Brown Tumor Mimicking Bone Metastasis in a Patient with Chronic Renal Failure

Brown tumor in a patient with hyperparathyroidism secondary to chronic renal failure.

Rare brown tumor location in chronic renal failure.

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Parathyroid cancer presenting with Brown tumours mimicking bone metastasis

Bone metastasis is the most common diagnosis considered for lytic lesions in the bone. Parathyroid cancer presenting as overt bone disease with diffuse lytic lesions secondary to untreated hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is a rare entity nowadays. We report the case of a 50-year-old Chinese lady who presented with diffuse bone lesions consistent with Brown tumours, vertebral body collapse and hyperca...

brown tumor of lumbar spine in chronic renal failure: a case report.

brown tumors may occur secondary to hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic renal failure (ckd). they are increasingly rare because hyperparathyroidism in now diagnosed and treated at an early stage. we report 67-year-old man who had been on hemodialysis for crf for over 3 years, who presented with back pain over the thoracolumbar junction from 2 years ago and because of pain he could not ...

Multiple Brown Tumors Mimicking Bone Metastasis: A Case Report

Received 8/4/2010; revised 8/24/2010; accepted 9/2/2010. For correspondence and reprints contact: Yum-Kung Chu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. 201 Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-28757301, E-mail: [email protected] Brown tumors are tumors of bone that arise in settings of excess osteoclast activity and will cause bone pain w...