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  • Title: Pulmonary hyalinizing granulomas in a patient with malignant lymphoma, with development nine years later of multiple myeloma and systemic amyloidosis.
    Author: Drasin H, Blume MR, Rosenbaum EH, Klein HZ.
    Journal: Cancer; 1979 Jul; 44(1):215-20. PubMed ID: 582294.
    Abstract:
    In our patient, multiple bilateral nodular pulmonary densities appeared on a chest x-ray at the time of diagnosis of stage IV diffuse lymphocytic lymphoma. After localized radiation therapy, the patient received no further systemic therapy. The pulmonary nodules slowly became larger and more numerous. Nine years later the patient developed proven multiple myeloma. Pulmonary hyalinizing granulomas have not heretofore been associated with proven lymphoreticular neoplasia, although this has long been suspected. The occurrence of two B-cell tumors at different points in time associated with systemic amyloidosis is an extremely rare event. The authors discuss the possibility that these conditions represent an abnormality in a common cell of origin with differing expression over time. Coincidence, however, remains a likely explanation for the different immunopathies that occurred in our patient.
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