Oncohematology

Lymph Node Plasmacytoma in Multiple Myeloma: Cytology

Cytology of a lymph node imprint in a plasmacytoma patient with myeloma: atypical plasma cells and significant neutrophil infiltration.

🔬 Lymph node imprint. Plasmacytoma. A diagnosis of multiple myeloma was verified many years ago. The patient is currently receiving chemotherapy. An unusually pronounced infiltration by neutrophilic granulocytes is noted.

🙏 Images and description were kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician, pathologist, member of the FLM Hematology Committee Elena Belyakova, Department of Molecular Morphology, E.E. Eichwald Clinic of North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, St. Petersburg.