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"Classification"
"Lucent or osteolytic bone lesions are descriptive radiological terms. Pathologically these findings can be represented by a wide spectrum of conditions including neoplastic, inflammatory and metabolic causes. These lesions are characterised either by the replacement of bone matrix by other types of tissue including soft tissue, fluid or fat. They are the result of uncoupling or imbalance in bone remodelling leading to osteoclast-mediated bone resorption that is triggered by tumour or inflammatory cells and by their surroundings 2,3."
"Lucent or osteolytic bone lesions are descriptive radiological terms. Pathologically these findings can be represented by a wide spectrum of conditions including neoplastic, inflammatory and metabolic causes. These lesions are characterised either by the replacement of bone matrix by other types of tissue including soft tissue, fluid or fat. They are the result of uncoupling or imbalance in bone remodelling leading to osteoclast-mediated bone resorption that is triggered by tumour or inflammatory cells and by their surroundings 2,3."
"As per definition, osteolytic lesions are radiolucent on plain radiographs and hypodense on CT with lower attenuation than the adjacent trabecular bone 1. This includes lesions with nonsclerotic fatty, liquid or solid soft tissue components. A better and more consistent quantitative definition for the term lucent does not yet exist 1."
"cortical, juxtacortical, centric or eccentric within cancellous bone"