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Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease
‘Brown tumors’ are known as ‘osteitis fibrosa cystica’ or ‘Von Recklinghausen’s disease’ of the bone. A high index of suspicion is required by the treating doctor for diagnosing a ‘brown tumor’ in its early stage. Clinical suspicion, along with laboratory and radiological investigations, is required...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26848420 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.431 |
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author | Vaishya, Raju Agarwal, Amit Kumar Singh, Harsh Vijay, Vipul |
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description | ‘Brown tumors’ are known as ‘osteitis fibrosa cystica’ or ‘Von Recklinghausen’s disease’ of the bone. A high index of suspicion is required by the treating doctor for diagnosing a ‘brown tumor’ in its early stage. Clinical suspicion, along with laboratory and radiological investigations, is required to diagnose this condition. We present a case of a 65-year-old woman who had multiple bony lesions and a thyroid nodule, which was initially considered as a metastatic bone disease, but later turned out to be ‘brown tumors.' In all cases with multiple osteolytic lesions, a possibility of ‘brown tumor’ must be kept in mind. |
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spelling | pubmed-47279552016-02-04 Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease Vaishya, Raju Agarwal, Amit Kumar Singh, Harsh Vijay, Vipul Cureus Other ‘Brown tumors’ are known as ‘osteitis fibrosa cystica’ or ‘Von Recklinghausen’s disease’ of the bone. A high index of suspicion is required by the treating doctor for diagnosing a ‘brown tumor’ in its early stage. Clinical suspicion, along with laboratory and radiological investigations, is required to diagnose this condition. We present a case of a 65-year-old woman who had multiple bony lesions and a thyroid nodule, which was initially considered as a metastatic bone disease, but later turned out to be ‘brown tumors.' In all cases with multiple osteolytic lesions, a possibility of ‘brown tumor’ must be kept in mind. Cureus 2015-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4727955/ /pubmed/26848420 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.431 Text en Copyright © 2015, Vaishya et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Other Vaishya, Raju Agarwal, Amit Kumar Singh, Harsh Vijay, Vipul Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease |
title | Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease |
title_full | Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease |
title_fullStr | Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease |
title_short | Multiple ‘Brown Tumors’ Masquerading as Metastatic Bone Disease |
title_sort | multiple ‘brown tumors’ masquerading as metastatic bone disease |
topic | Other |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26848420 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.431 |
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