title: Multiple myeloma: a patient with unusual features including intracranial and meningeal involvement, testicular involvement, organomegaly, and plasma cell leukemia.
abstract: A 27-year-old Chinese male presented with multiple myeloma. Over his 18-month course he manifested a number of unusual features of his disease including his young age, marked organomegaly, a testicular plasmacytoma, multiple intracranial extraskeletal plasmacytomas and meningeal involvement, and peripheral blood plasmacytosis. The case is described and recent literature on these rare manifestations is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Turhal
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Henehan
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007952:Leukemia, Plasma Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000473:pathology*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*