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Clinical presentation:
Female aged 49 years, sudden onset of pain in the left elbow, after a fall.

There is a pathological fracture of the olecranon of the left ulna, through a lytic lesion in the bone. The cyst-like lesion lies immediately adjacent to the elbow joint and has a well-defined margin. The endosteal margin has a narrow zone of transition between normal and abnormal bone. There is no indication of a lamellar periosteal reaction. The skeleton is mature. Anterior soft tissue density is probably an elbow joint effusion.

[osteoclastoma] [Path. fracture]


[Differential]

cases that might resemble this pathology

[View large image] Aneurysmal bone cyst. (case report) [View large image] Enchondroma with fracture. (case report) Include Chondrosarcoma
[View large image] Chondromyxoid fibroma. (case report) [View large image] Metastasis. (case report)
[View large image] Plasmacytoma, myeloma. (case report) [View large image] Brown tumours of Hyperparathyroidism. (case report)
[View large image] Include granulomas, Tuberculosis. (case report)
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or Sarcoidosis. (case report)
[View large image] Consider possibility of sub-articular cysts, as in Rheumatoid arthritis. (case report) [View large image] Tophi in Gout. (case report)
[View large image] Paget's disease. (case report)
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IDM April 2007