A recent report details the first reported case of an osteolytic lesion in polycythemia vera and reviews current literature on osteolytic lesions in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) overall.

Multiple myeloma causes lytic or osteolytic lesions, which are areas of damage caused by cancerous plasma cells blocking natural bone growth. These lesions appear as small holes on X-rays. They often ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 44-year-old man was referred for evaluation of hypercalcemia. He had atraumatic rib and clavicle fractures in ...

Lytic bone disease is a major feature of multiple myeloma: 70% to 80% of patients have osteolytic lesions at diagnosis, and up to 90% develop lytic lesions during the course of their disease. 1 The ...

Improved diagnosis: Lytic bone lesions in a multiple myeloma patient are better visualized in the photon-counting detector (PCD) CT image (middle, solid arrows) than in the conventional low-dose CT ...