Page created on March 13, 2019. Last updated on May 13, 2022 at 07:45
Organ: Spinal column
Description:
The different vertebrae show 3 roundish areas of softened bone, called osteolytic lesions.
Diagnosis: Multiple myeloma
Differential diagnosis of osteolytic lesions:
- Metastasis from breast cancer
- Metastasis from lung cancer
- Multiple myeloma
Theory:
The common symptoms of multiple myeloma are:
- C – hypercalcaemia
- R – renal failure
- A – Anaemia
- B – bone (osteolytic) lesions
Osteolytic lesions can have other causes as well, as seen above.
Prostate cancer causes osteosclerosis metastasis. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301252751/figure/fig6/AS:961374972821516@1606221063530/Clinical-presentation-of-bone-metastases-a-A-full-body-bone-scan-in-a-breast-cancer.gif
Truee. Removed now. Thanks.