[Unexpected computerized tomography findings in neoplasm staging of a patient with plasmacytoma].
A case of a 69-year-old male patient is described. Staging CT brought unexpected findings with therapeutic consequences. Pneumoperitoneum was the most important sign. A pneumoretroperitoneum and a dilatation of the colon sigmoldeum were also found. Intraoperatively a perforated sigmadiverticulitis was detected. Therefore, one should pay attention to extraskeletal changes during the staging of multiple myeloma.
Schäfer
C B
CB
Abteilung für Computertomographie, Strahlentherapie und Nuklearmedizin, KH der Barmherzigen Brüder Regensburg.
Allgäuer
M
M
D000368:Aged; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012188:Retropneumoperitoneum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D012810:Sigmoid Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed