A 3 1/2 year-old male hamster with neurologic disturbances hud a systemic plasms-cell disease. The most prominent feature was widespread plasmacytic infiltration of the meninges with secondary degeneration of the brain. It is uncertain whether the disease should He considered a plasma-cell neoplasm or a florid reactive plasmacytosis.
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