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Multifocal extramedullary plasmacytoma with paraproteinemia, pleural involvement and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy: an uncommon pattern of relapse of solitary osseous plasmacytoma

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  1. Department of Haematology, University Hospital Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Amalia Vassou, Vasiliki Alymara, Epaminondas Agelis & Konstantinos L. Bourantas

  2. Department of Pathology, Chatzicosta Hospital Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

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Vassou, A., Alymara, V., Agelis, E. et al. Multifocal extramedullary plasmacytoma with paraproteinemia, pleural involvement and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy: an uncommon pattern of relapse of solitary osseous plasmacytoma. Ann Hematol 85, 335–336 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-006-0086-4

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