Items tagged “bone metastases”
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Osteoblastic metastases of the foot and ankle
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13 Jan 2012
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Bone metastases
Bone (skeletal) metastases are the third most frequent behind lung and liver metastases 6. They result in significant morbidity in patients with metastatic disease. Although the diagnosis is often straightforward, especially as in many cases there is a well-documented history of metastatic malig...
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Mixed lytic and sclerotic bone metastases
Mixed lytic and sclerotic bone (osteolytic and osteoblastic) metastases refer to metastatic bone disease with both sclerotic and lytic bone metastases or bone metastases with both components.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis is established by proof of sclerotic and lytic bone metastases of one primary ...
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Lytic bone metastases
Lytic bone (osteolytic) metastases are distant tumor deposits of a primary tumor within bone characterized by a loss of bone with the destruction of the bone matrix.
Epidemiology
Lytic bone metastases are more common than sclerotic bone metastases.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis is usually establis...
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Mixed osteoblastic and osteolytic bone metastases
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04 Jul 2012
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Humeral osteolytic lesion
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01 Sep 2012
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Lung cancer with bone metastases
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24 Mar 2013
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Tumors that metastasize to bone (mnemonic)
Tumors that metastasize to bone may be remembered using the mnemonic "PBKTL", rendered as "lead kettle", as "Pb" is the standard abbreviation for the chemical element, lead.
PB-KTL
Mnemonic
P: prostate
B: breast
K: kidney
T: thyroid
L: lung
For females, breast and lung are the most commo...
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Metastatic renal cell carcinoma - bones and lungs
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31 Mar 2019
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Breast wound infection with chest wall sepsis and multifocal emphysematous osteomyelitis
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11 Jul 2021
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Pathological fracture - breast cancer bone metastasis
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10 Apr 2022
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Metastatic breast cancer
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17 May 2022
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Metastatic skull and right orbital masses
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22 Feb 2024
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