Metastatic Tumours - 5th lumbar vertebra3D Model
http://www.digitiseddiseases.org/mrn.php?mrn=B1117#
Bone: 5th lumbar vertebra Age: Mature adult Sex: Male
Pathology description
There are multiple fine osteolytic lesions on the anterior and lateral surfaces of the body, the costal processes, and on the inferior articular process. The anterior margin of the superior surface has pitting, porosity and slight osteophytosis adjacent to a small area of coarse new woven bone on the anterior surface.
The lesions presented here are the result of metastatic carcinoma of the prostate. However, there is a mixture of pathological lesions distributed throughout the skeleton that are consistent with the individual having co-existing metastatic carcinoma and leprosy. Elements of the lower limb that have leprous lesions or a mixture of lesions from both diseases have been omitted from this project to prevent confusion. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate is characterised by osteosclerotic lesions and deposition of periosteal new bone (Ortner et al 1991).
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