US case of the day. Skeletal metastasis from poorly differentiated carcinoma of unknown origin.

Radiographics

Department of Radiology, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA.

Published: June 1997

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