title: Gorham's disease of the chest wall: CT and MR characteristics.
abstract: We report a case of Gorham's disease of the chest wall in a 29-year-old man. A chest radiograph showed osteolysis of the left first, second, and third ribs. CT and MR images revealed a soft tissue mass around the affected ribs. The mass presented as having heterogeneous high signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images, and it showed minimal enhancement on contrast-enhanced MR images. A histologic specimen obtained by incisional biopsy from the left third rib revealed proliferation of lymphangiomatous tissue in the bone marrow. A diagnosis of Gorham's disease was made based on these clinical, radiologic, and histologic findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okafuji
authors.forename: Hidetake
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yabuuchi
authors.forename: Hiroyasu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Soeda
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Masamitsu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hatakenaka
authors.forename: Shuji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Yunosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishihara
authors.forename: Naotaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Inoshima
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Honda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010015:Osteolysis, Essential / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012272:Ribs; D035441:Thoracic Wall; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed