title: Diffuse nonsecretory osteosclerotic myeloma with extensive erythrophagocytosis.
abstract: A 51-year-old, black man presented with severe anemia and weakness. X-ray studies showed diffuse osteosclerosis involving most of his skeleton. He was documented to have similar bone changes on x-ray 5 years previously. Peripheral blood findings were suggestive of a myelophthisic anemia. Open biopsy of the iliac bone showed osteosclerotic myeloma. Secretion of abnormal protein could not be demonstrated through many examination of serum or urine. A unique finding at the autopsy was the presence of extensive erythrophagocytosis by the neoplastic plasma cells and macrophages.
mesh_terms: D004912:Erythrocytes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D010026:Osteosclerosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D010587:Phagocytosis