Expanding osteolytic bone metastases from carcinoma of the breast: an unusual appearance.
Two cases of carcinoma of the breast are reported with the unusual radiographic finding of expansile osteolytic bone metastases. It is stressed that when an osteolytic expansile bone lesion is seen in patients with known breast cancer, the most likely cause is a metastasis from the carcinoma of the breast.
D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D001862:Bone Resorption / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010014:Osteolysis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography