Plasmacytoma of the mandible

Electrophoretic Studies on the Serum Proteins in Neoplastic Disease Involving the Haemopoietic and Reticulo‐Endothelial Systems

“…associated with an almost identical electrophoretic pattern has been reported by Lane (1952); in this patient the configuration of the gamma peak was restored to normal two months after operative removal of the tumour.…”

Sites of Formation of Immune Globulins and of a Component of C'3

“…Perhaps, it can be assumed that serum protein production proceeds at similar sites in the human, but there is little direct evidence bearing on this problem. Most of the evidence that does exist concerns serum proteins serologically related to gamma globulin, fl2J,globulin, and fl2M-globulin (5)(6)(7). Fluorescein-labeled antibodies have proved useful in showing the presence of such proteins in normal and abnormal plasma cells (8)(9)(10)(11).…”

Plasma cell myeloma in unusually young patients: a report of two cases and review of the literature

“…A literature review performed by Harster and Krause [10] disclosed 37 cases of plasma cell m y e l o m a in young patients, including their own two cases. This report also included three cases of solitary myeloma of bone [10,32,33] and seven cases in the N I H survey mentioned above [24]. After their report, another five cases of multiple myeloma appeared in the literature [2,9,11,15,20].…”

“…Gootnick [381 reviewed the literature before 1945 and found that only two of 61 cases of solitary myeloma were in patients below the age of 30. Our literature search disclosed another 24 cases in which solitary myeloma of bone occurred before the age of 30, including our case [28,32,33,[35][36][37][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50].…”