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A 51-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of polyneuropathy necessitating the use of a wheelchair. Initial diagnosis was idiopathic chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and associated monoclonal gammopathy. Investigations for multiple myeloma, including bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, were negative. What was initially felt to be an incidental osteosclerotic focus noted on the radiographic bone survey was eventually shown to be a solitary osteosclereotic plasmacytoma with associated amyloid. This dramatically altered treatment. This case emphasizes the importance of including osteosclerotic plasmacytoma in the differential diagnosis of a focal sclerotic bone lesion in the clinical setting of polyneuropathy. These lesions are less likely to progress to multiple myeloma than lytic plasma cell neoplasms, and the presence of polyneuropathy often results in earlier diagnosis and treatment with enhanced prospect of cure. The finding of amyloid deposition within the osteosclerotic lesion may be of prognostic importance.
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Received: 30 November 2000 Revision requested: 15 January 2001 Revision received: 16 April 2001 Accepted: 18 April 2001
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Voss, S., Murphey, M. & Hall, F. Solitary osteosclerotic plasmacytoma: association with demyelinating polyneuropathy and amyloid deposition. Skeletal Radiol 30, 527–529 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002560100391
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002560100391