Cervical Fracture C7-T1 in a Young Patient with Multiple Myeloma: Report of a Case
Multiple myeloma is a neoplasm with malignant characteristics, which affects plasma cells, infiltrating the bone marrow in the usual way, causing osteolytic lesions in the affected bone, and other multi-organ complications. Epidemiologically it is observed in ages between 50 and 70 years. We present a case of a 33-year-old male patient with C7-T1 vertebral fractures managed surgically; In his medical studies, plasmacytosis> 60% was evidenced in the medullogram, protein electrophoresis highlighted an increase in the Alpha 2 component with splitting in this same fraction, in addition the results of Protein M and Bence Jones were Negative.
Keywords: multiple myeloma, solitary plasmacytoma, monoclonal protein, Bence-Jons protein, pathological vertebral fractures.
Citation: Rojas JCM, Pe rez BG, Ga lves JLM, Salle M, Freyre AM, Almarales MS. “Cervical Fracture C7-T1 in a Young Patient with Multiple Myeloma: Report of a Case”. SVOA Neurology 2:4 (2021) Pages 102-108.
