KROK 1 2007 – Question 29 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 62 y.o. woman complains of frequent pains in the area of her chest and backbone, rib fractures. A doctor assumed myelomatosis (plasmocytoma). What of the following laboratory characteristics will be of the greatest diagnostical importance?
- A. Hypoproteinemia
- B. Paraproteinemia
- C. Hypoglobulinemia
- D. Proteinuria
- E. Hyperalbuminemia
Hint
Think about what a single malignant plasma-cell clone produces in huge amounts, and which abnormal narrow band this creates on serum protein electrophoresis.
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