eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | multiple myeloma |
| Comorbidity | C0024314|lymphoproliferative disorder |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23985162 | Background: plasma cell leukemia (pcl) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder, accounting for 1-2% of all plasma cell neoplasms, characterized by the presence of >2 x 109/l of plasma cells circulating in the peripheral blood, and exists in two forms: primary pcl (ppcl, 60% of the cases), and secondary pcl (spcl), the latter being a leukemic transformation in patients with a previously diagnosed multiple myeloma. |
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