Back to Search
Start Over
Pseudo-osteomyelitic crisis upon presentation of Gaucher disease
- Source :
- Skeletal radiology. 30(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2001
-
Abstract
- We report on a 4-year-old boy adopted from Paraguay who presented with an acute onset of thigh pain. Initial clinical, imaging, and histopathologic findings suggested florid osteomyelitis. However, the development of pancytopenia on intravenous antibiotics prompted further investigation and the ultimate diagnosis of Gaucher disease. In retrospect, characteristic changes on conventional radiographic and MR images, as well as growth of a contaminant organism, pointed to the diagnosis of pseudo-osteomyelitis rather than osteomyelitis.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Bone disease
Biopsy
Pain
Disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Bone Marrow
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Femur
Gaucher Disease
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Osteomyelitis
Magnetic resonance imaging
medicine.disease
Pancytopenia
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Surgery
body regions
Radiography
Child, Preschool
Radiology
Osteitis
Presentation (obstetrics)
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03642348
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Skeletal radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b4d4db3da66b84f2a6dffa65118b2824