Large lytic lesions with minimal structural bone remaining may benefit from curettage and cementation to augment the structural stability of the construct. Additionally, curettage of the lesion ...

Pathological fractures occur in bone that lacks normal biochemical and viscoelastic properties. A few conditions are involved in the aetiology of fractures during infancy. Accurate and careful ...

We describe a patient with an autoinflammatory disease in which the main clinical features are pustular rash, marked osteopenia, lytic bone lesions, respiratory insufficiency, and thrombosis. Genetic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 44-year-old man was referred for evaluation of hypercalcemia. He had atraumatic rib and clavicle fractures in ...

Improved diagnosis: Lytic bone lesions in a multiple myeloma patient are better visualized in the photon-counting detector (PCD) CT image (middle, solid arrows) than in the conventional low-dose CT ...

Lytic bone disease is a major feature of multiple myeloma: 70% to 80% of patients have osteolytic lesions at diagnosis, and up to 90% develop lytic lesions during the course of their disease. 1 The ...

A recent report details the first reported case of an osteolytic lesion in polycythemia vera and reviews current literature on osteolytic lesions in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) overall.