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Clinical presentation:
A 45 year old man with anaemia.

There is a patchy destructive process, prodominantly in the medulla of the distal metaphysis of the right humerus. The process undermines and thins the cortex.

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[View large image] Metastasis. (case report) [View large image] Osteomyelitis in Sickle-cell disease. (case report)
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Primary lymphoma of bone. (case report)
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[View large image] Osteoclastoma. (case report) [View large image] Paget's disease, but lyic form.
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IDM April 2007