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plasma cell
(redirected from Plasma cells)

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plasma cell [′plazĀ·mə ‚sel]
(histology)


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Ana Butler's mother, Lillith Machado, was 73 when she died of myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that annually strikes nearly 16,000 people, typically at age 67.
Microscopically, the mass was made up of monotonous sheets of neoplastic plasma cells with eccentric hyperchromatic nuclei and irregular chromatin distribution (figure 2, A).
Plasma cells were found only in stage 2 and 3 lymphedema and were significantly less common in biopsies from women (4 [4%] of 93) than from men (7 [28%] of 25) (p = 0.
 
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