Syphilis should be considered in the differential diagnosis for lytic osseous lesions. The diagnosis of syphilitic osteitis can be made based on clinical, radiographic, and serologic findings, and ...

Metastasis Stage, Adjuvant Treatment, and Residual Tumor Are Prognostic Factors for Medulloblastoma in Children: Conclusions From the Children's Cancer Group 921 Randomized Phase III Study PURPOSE: To ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Skeletal involvement by metastatic lung cancer has significant consequences on patient outcomes. In most cases, it is associated with pain, and in a large number of cases, leads to pathological ...

Allogeneic SCT for myeloma may be curative for young patients, but its role remains controversial because of a reported high TRM in some series. Since 1991, we have performed 25 allografts for myeloma ...

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 ...

For most people living with multiple myeloma, bone pain tops the list of symptoms. No wonder, given that the disease causes cancerous plasma cells to build up in bone marrow (the soft tissue in bones) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This case focuses on a 51-year-old woman with a history of right breast cancer initially palpated during a ...