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[Amyloidoma Adjacent to the Thoracic Vertebral Body Developed into Systemic Amyloid Light-chain amyloidosis]
Kyoko Tanaka1, Hideto Goto, Shuhei Ikeda
1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yokohama Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Abstract:
Amyloidoma is very rare case of amyloidosis, and seldom develop into systemic disease. We report a case of an 82-year-old man who was referred to our hospital because of an oppressive feeling in the upper chest. Chest computed tomography showed a tumor on thoracic vertebral body. Percutaneous needle biopsy showed pathological findings of AL amyloidosis. No obvious systemic finding was confirmed, and the tumor was diagnosed as amyloidoma. After a 1-year observation, heart amyloidosis was appeared, then 6 months later he died. The autopsy revealed amyloid deposit on thoracic vertebral body, heart, arterial walls, esophagus, kidney, thyroid gland, stomach and lung. Careful observation is suggested to be necessary for amyloidoma considering the possibility of the development into systemic amyloidosis.
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