Unveiling Multiple Myeloma: Actively Bleeding Extramedullary Gastric Myelomas Lead to Diagnosis

Abstract

ABSTRACT Multiple myeloma (MM) is a disease of plasma cell replication, leading to a disruption of hematopoiesis, which commonly presents clinically with anemia and fatigue. Extramedullary myelomas are plasma cell collections in bone or soft tissue associated with MM and most often occur later in the disease process. We present a case of a patient with symptomatic anemia with actively bleeding gastric nodules, which were later found to be extramedullary gastric myelomas when pathology demonstrated kappa-restricted plasma cell neoplasms. To confirm the overall diagnosis, a bone marrow biopsy verified the patient had MM.