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Focal nodular and diffuse haematopoietic marrow hyperplasia in patients with underlying malignancies: a radiological mimic of malignancy in need of recognition.

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AIM:To report the authors' experience of focal nodular haematopoietic marrow hyperplasia (FNHMH) and diffuse haematopoietic marrow hyperplasia (DHMH) clinically masquerading as skip, distant, or disseminated metastasis in seven patients with underlying malignant neoplasms. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Five patients with FNHMH and two with DHMH mistaken radiologically as skip and disseminated metastasis, respectively, were compared and contrasted with four patients with osteosarcomas and two with chondrosarcomas harbouring skip metastasis, noting the temporal relationship with their haematological profile. RESULTS:FNHMH and DHMH were undetectable by plain radiography and computed tomography (CT) except one showing subtle sclerosis on CT. They showed either isointense or hyperintense, but not hypointense, attenuation at T1-weighted imaging, and all showed hyperintense attenuation at T2-weighted MRI relative to skeletal muscle. Of the five patients who underwent bone scintigraphy, one showed mildly increased uptake, and one out of two showed markedly increased 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG)-positron-emission tomography (PET) uptake. The rates for sarcoma skip metastasis by plain radiography, CT, MRI, and bone scintigraphy were 40%, 66.7%, 100%, and 66.7%, respectively. At MRI, 60% showed hypointense and 40% isointense attenuation at T1-weighted, 80% hyperintense and 20% hypointense attenuation at T2-weighted imaging. Combined FDG-PET and CT, which was performed in only one patient, failed to show the skip metastasis. Not every patient with FNHMH or DHMH received granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (GCSF), but all had low or falling haemoglobin levels, which may thus be the prime cause for HMH. CONCLUSIONS:Due to overlapping radiological features, FNHMH and DHMH are great radiological mimics of malignancy. In some cases, needle biopsy is required for their definitive differentiation.

journal_name

Clin Radiol

journal_title

Clinical radiology

authors

Chow LT,Ng AW,Wong SK

doi

10.1016/j.crad.2016.10.015

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-03-01 00:00:00

pages

265.e7-265.e23

issue

eissn

0009-9260

issn

1365-229X

pii

S0009-9260(16)30438-X

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Focal nodular and diffuse haematopoietic marrow hyperplasia in patients with underlying malignancies: a radiological mimic of malignancy in need of recognition.