Microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti in plasma cell myeloma: A case report.

subtropics and is endemic in India1. In India, Wuchereria bancrofti accounts for 90% of the total filarial infections2. The disease can present as silent clinical disease or as lymphadenitis, lymphangitis or elephantiasis1. The diagnosis is conventionally based on demonstration of microfilaria in the peripheral blood smear. There are very few case reports describing microfilariae in bone marrow aspirates3-5. Even after thorough search in the literature we could not find a case of microfilaria along with plasma cell myeloma in bone marrow smears. We present a case of plasma cell myeloma which was diagnosed on bone marrow aspiration and presence of microfilaria was overlooked.