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01-06-2015 | Images in Hematology
Gastric invasion of multiple myeloma presenting as gastrointestinal bleeding
Authors:
Kei Nakajima, Yuki Sueki, Megumi Koshiishi, Ichiro Kawashima, Yumi Nozaki, Toru Mitsumori, Keita Kirito
Published in:
International Journal of Hematology
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Issue 6/2015
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Excerpt
A 62-year-old woman was hospitalized because of melena. She had been diagnosed with Bence Jones κ-type multiple myeloma (MM) 7 years prior. At the diagnosis of multiple myeloma, chromosome analysis of bone marrow cells revealed the karyotype abnormality 46, XX, t(7;8)(q32;q13) in one of 20 cells analyzed. …