Discussion
Diagnosis With Brief Discussion
- Diagnosis
- multiple myeloma with thoracic paraskeletal involvement
- Radiologic Findings
- He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma with thoracic paraskeletal involvement through VATS biopsy and bone marrow biopsy.
Figure 1. Chest radiography reveals bilateral pleural effusions, with more on the left side. Additionally, there were somewhat increased bronchovascular bundle markings and ill-defined patchy opacities in both hemithoraces.
Figure 2. Axial view contrast-enhanced chest CT scan reveals multifocal pleural nodular lesions and pleural effusion in both hemithoraces.
Figure 3. On the oblique axial reconstruction image, the lesions appear as a continuous band-like soft tissue density with a smooth margin along each rib.
Figure 4. 5 On the coronal and sagittal images, the lesions are surrounding the inner surface of each rib.
- Brief Review
- Multiple myeloma (MM) is the most frequent cancer to involve the skeleton, with 80
- References
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2. Blade J, Beksac M, Caers J, et al. Extramedullary disease in multiple myeloma: a systematic literature review. Blood Cancer J 2022;12:45.
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