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Query: UMLS:C0026764 (multiple myeloma)
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A 68-year-old man with chronic osteomyelitis of 40 years' duration, admitted through the Accident and Emergency Department with a fracture of the femur, required amputation through the left hip for the removal of a primitive solitary myeloma.
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PMID:Solitary myeloma in chronic osteomyelitis presenting as a lower femoral fracture. 646 11

Two hundred and thirty-three patients with renal amyloidosis were studied in an attempt to identify the incidence and pattern of the disease in northern India. The incidence of amyloidosis was 1.01% of 6431 post-mortems and 8.4% of 1980 renal biopsies from patients who presented with clinical evidence of glomerular disease. Two hundred and three patients (87.1%) had secondary amyloidosis, 22 (9.4%) had primary amyloid and 8 patients (3.5%) had amyloidosis associated with multiple myeloma. Tuberculosis of various organs was the commonest predisposing disease accounting for 59.1% of secondary amyloidosis, followed by chronic suppurative lung disease in 24.1%. Rheumatoid arthritis, chronic osteomyelitis and lepromatous leprosy were seen in a small percentage of patients (2 to 8%). Proteinuria of varying degree was present in all the 233 patients and 12.9% of them had a daily protein excretion of more than 10 g. Post-mortem examination of 65 patients with renal amyloidosis showed that 75.3% also had amyloid deposit in the spleen, 63% in the liver, and 50.8% in the adrenals. Clinical evidence of disappearance of proteinuria was observed in 3 patients with secondary amyloidosis; in 2 of them, the regression of amyloidosis was confirmed by serial renal biopsy performed 3 and 5 years after the initial diagnosis.
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PMID:Pattern of renal amyloidosis in Indian patients. 727 20

A method for measuring fucose not bound to proteins in the serum is developed. The level of this enzyme is shown to increase with age. It is increased in adult patients with myeloma, liver cirrhosis, and rheumatic fever and in children with exacerbations of chronic osteomyelitis and gastroduodenitis.
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PMID:[Method of measuring non-protein bound fucose]. 922 Oct 70

Neoplasia occurring in a sinus tract is a well known complication of chronic osteomyelitis. Previous series have been too small to permit survival analysis. Fifty-three consecutive patients (44 men and 9 women) from the authors' institution were reviewed, including 24 who previously were reported. There were 50 patients with squamous cell carcinomas, one with fibrosarcoma, one with myeloma, and one with lymphoma. Mean age was 59 years. One patient sought treatment elsewhere and was lost to followup. Forty-four patients underwent amputation, and eight underwent limb salvage. Followup averaged 9 years. Of 50 patients with squamous cell carcinoma, five died of disease. Overall survival in this group was not statistically different from that expected for age matched controls. Despite the low grade nature of most of these lesions, amputation often is chosen as the most reliable means of treating the tumor and the chronic infection.
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PMID:Malignant lesions arising in chronic osteomyelitis. 1033 97