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Case Reports
. 2012 Apr;53(4):467-73.
doi: 10.1007/s00108-011-2996-z.

[Unusual skin alterations in a 72-year-old patient with multiple myeloma]

[Article in German]
C Hart  1 , S Wurm, C Hafner, R Andreesen, M Grube
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Case Reports

[Unusual skin alterations in a 72-year-old patient with multiple myeloma]

[Article in German]
C Hart et al. Internist (Berl). 2012 Apr.

Abstract

We report on a 72-year-old female patient with multiple myeloma who presented with alopecia and eye-catching alterations of the skin and the nails. A biopsy of the skin could confirm the diagnosis of immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis, which was also suspected of having affected other organs. After six cycles of a cytoreductive therapy with bortezomib and dexamethasone a very good partial response of the multiple myeloma was seen and an improvement in the skin and nail alterations could be achieved.

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