Bone disease is the most frequent feature of multiple myeloma (MM) and represents a
marker of end-organ damage; it is used to establish the diagnosis and to dictate the …

Multiple myeloma is a common hematologic malignancy among the elderly population.
Although there have been many advances in treatment over the past few decades, the …

Detection of lytic bone lesions is crucial in the workup for multiple myeloma and very often
dictates the decision to start treatment. Conventional radiography, despite decades of use, is …

Multiple myeloma is a heterogeneous group of plasma cell neoplasms that primarily involve
bone marrow but also may occur in the soft tissue. Although the disease varies in its …

Bone imaging has been intimately associated with the diagnosis and staging of multiple
myeloma (MM) for more than 5 decades, as the presence of bone lesions indicates …

Bone disease is the major feature of multiple myeloma (MM). Imaging is required for correct
staging, in the follow‐up after treatment and, as recently highlighted, is predictor of …

In multiple myeloma, imaging is required to determine the stage of disease and to anticipate
impending bone fractures. Whereas the traditionally used Durie and Salmon staging system …

Medical imaging is of crucial importance for diagnosis and initial staging as well as for
differentiation of multiple myeloma (MM) from other monoclonal plasma cell diseases …

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal plasma cell proliferative disorder characterized by
primary infiltration of bone marrow and excessive production of abnormal immunoglobulin …

The recently updated Durie/Salmon PLUS staging system published in 2006 highlights the
many advances that have been made in the imaging of multiple myeloma, a common …