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Australas Radiol
October 2005
Department of Medical Imaging, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Intrathoracic extramedullary haematopoiesis occurring as a complication of osteopetrosis is uncommon. The combination of classic plain film and CT findings should suggest the diagnosis, which can be non-invasively confirmed with bone marrow scintigraphy.
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February 2005
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
July 2002
Division of the General Thoracic Surgery, Takarazuka Municipal Hospital, 4-5-1 Kohama, Takarazuka 665-0827, Japan.
We report a man with intrathoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis accompanied by marble bone disease who underwent thoracoscopic resection safely and definitively, followed by a radionuclide scan. Although intrathoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis is almost always accompanied by hemolytic anemia, this man's hematological data normalized. A consensus on the tumor genesis mechanism has yet to be reached, but the existence of marble bone disease in our case throws new light on the genetic mechanism in intrathoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis.
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