Items tagged “sclerotic bone metastases”
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Article
Sclerotic bone metastases
Sclerotic or osteoblastic bone metastases are distant tumor deposits of a primary tumor within bone characterized by new bone deposition or new bone formation.
Epidemiology
Bone metastases are the most common malignancy of bone of which sclerotic bone metastases are less common than lytic bone...
Article
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...
Case
Diffuse osteoblastic metastases - prostate cancer
Published
08 Dec 2020
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CT
Case
Prostate metastases (DEXA)
Published
02 Jun 2022
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X-ray
CT