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Primary periosteal lymphoma--rare and unusual.

Abdelwahab IF, Hoch B, Hermann G, Bianchi S, Klein MJ, Springfield DS

Department of Radiology, Coney Island Hospital, affiliated with Downstate School of Medicine, CUNY, New York, NY, USA.

We describe a primary periosteal lymphoma that involved only the periosteum without affecting the adjacent medulla or the regional lymph nodes. No other lymphomatous foci were found in either the distant lymph nodes or viscera. This unusual presentation simulates the imaging appearance of surface lesions of bone, namely benign and malignant tumors, and departs from the typical appearance of primary lymphoma of bone. Therefore, this rare type of lymphoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of surface bone lesions.

Published 26 February 2007 in Skeletal Radiol, 36(4): 335-9.
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