Vertebra Plana Caused by a Giant Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review
| Autor: | Jang Gyu Cha, Hee Kyung Kim, Jai Soung Park, Kwan Woong Park, Hae Kyung Lee, Won Han Shin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test Benign disease business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging Computed tomography Anatomy medicine.disease Vertebra Vertebral body medicine.anatomical_structure Eosinophilic granuloma Giant cell medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Giant Cell Tumors business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology. 62:579 |
| ISSN: | 2288-2928 1738-2637 |
| DOI: | 10.3348/jksr.2010.62.6.579 |
| Popis: | Vertebra plana is a radiologic diagnosis that indicatescomplete compression of the vertebral body (1).Although eosinophilic granuloma of the bone is themost frequent benign disease responsible for vertebraplana (2), it can be caused by several pathological condi-tions. Vertebral plana caused by a giant cell tumor(GCT) has been mentioned in only a few case reports inthe English medical literature, and those case reportswere without a detailed description (1). To the best ofour knowledge, the computed tomography (CT) andmagnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of GCT pre-senting as vertebra plana have seldom been reported inthe radiological literature. We report here on the case of |
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