Osteopoikilosis. a clinical case
Guerra, M.; Gutiérrez, L.; Vergara, V.; East, F.
Revista Medica de Chile 123(7): 880-883
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-9887 PMID: 8560120 Document Number: 447129
We report a 35 years old female presenting with a right wrist pain. Physical examination was normal but, on a hand X ray examination, multiple dense para-articular bone foci were observed. Studying the rest of the skeleton, similar alterations were found in pelvis, knees, ankles, feet, shoulders and elbows. Osteopoikilosis is an infrequent sclerotic bone dysplasia. Its diagnosis is made by the observation of multiple dense, nodular and symmetrical images of para-articular location on bone X ray examinations. It has no clinical or pathological importance. Thus, it must be distinguished from osteoblastic bone metastases.