title: Solitary bone lesions: which ones to worry about?
abstract: The question is not classic: which signs suggest a possible malignancy when faced with a solitary bone lesion? Usually radiologists try to identify the leave me alone lesions, for which nothing is needed. Here we consider the suspicious lesions. Clinical and radiological indicators are proposed, leading to a probability. Nowadays, a biopsy is nevertheless always requested before treating a malignant lesion, even if suspicion is very high. But histology should integrate with the radiological signs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy. daniel.vanel@ior.it
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vanel
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rimondi
authors.forename: Maia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vanel
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gambarotti
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alberghini
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed