Generalized Osteitis Fibrosa with Parathyroid Adenoma
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or disseminated sclerosis but I was told that she had had some pain around the groin, that her doctor had sent her for X-ray of the pelvis, and that a large destructive lesion had been found in one of the pubic rami. A surgeon saw her and advised that she should be admitted to a chronic hospital: the diagnosis was secondary tumours of bone. When I first looked at this X-ray picture of the pubis and one of the skull, which was taken because she had exophthalmos of one eye, I fell for the diagnosis and looked for
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