Primary Plasmacytoma of the Sigmoid Colon.
- Author:
Yong Beom BAK
1
;
Chang Mok SON
;
Hye Suk GIM
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, Maryknoll Hospital, Busan, Korea. emmbob@hanmir.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Plasmacytoma;
Sigmoid colon
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Biopsy;
Cell Proliferation;
Colectomy;
Colitis, Ulcerative;
Colon, Sigmoid*;
Colonoscopy;
Diarrhea;
Female;
Humans;
Multiple Myeloma;
Plasmacytoma*
- From:Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
2003;65(2):172-175
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Plasmacytoma is a lymphoid neoplasm with the histological, immunological, and functional features of an immunoglobulin- secreting B cell proliferation. Intestinal involvement may be a manifestation of a diffuse multiple myeloma or less commonly, a primary tumor. Gastric plasmacytomas occur more frequently than intestinal plasmacytomas. We experienced a woman who had a primary extramedullary plasmacytoma that originated in the sigmoid colon. She had suffered from abdominal pain and diarrhea for 4 months and underwent a colonoscopy examination. A colonoscopic biopsy revealed it to be ulcerative colitis, and she underwent a total colectomy as a result. However, the permanent biopsy finding was a plasmacytoma. We review the clinical manifestations, as well as the radiological and histopathological findings of a plasmacytoma.
