Limitations of routine skeletal survey: detection of critical but asymptomatic cervical spine lesion in multiple myeloma

BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Jul 4:2017:bcr2017221231. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-221231.

Authors

Syeda Sabeeka Batool¹, Ahmad Iftikhar², Aamir Nafees Ahmad³, Faiz Anwer²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine - Tucson, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: oncology; radiology.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Cervical Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Multiple Myeloma / diagnostic imaging*
Positron-Emission Tomography
Spinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Whole Body Imaging