From the case: Vertebral metastasis (colon carcinoma)

From the case: Vertebral metastasis (colon carcinoma)

Axial bone window

Fig. 2 Magnified transverse bone window reconstruction of Th11. A metastasis destroys the right pedicle and arch, but leaves the spinal canal intact. Hyperattenuation is due to vascularity, this is not an osteoblastic lesion.

contributed by Dr Roberto Schubert on May 7, 2011

Systems: Musculoskeletal

Spine

Oncology

Gastrointestinal

Section: Pathology

Tags: colon cancer

spine

metasasis

Modality: CT (bone window)

- “ Abdominal CT with contrast showed a large hypervascular tumor at the former site of the primary ascending colon carcinoma and a vertebral T11 meta...”

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Vertebral metastases - “ Vertebral metastases represent the secondary involvement of the vertebral spine by haematogenously-disseminated metastatic cells. They must be inc...”

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