title: Clinicopathological study on plasma cell osteomyelitis.
abstract: Clinicopathological findings of a case of chronic plasma cell osteomyelitis of a sixteen years old Japanese boy who underwent surgery under the diagnosis of malignant bone tumor of the proximal tibial metaphysis, have been presented. Sixty-one cases of chronic plasma cell osteomyelitis including this case were reviewed. The authors described that is is necessary to make a careful differentiation between these cases and solitary myeloma clinically and microscopically.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000175:diagnosis; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D013977:Tibia