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A case of extramedullary plasmacytoma in the soft tissues of the posterior chest wall of an 80-year old man is reported herein. Immunofluorescence study showed that the tumor cells produced IgGλ. An M-component was also detected in the patient’s serum by paper electrophoresis. Two months following the open biopsy done to establish diagnosis, the tumor underwent spontaneous regression and the M-component in the serum also disappeared. This is the first case report of spontaneous regression of an extramedullary plasmacytoma and the probable reasons for this spontaneous regression are discussed herein.
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Arunabh, Dutta Gupta, S., Bal, S. et al. Spontaneous regression of extramedullary plasmacytoma —A case report. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 18, 455–459 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471472
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