Subcutaneous beta2-microglobulin amyloid shoulder nodulesin a long-term hemodialysis patient.
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
; 23(2): 139-41, 2010 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-20396423
ABSTRACT
beta2-Microglobulin accumulation with resultant tumor formation is a known albeit rare complication of long-term hemodialysis. Although these tumors may occur in various locations, subcutaneous shoulder nodules are very infrequent. We report a patient with end-stage kidney failure who had been on hemodialysis for 16 years and noted left shoulder nodules after initiation of hemodialysis; these nodules had slowly grown larger. Biopsy of one of these nodules revealed beta2-microglobulin amyloidosis by histopathology, Congo red stain, electron microscopy, and immunohistochemistry.
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2010
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