Acute Monocytic Leukaemia with Reactive Plasmacytosis
Keywords:
Acute myeloid leukaemia, Reactive plasmacytosis, Paracrine interleukin-6.Abstract
An increased plasma cell count in bone marrow of patients of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia occurs in a subgroup of
patients. There are very few case reports which document an increase in number of plasma cells at time of initial
diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Here we present a case of 45- year old- male diagnosed as Acute Monocytic
Leukaemia with Reactive Plasmacytosis, which posed much difficulty in diagnosis. The production of paracrine
interleukin- 6 by leukaemic blast cells is thought to cause this reactive increase in plasma cells.
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