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Phagocytic plasma cells in a patient with multiple myeloma
P M Vanhagen1, K de Leeuw, A Hagemeijer
1Department of Immunology, Dijkzigt University Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Phagocytosis of blood cells by malignant plasma cells in multiple myeloma is an extremely rare condition. Here we present a 39-year-old woman with multiple myeloma. Bone marrow smear showed an extensive phagocytosis of erythrocytes and platelets by myeloma cells.