A diffuse plasma-cell disease in a golden hamster (Cricitus auratus).

Abstract

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.