Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the thyroid: report of a rare case

Mohammad Jaseem Hassan; Sabina Khans; Mukta Pujani; Sujata Jetley; Prabhat Kumar Raina; Rayees Ahmad

doi:10.5045/br.2014.49.4.280

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Blood Res 2014; 49(4):

Published online December 31, 2014

https://doi.org/10.5045/br.2014.49.4.280

Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the thyroid: report of a rare case

Mohammad Jaseem Hassan¹, Sabina Khans¹, Mukta Pujani¹, Sujata Jetley^1*, Prabhat Kumar Raina², and Rayees Ahmad²

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¹Department of Pathology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR), India.

²Department of General Surgery, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR), India.

Correspondence to : Sujata Jetley. Department of Pathology, HIMSR, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 110062, India. sujatajetley@gmail.com

Received: May 8, 2014; Revised: November 7, 2014; Accepted: November 10, 2014

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Letter to the Editor

Blood Res 2014; 49(4): 280-283

Published online December 31, 2014 https://doi.org/10.5045/br.2014.49.4.280

Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the thyroid: report of a rare case

Mohammad Jaseem Hassan¹, Sabina Khans¹, Mukta Pujani¹, Sujata Jetley^1*, Prabhat Kumar Raina², and Rayees Ahmad²

¹Department of Pathology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR), India.

²Department of General Surgery, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR), India.

Correspondence to: Sujata Jetley. Department of Pathology, HIMSR, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 110062, India. sujatajetley@gmail.com

Received: May 8, 2014; Revised: November 7, 2014; Accepted: November 10, 2014

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Figure 1.

Extramedullary plasmacytoma: gross-cut section of a specimen appears gray, firm, and fleshy.

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Microscopy of extramedullary plasmacytoma of the thyroid. (A) Sheets of plasma cells infiltrating the thyroid parenchyma with few entrapped atrophic thyroid follicles (H&E, ×100). (B) Sheets of plasma cells with some binucleated forms (H&E, ×400). (C) Many lymphoid follicles with germinal centers (H&E, ×100). (D) CD138-positive tumor cells on immunohistochemistry.

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Immunohistochemistry of extramedullary plasmacytoma of the thyroid showing (A) tumor cells positive for kappa light chain and (B) tumor cells negative for lambda light chain.

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