Radiology Cases Osteolytic Metastases LSBU

Description: Simply bone destruction and replacement by tumour mass. Most gamuts indicate lytic metastasis and myeloma together near the top of the list in a mature patient. Radiographic detection involves the frequently difficult observation of the absence of a normal structure. The lesions are made more difficult to detect by the observations that up to 30 percent of the bone mass must be destroyed, before a visible change in grey scale is produced. The more vascular areas have a greater incidence of involvement, e.g. metaphyses of bones and pedicles of vertebrae.