [Bone manifestations of multiple myeloma in the Ivory Coast. Apropos of 27 cases].
abstract: Report on 27 cases of multiple myeloma recorded in 10 years and 24000 in-patients of Treichville University Hospital in Abidjan (Republic of Ivory Coast). The sex-ratio is 70% of males versus 30% of females and the frequency ranges from 25 years to a maximum between 55 and 75 years. First warning symptoms are pains (70%) then fractures (14,1%), biologic disorders (11,1%) and tumors (7,4%). Vertebrae and flat bones are most often affected with a special frequency for skull and jaw. Radiological aspects and biological changes are reviewed; a high blood sedimentation rate, rather common in Africans, has not the same value as in Caucasians.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Manifestations osseuses du myélome multiple en Côte d'Ivoire. A propos de 27 observations.