Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis

Enhancement patterns of visceral venous collaterals are well documented in cases of superior vena cava obstruction. Only recently has intraosseous venous collateral enhancement been described. We describe an unusual case of vertebral marrow enhancement in the lower thoracic spine related to venous c...

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Autores principales: Pruente, R, Strickland, CD, Koo, PJ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150149
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description Enhancement patterns of visceral venous collaterals are well documented in cases of superior vena cava obstruction. Only recently has intraosseous venous collateral enhancement been described. We describe an unusual case of vertebral marrow enhancement in the lower thoracic spine related to venous collateral circulation caused by an incidental hemiazygos thrombus. Misinterpretation of this finding can lead to the erroneous interpretation of sclerotic bone metastases.
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spelling pubmed-61808262018-10-25 Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis Pruente, R Strickland, CD Koo, PJ BJR Case Rep Case Report Enhancement patterns of visceral venous collaterals are well documented in cases of superior vena cava obstruction. Only recently has intraosseous venous collateral enhancement been described. We describe an unusual case of vertebral marrow enhancement in the lower thoracic spine related to venous collateral circulation caused by an incidental hemiazygos thrombus. Misinterpretation of this finding can lead to the erroneous interpretation of sclerotic bone metastases. The British Institute of Radiology 2015-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6180826/ /pubmed/30363580 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150149 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Pruente, R
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Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis
title Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis
title_full Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis
title_fullStr Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis
title_full_unstemmed Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis
title_short Vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced CT in patients with venous thrombosis
title_sort vanishing bone metastases: a pitfall in contrast-enhanced ct in patients with venous thrombosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150149
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