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Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Signs:
 • hyperCalcemia 28% (bone demineralization)
 • Renal disease 48%
Multiple Myeloma ... Diagnosis and Management ... osteolytic lesions and pathologic ... marrow plasma cells ... #Diagnosis #Management
Acquired von Willebrand Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management
 • Autoantibodies to vWF: Lymphoproliferative disorders (e.g. lymphoma,
Willebrand Syndrome - Diagnosis ... and Management ... lymphoma, multiple myeloma ... adsorption onto cancer cells ... #Management #treatment
Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MD) - Diagnosis and Management Summary
myelo (marrow) -dys- (abnormal) -plastic (shape) = funny-shaped cells
and Management ... Summary myelo ( ... = funny-shaped cells ... acute leukemia Management ... #Management #treatment
Castleman's Disease and Associated Syndromes
HYALINE VASCULAR VARIANT
 • unicentric, HHV8-ve, children and young.
 • Hyalinized vessels
Diffuse plasma cells ... cell disorders (myeloma ... Disease #Variants #Diagnosis ... #Pathology
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis ... and Management ... ear/skull base pathology ... /temporal bone pathology ... #Palsy #Diagnosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
amyotrophy with the pathologic ... - Microglial cells ... are the immune cells ... between nerve cells ... #management
Raindrop Skull- ...A skeletal survey showed diffuse osteopenia, a pubic bone fracture, and numerous radiolucent lesions
characteristic of multiple myeloma ... The diagnosis was ... clonal plasma cells ... #NEJM #clinical ... raindrop #multiple #myeloma
Solitary Cell Plasmacytoma

What?
• Plasma cell neoplasms can present as a single lesion (solitary plasmacytoma)
• In 3%
Diagnosis? ... patients with EMD myeloma ... Diagnostic Evaluation ... IFE, FLC assay Pathology ... • Multiple myeloma
TAFRO

TAFRO syndrome was first described in 2010, standing for:
- Thrombocytopenia
- Anasarca
- Fever
- Reticulin fibrosis
- Organomegaly

TAFRO syndrome
overgrowth of cells ... including lymphoma, myeloma ... Histopathological Diagnoses ... agonists #TAFRO #diagnosis ... #management #rheumatology
GRACE-2 Guidelines for Low-Risk, Recurrent Abdominal Pain in the ED

1) Should adult ED patients with low-risk,
repeat CT abdomen-pelvis ... pelvic or biliary pathology ... Pain #Emergency #diagnosis ... #management