[Imaging of osteosclerotic metastases]

J Radiol. 1995 Sep;76(9):561-72.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Carcinomas of the prostate and breast are the most common sources of osteosclerotic metastases. The osteoblastic response is related to stromal bone formation and reactive bone formation. Purely osteosclerotic or mixed osteolytic-osteosclerotic lesions are encountered. Frequent differential diagnoses are enostoses and Paget's disease. The classical MRI pattern is a signal of low intensity on T1 and T2- weighted sequences, but some osteoblastic metastases have an inhomogenous signal. Evaluation of the response to treatment is difficult and requires confrontation with clinical and biological data.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Bone Neoplasms / secondary
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Osteosclerosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed