KROK 1 2009 – Question 40 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A 62-year-old female patient complains about frequent pains in the region of thorax and vertebral column, rib fractures. A physician suspected myelomatosis (plasmocytoma). Which of the following laboratory indices will be of the greatest diagnostic importance?
- A. Paraproteinemia
- B. Hypoglobulinemia
- C. Proteinuria
- D. Hypoproteinemia
- E. Hyperalbuminemia
Hint
Think about what the malignant plasma-cell clone itself secretes, and which blood finding therefore points most specifically to it.
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