Table 1 Patients’ characteristics
From: Hematopoietic islands mimicking osteoblastic metastases within the axial skeleton
Patient | Age | Sex | Lesion localisation [n] | Lesion sizea | Previous malignancy | Primary CT-guided biopsy | MRI follow-up [months] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 66 | f | Thoracic spine [3] Lumbar spine [1] | 0,8 × 0,6 1,0 × 1,0 1,6 × 1,2 1,6 × 1,6 | Breast cancer | yes | 28b |
2 | 67 | f | Os sacrum [1] | 1,3 × 1,1 | Gastric SRCC | no | 96 |
3 | 64 | f | Os sacrum [1] | 1,1 × 1,2 | Breast cancer | yes | |
4 | 65 | f | Os sacrum [1] | 1,6 × 1,7 | no | yes | |
5 | 53 | f | Rib [1] | 1,8 × 0,8 | no | yes | 50 b |
6 | 50 | f | Lumbar spine [1] | 1,5 × 1,3 | Breast cancer (IDC) | no | 29 |
7 | 73 | f | Lumbar spine [1] | 1,0 × 0,9 | no | no | 20 |
8 | 72 | f | Thoracic spine [1] | 1,3 × 1,2 | no | no | 6 |
9 | 49 | m | Lumbar spine [1] Os ilium [1] | 1,0 × 1,0 1,2 × 1,3 | no | yes | |
10 | 74 | f | Lumbar spine [1] | 2,1 × 1,8 | no | no | 11 |
Total [n] 10 | Mean [years] 63.3 (49–74) Median [years] 65.5 | Male/ female ratio [n] 1/9 | Total [n] 14 | Mean [cm2] 1.72 (0.48–3.78) Median [cm2] 1.46 | Total [n] 4 | Total [n] 5 | Mean [months] 34.2 (6–96) Median [months] 28 |