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| Skull x-ray will show hair-on-end appearance due to the widening of the diplöe as a result of marrow hyperplasia |
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| X-rays show lytic and blastic changes in the pelvis, the hip joint and the skull: cotton wool appearance in the skull brim sign [pelvic brim is sclerosed] shepherd’s crook deformity in the femur flame sign in the femoral shaft pathological fractures may also be present |
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| PAGET’S DISEASE OF BONE [Osteitis deformans] |
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X-rays in 70% of patients might show multiple lytic bone lesions [punched out or rain-drop lesions] mainly in the skull, long bones and vertebrae
Osteoporosis and blastic lesions may also be present |
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| Whitening of the Metaphysis |
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| Salt & Pepper appearance & Brown bone cysts |
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