Multilocular bone tumour.

Multilocular bone tumour.

A Greek man age 65, right leg amputee, complained of back pain. On examination there was a large mass in the right groin. Investigation Pelvic radiograph and computed tomography. Figure 1 There is a disarticulation amputation at the right hip with a large well defined multilocular defect in the right ilium. Figure 2 A CT section through the sacrum shows a large, well defined expanding mass with...

Multilocular encephalomalacia.

The genesis of cavitation in the central nervous system presents an important problem. This holds true for porencephalia, syringomyelia, cystic tumours, Wilson's disease, and for cases of multilocular encephalomalacia. The last condition has been described under many different names which are summarized in Table I. I have accepted the name multilocular encephalomalacia as it combines in two wor...

Bone: Giant cell tumour

Temporomandibular joint clicking noises caused by a multilocular bone cyst: a case report.

When diagnosing patients with temporomandibular disorder (TMD) symptoms, the possibility of unusual causes must be considered, including neoplastic disorders, as well as infections and inflammatory disease. Therefore, radiologic examination may prove to be invaluable in the differential diagnosis of TMDs. This article describes a patient whose temporomandibular joint (TMJ) noise was initially d...

Desmoplastic fibroma of bone: A rare bone tumour

We identified thirteen patients with desmoplastic fibroma of bone treated at our institute over a 30 year period. The patients had a mean age of 25.9 years; eight were female. The incidence of desmoplastic fibroma of bone in all patients with benign bone tumours in our population is 0.003%. Surgical treatment ranged from primary amputation to intra-lesional curettage. The incidence of local rec...