IGD MULTIPLE-MYELOMA WITH THORACIC SPINE COMPRESSION DUE TO EPIDURAL EXTRA-OSSEOUS TUMOR SPREAD

On initial presentation of a patient with IgD multiple myeloma there w ere no features to suggest an unusual variant. Two months later she de veloped spinal cord compression due to an IgD plasma-cytoma. This comp lication of IgD has rarely been reported. During the course of the dis ease and using the routine laboratory protocol for investigating and i dentifying paraproteins, including IgD, the patient's results became i ndistinguishable from those in Bence-Jones proteinuria myeloma.