Case report of a patient with osteopoikilosis

Osteopoikilosis (OPK) is an uncommon osteosclerotic dysplasia. There is no exact evidence of its etiology and pathogenesis. Usually, it is an asymptomatic disease, and the diagnosis is made incidentally from radiographs, which show multiple, small, well-defined, variably shaped and widely distribute...

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Published inRheumatology international Vol. 32; no. 9; pp. 2829 - 2832
Main Authors Inci, Mehmet Fatih, Vurdem, Ümit Erkan, Gümüş, Hatice, Inci, Rahime
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.09.2012
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Back Pain - etiology
Humans
Incidental Findings
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Original Article
Osteopoikilosis - complications
Osteopoikilosis - diagnostic imaging
Rheumatology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Osteopoikilosis
Osteosclerotic dysplasia
Osteopathia condensans disseminata
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Summary:Osteopoikilosis (OPK) is an uncommon osteosclerotic dysplasia. There is no exact evidence of its etiology and pathogenesis. Usually, it is an asymptomatic disease, and the diagnosis is made incidentally from radiographs, which show multiple, small, well-defined, variably shaped and widely distributed sclerotic areas over the skeleton. In this study, we report a 54-year-old man who suffers from back and leg pain and was diagnosed OPK by radiologically and review literature.
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ISSN:0172-8172
1437-160X
DOI:10.1007/s00296-011-2072-y