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Osteoblastic metastases

Case contributed by Roberto Schubert
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Advanced prostate cancer

Patient Data

Age: 80 years
Gender: Male

MRI Pelvis

mri

Multiple bone lesions within the pelvis, lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and femurs. These lesions are well demarcated and return high signal in STIR and low signal in T1.

 

Nuclear medicine

Radionuclide uptake is seen within the lumbar, sacrum, pelvic and femoral bones, corresponding to bone lesions seen in the MRI.

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