Case report: Thoracic and lumbar plasma cell myeloma mimicking hemangiomas on MRI and ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT.

ABSTRACT: Plasma cell myeloma (PCM) is a malignant clonal disease of abnormal proliferation of plasma cells, which is the second most common hematological malignancy after leukemia. PCM often diffuses and involves the bones of the whole body, especially the spinal column, ribs, skull, pelvis, and other axial bones and flat bones. Herein, we present a 55-year-old man who came to the hospital seeking medical help for low-back pain and numbness in his lower limbs. Computed tomography (CT) was performed because the clinician suspected that the patient had a herniated disc, and the results showed that the 7^th thoracic vertebrae and the 3^rd lumbar vertebrae showed a low density of bone destruction with "honeycombing" changes. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed that the correspon

SUBMITTER: Hu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9386064 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature