![]() | Related Articles |
Case report: vertebral overseas physique granuloma mimicking a skeletal metastasis.
Skeletal Radiol. 2018 Jan 20;:
Authors: Vossen JA, Bathaii SM, Hatfield B, Hayes CW
Summary
Intraosseous overseas physique granuloma formation associated to migrated surgical materials is a hardly ever reported situation with variable imaging look. On this case report, we describe a overseas physique granuloma that occurred in a lumbar vertebral physique one stage above a previous surgical fusion. The lytic look mimicked a skeletal metastasis in a 65-year-old affected person with not too long ago identified renal cell carcinoma. To one of the best of our information, that is the primary reported case of a lumbar vertebral overseas physique granuloma occurring distant from the location of surgical procedure, indistinguishable from skeletal metastasis on radiologic examination.
PMID: 29353406 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]