Phagocytic plasma cells in a patient with multiple myeloma.
Phagocytosis of blood cells by malignant plasma cells in multiple myeloma is an extremely rare condition. Here we present a 39-year-old woman with multiple myeloma. Bone marrow smear showed an extensive phagocytosis of erythrocytes and platelets by myeloma cells.
Vanhagen
P M
PM
Department of Immunology, Dijkzigt University Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
de Leeuw
K
K
Hagemeijer
A
A
Löwenberg
B
B
D000328:Adult; D001773:Blood Cells; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D010587:Phagocytosis; D010950:Plasma Cells / Q000502:physiology*