Question 498 · LEK · Multiple myeloma
A 62-year-old male was admitted to the Internal Medicine Department due to acute kidney injury and hypercalcaemia. Diagnostics revealed nephrotic proteinuria, diffuse mediastinal and abdominal lymphadenopathy and numerous osteolytic lesions in bones. The patient requires urgent consultation with:
- A. urologist.
- B. rheumatologist.
- C. nephrologist.
- D. endocrinologist.
- E. haematologist.
Hint
Put hypercalcaemia, kidney injury, lytic bone lesions and lymph node enlargement together as one systemic disease, and pick the specialty that diagnoses it.
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