A Case of Multiple Myeloma: Mimicking Carcinoma Larynx

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The cancer of the larynx accounts for 30–40 % of the head and neck carcinomas and 1–2.5 % of the whole human malignancies. Squamous cell carcinoma is the predominant histological type and it represents 90–95 % of the newly diagnosed cases. Other histologies include neuroendocrine carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, sarcomas, primary lymphoma, plasmacytoma and metastatic malignancies. Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the Larynx constitutes only 0.4–0.45 % of the malignant tumours of the larynx and <1 % of all Head and Neck malignancies. It presents with change in voice, breathing difficulty, stridor or dysphagia similar to carcinoma larynx. We report a case of plasmacytoma of the larynx which was mimicking carcinoma larynx and later on evaluation was found to have Multiple myeloma [1‐4]. …