MULTIPLE MYELOMA WITH A MONOCLONAL PEAK AT BETA-GLOBULIN FRACTION: CASE REPORT
Keywords:
multiple myeloma, blood protein electrophoresis, beta-globulinsAbstract
The present work relates a case of a 82-year-oldpatient, with sudden backpain and crumbling of 7th thoracic vertebra, whose serwn protein electrophoresis showed a monoclonal peak at the betaglobulin fraction, an unusual find that occurs only in 10% of Multiple Myeloma cases. The patient underwent a sternal bone marrow aspiration puncture. The myelogram showed 70% of isolated and aggregated plamocytes, some of them dysplasic and binucleated, compatible with Multiple Myeloma. Treatment with chemotherapy, using Alkeran and Prednisone, started in January 2000, and the patient soon presented clinical-laboratorial recovery.
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