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. 1978 Mar;31(3):259–264. doi: 10.1136/jcp.31.3.259

Cerebral involvement in multiple myeloma: case report.

J McCarthy, S J Proctor
PMCID: PMC1145239  PMID: 417093

Abstract

Cerebral myeloma in a 49-year-old white man took the form of diffuse arachnoid infiltration, intracerebral perivascular cuffing, and frank intracerebral invasion.

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