Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology which can affect the lungs and lymph nodes, skin, eyes other organs and, in rare cases, bones bone marrow cells. We present case 39-year-old male patient with an iliac involvement sarcoidosis mimicking malignancy. Lymphoma metastatic cancer proved challenge to discard differential diagnosis. He underwent multiple biopsies including tru-cut lung paren...

Articular involvement was reported to be present in approximately 5-76% of Behçet patients. Therefore, we need a useful non-invasive method to detect articular involvement early in Behçet patients with nonspecific complaints. We aimed to evaluate the usefulness of 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (Tc-99m-MDP) bone scintigraphy in the detection of the articular involvement of Behçet's disease (BD)....

Introduction: Involvement of the skeleton can cause an excruciating pain in two-thirds of terminal patients with a history of malignancy. Due to several limitations of other therapies, such as analgesics, bisphosphonates, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and external beam radiotherapy; bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals have an important role in palliation of pain from bone metastases. Although th...

bone marrow is infrequently implicated in early stages of hodgkin’s disease. we studied the immunohistochemical bone marrow tissue of 7 out of 20 cases with early stage hodgkin’s disease of the mixed cellularity variant, diagnosed by lymph node biopsy at initial presentation, not responding to radiotherapy alone, in order to examine possible marrow attack. a statistically significant prevalence...

The appendix is an unusual site for extramedulary relapse in acute leukemia. The present case report describes two cases of late course acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented with leukemic infiltration of the appendix and complete remission of bone marrow. The signs and symptoms of the cases suggest that leukemic involvement of the appendix should be considered in the differential diagnosis of ...

Background & Importance: Hydatid disease of the spine is rare but constitutes approximately 50% of bone involvement cases in human hydatidosis. It is a severe condition associated with a high rate of morbidity, disability and mortality. Case Presentation: In the present paper, we report an intriguing case of cervical spinal hydatid disease mimicking traumatic burst fracture. Con...

We retrospectively studied 156 patients with non-Hodgkin's; ymphoma (NHL) in order to evaluate the incidence of bone marrow (BM) involvement at the time of diagnosis. The incidence of marrow involvement in NHL was 35% (55 patients). The most common histologic type of lymphoma was diffuse large cell lymphoma with 30% of the cases having bone marrow involvement. The highest incidence of marrow in...