Cytology of plasma cell myeloma in bronchial washing
1Department of Pathology, Beheshti Hospital, Shiraz University School of Medicine, Iran.
Acta Cytologica
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 60-year-old man presenting with cough, dyspnea and chest pain was found to have plasma cell myeloma with pulmonary involvement. Cytologic smears of a bronchial washing showed clusters and sheets of cells with vague plasmacytoid features. Prominent nucleoli, which were present in most of the cells, and occasional glandlike patterns suggested an adenocarcinoma, thus causing a differential diagnostic problem.
