Blood Res.  2016 Jun;51(2):142-144. 10.5045/br.2016.51.2.142.

Bilateral myelomatous pleural effusion: presentation of two cases

• Amaraneni
• Saeed U
• Malik D
• Brown M
• Chandana S

• KMID: 2309219
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5045/br.2016.51.2.142

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Pleural Effusion*

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Computed tomography image showing extensive bilateral pleural nodularity. A pulmonary mass can be seen on the right anterior chest wall (yellow arrow); bilateral pleural effusions are also present (purple arrows).

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  Fig. 2 Pleural fluid cytology revealing numerous atypical plasmacytoid cells with multinucleated forms, nucleoli, cytoplasmic vacuoles, and mitotic figures.

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