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Dyspnea and pleural effusion as presenting clinical manifestations of multiple myeloma.

Gal Neuman, Yaron Denekamp

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Abstract

he most common presenting clini-cal findings of multiple myeloma are fatigue, bone pain and recurrent infections [1]. We report an extremely rare case of a patient presenting with effort dyspnea due to a pleural effu-sion in whom a diagnosis of multiple myeloma was established after a thor-ough investigation.

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he most common presenting clini-cal findings of multiple myeloma are fatigue, bone pain and recurrent infections [1]. We report an extremely rare case of a patient presenting with effort dyspnea due to a pleural effu-sion in whom a diagnosis of multiple myeloma was established after a thor-ough investigation.

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he most common presenting clini-cal findings of multiple myeloma are fatigue, bone pain and recurrent infections [1]. We report an extremely rare case of a patient presenting with effort dyspnea due to a pleural effu-sion in whom a diagnosis of multiple myeloma was established after a thor-ough investigation.

Key concepts: Medicine, Multiple myeloma, Pleural effusion, Bone pain, Chest pain, Intensive care medicine, Radiology, Internal medicine

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