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Multiple photopenic vertebrae in the bone scintigraphy of a young man with Gorham disease: CT and MRI correlation
Affiliations- Nuclear Medicine Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
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Abstract
We report a rare pattern of extensive bone abnormalities on the Tc-99m MDP bone scintigraphy in a patient with Gorham disease. This rare condition is the result of vascular and lymphatic channel proliferation in bony structures which induce bone resorption. Our case is a 28-year-old man with a history of biopsy-proven soft tissue hemangioma in the left thigh, encountered with a recent diagnosis of multiple vertebral hemangiomata in the axial skeleton and progressive bony destructions in the pelvis on CT and MRI images, referred for bone scintigraphy. Multiple photopenic hemangiomata were noted on bone scan.
Abstract
We report a rare pattern of extensive bone abnormalities on the Tc-99m MDP bone scintigraphy in a patient with Gorham disease. This rare condition is the result of vascular and lymphatic channel proliferation in bony structures which induce bone resorption. Our case is a 28-year-old man with a history of biopsy-proven soft tissue hemangioma in the left thigh, encountered with a recent diagnosis of multiple vertebral hemangiomata in the axial skeleton and progressive bony destructions in the pelvis on CT and MRI images, referred for bone scintigraphy. Multiple photopenic hemangiomata were noted on bone scan.
Keywords
Gorham disease; Bone resorption; Vascular proliferation; Hemangioma
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Multiple photopenic vertebrae in the bone scintigraphy of a young man with Gorham disease: CT and MRI correlation
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Clinical vignette
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40-42
Published online
2019-01-31
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DOI
10.5603/NMR.2019.0008
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Bibliographic record
Nucl. Med. Rev 2019;22(1):40-42.
Keywords
Gorham disease
Bone resorption
Vascular proliferation
Hemangioma
Authors
Ramin Sadeghi
Sara Shakeri
Toktam Massoudi
Fatemeh Farahmandfar
Farnaz Nesari Javan
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