Describing Bone Tumour X-rays
1. Pattern of bone destruction
Geographic
Least aggressive
- usually indicative of slow growing lesion
- usually seen in benign tumours
- may be myeloma / mets / OM
Narrow transition from normal to abnormal bone
- Margin of the lesion is well defined
- margin is easily separated from surrounding bone
- margin may be smooth / irregular, sclerotic / non sclerotic