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Radiology case 48-342 Man aged 47yr with back pain and night sweats.
There is a low density area in the glenoid of the left scapula. It is irregular and not sharply defined. A more subtle zone of patchy loss of bone density lies in the posterior margin of the left 1st...

Radiology case 472-342 A young adult male with night fevers and lymphadenopathy.
There is a local soft tissue thickening of the retro-sternal soft tissue stripe. The curve is centred on the second segment of the sternum.

Radiology case 321-342 Young adult male with backache and enlarged palpable lymph glands in the neck and axillae.
There is a para-spinal shadow separate from the the silhouette of the overlying heart density and without loss of normal lower lobe vessel silhouettes. There is no rib crowding. The centre of radius...

Radiology case 4411-342 Clinical presentation: Man of 20 years with pain in his left side.
There is a purely lytic area in the left ilium with a fairly narrow zone of transition between normal and abnormal bone.

inborn error of metabolism
* autosomal recessive
* resembles Marfan syndrome but...
o medium-sized arteries involved
o osteoporosis present
o...

mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type I (aka: gargoylism)
* autosomal recessive deficiency of X-L iduronidase
* 1 in 10000 births
* prognosis: death in early teens
* dwarfism
* mental retardation
* kyphosis
...

overgrowth of bone at the inner table of the frontal bone
* usually bilateral and symmetrical
* chiefly in females> 35 y.o.
* no clinical siginificance
* unknown etiology
* irregular cortical thickening of the frontal area
* spares areas occupied by superior sagital sinus and venous channels
* may be 1 cm or thicker
* occasionaly...

	1'	2'
brown tumor	+++	++
chondrocalcinosis	+	rare
osteosclerosis	rare	+++
periostitis	rare	+

Radiology case 438-5319 Clinical presentation: Spontaneous fracture of the neck of the right femur precipitated a hospital admission for this middle aged male, where a markedly raised serum calcium was identified. Eventually, a small mass was removed from the neck.
The images show acro-osteolysis of the terminal phalanges, which improved in...

Radiology case 468-861 Male in his late teens with a chronic condition and recent painful joints.
The youth of the patient is indicated by the epiphyseal lines. There is a line of newbone that covers the metaphyses of tibia and fibula. The extra bone appears layered and is separated from the...

* acute
o ingestion of>1,000,000 IU --> increased intracranial pressure
* chronic
o 1-3 years
o pruritis
...

xray findings:
* premature closing of epiphyses
* generalized increased bone density in 9%
o localized thickening of the skull
o sacroiliac, femoral head, acetabulum
...

rare condition of unknown cause
* round face; short dwarf-like; obese
* mental retardation
* cataracts
* dry scaly skin; atrophy of nails
* dental hypoplasia (delayed tooth eruption, impaction of teeth, supernumerary teeth)

Plain x-ray and MRI imaging of Spinal TB

common form of inflamatory myopathy
* most common in the elderly
* equal sex incidence
* sporadic idiopathic disease (very rarely familial)
* misdiagnosed as steroid-resistant polymyositis
symptoms
* presents as a painless slowly progressive proximal myopathy
* may cause dysphagia
* mild to moderate muscle wasting