Salt and pepper appearance

Case contributed by Subhan Iqbal
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Salt and pepper shakers sitting on a table in Currier House's dining hall at Harvard University.

Image credit: Tbuckley89

Modifications: cropped, recoloured black and white

Case Discussion

Salt and pepper sign or pepper pot skull refers to multiple little well-defined lucencies in the calvarium induced by resorption of trabecular bone in hyperparathyroidism. There is a loss of definition between the inner and outer tables of the skull and a ground-glass appearance as well as spotty deossification.

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Author: Tbuckley89

Original file: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salt_%26_Pepper.JPG#mw-jump-to-license

Licence: Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported - Creative Commons

Modifications: cropping with little image enhancement (recoloured black and white)

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