A great mimicker of Bone Secondaries: Brown Tumors, presenting with a Degenerative Lumber Disc like pain
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
Abstract
<small>This report presents an adult patient suffering from sacroiliitis
like low back pain, lumbosacral radiculopathy and elbow swelling.
Multimodality imaging revealed multiple lytic bone lesions located in
supra acetabular iliac bone, sacrum, and distal end of radius. Painful
numerous lesions due to the extension to the articular surfaces are not
expected for Brown tumors. Less than ten cases with multiple Brown tumor
due to primary hyperparathyroidism has been reported. Although Brown
tumors are mostly diagnosed incidentally, this case would awake the
physicians about rheumatological symptoms in the presentation of Brown
tumors. Since Brown tumors are non-touch bone lesions that are expected
to regress after parathyroid adenoma removal, it is important to
distinguish Brown tumors from the giant cell tumors.</small