title: Indolent systemic mastocytosis: is there a reliable radiographic pattern?
abstract: A 14-year-old boy undergoing treatment for nephrotic syndrome with steroids and cyclosporine presented with small sclerotic bone lesions in a routine chest radiograph. Similar lesions were found in other bones of the axial and appendicular skeleton. Despite the paucity of clinical symptoms and absence of laboratory data suggesting systemic mastocytosis, the diagnosis of an indolent form of this disorder was made based on radiographic signs and confirmed by biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Rua Marechal Campos 1355, Vitoria 29042-715, Brazil. flaviasbraga@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Flávia Silva
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: Gabriel Antônio
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: de Oliviera
authors.forename: Adriana Maria Fonseca
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de Melo
authors.forename: Lívia Guidoni
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: de Assis Barbosa
authors.forename: João Vinícius Cremasco
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Fraga
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D034721:Mastocytosis, Systemic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D009404:Nephrotic Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic