Asian Journal of Medical Principles and Clinical Practice

Peripheral Blood Plasmacytosis Mimicking Plasma Cell Neoplasm

Malvika Gaur

Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India.

Amod Saroj

Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India.

Tushar Sehgal *

Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

Infectious diseases have the potential to produce an increase in the number of plasma cells in the blood. It may raise the possibility of a plasma cell neoplasm being present. We present the case of an elderly male patient with an infection-related plasmacytosis that mimicked a neoplastic process.

Keywords: Blood plasmacytosis, infectious diseases, plasma cell neoplasm

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