A great mimicker of Bone Secondaries: Brown Tumors, presenting with a Degenerative Lumber Disc like pain

Abstract

This report presents an adult patient suffering from sacroiliitis like low back pain, lumbosacral radiculopathy and elbow swelling. Multimodality imaging revealed multiple lytic bone lesions located in supra acetabular iliac bone, sacrum, and distal end of radius. Painful numerous lesions due to the extension to the articular surfaces are not expected for Brown tumors. Less than ten cases with multiple Brown tumor due to primary hyperparathyroidism has been reported. Although Brown tumors are mostly diagnosed incidentally, this case would awake the physicians about rheumatological symptoms in the presentation of Brown tumors. Since Brown tumors are non-touch bone lesions that are expected to regress after parathyroid adenoma removal, it is important to distinguish Brown tumors from the giant cell tumors. Case Report A great mimicker of Bone Secondaries: Brown Tumors, presenting with a Degenerative Lumber Disc like pain Zuhal Bayramoglu1*, Ravza Yılmaz1 and Aysel Bayram2 1Department of Radiology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Capa, Fatih, 34093, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Pathology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Capa, Fatih, 34093, Istanbul, Turkey *Address for Correspondence: Dr. Zuhal Bayramoglu, Department of Radiology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Capa, Fatih, 34093, Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: +90-212414-20-00, Fax: +90-212-631-07-28; Email: incezuhal@yahoo.com Submitted: 06 June 2017 Approved: 14 July 2017 Published: 17 July 2017 Copyright: 2017 Bayramoglu Z. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.