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Taxonomy of Bone Metastases

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So we take a deeper dive

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into taxonomy bone metastases now.

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What we'll find are tumors can

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be osteoblastic. So these are tumors that activate the

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osteoblast to increase bone turnover

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here. We see prostate cancer an

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example of which match to the right front toe

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temporal calvarium increasing thickening

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of the calvarium in

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this patient with an osteoblastic metastasis,

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of course small cell lung

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cancer can do the same thing as skin carcinoiduloplastoma.

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now if there are patients that have Lucent lesions

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politic lesions

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These would be tumors that are activating the osteoclasts

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to break down bone. We think

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about in this category renal cell carcinomas melanomas

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and of the lung cancer the non

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small cell lung cancers.

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Thyroid cancer as well as Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

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can also break down bone creating lytic

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or Lucent lesions.

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When we think about conditions that really promote both

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blastic and lytic lesions breast

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cancer would be a classic one as

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can gastrointestinal cancers or

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squamous cell carcinomas.

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Faculty

Mikhail CSS Higgins, MD, MPH

Director, Radiology Medical Student Clerkships; Director, ESIR

Boston University Medical Center

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Oncologic Imaging

Non-infectious Inflammatory

Neoplastic

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

Interventional

Infectious

Iatrogenic

Fluoroscopy

CT

Bone & Soft Tissues