Halo sign
Invasive aspergillosis
Fungus
Haemorrhagic mets
Adenocarcinoma
Wegeners
Renal papillary necrosis
POSTCARDS
P: pyelonephritis
O: obstruction
S: sickle cell disease
T: tuberculosis
C: cirrhosis
A: analgesic overuse
R: renal vein thrombosis
D: diabetes mellitus
S: systemic vasculitides
Medullary nephrocalcinosis
H: hyperparathyroidism
A: (renal tubular) acidosis
M: medullary sponge kidney/ milk-alkali syndrome
H: hypercalcaemia/hypercalciuria
O: oxalosis
P: papillary necrosis
Striated nephrogram
Dense metaphyseal bands
P: poisoning (lead, mercury, antimony, etc.)
R: rickets
I: infection (TORCH); idiopathic hypercalcaemia
N: normal variant; neoplastic (leukaemia, lymphoma)
C: congenital syphilis
E: endocrine (congenital hypothyroidism)
S: sickle cell disease; scurvy
Superscan
diffuse metastatic disease
prostatic carcinoma
breast cancer
urothelial carcinoma (UC)
multiple myeloma (some difference in opinion)
lymphoma
patchy uptake nonetheless: look at skull and ribs
tends to somewhat spare the distal skeleton
metabolic bone diseases
renal osteodystrophy
hyperparathyroidism 1 (often secondary hyperparathyroidism)
osteomalacia
will involve distal skeleton
smoother uptake
myelofibrosis/myelosclerosis
mastocytosis
widespread Paget disease
Wormian bones
P: pyknodysostosis
O: osteogenesis imperfecta
R: rickets
K: kinky hair syndrome
C: cleidocranial dysostosis
H: hypothyroidism/hypophosphatasia
O: otopalatodigital syndrome
P: primary acroosteolysis (Hajdu-Cheney)/pachydermoperiostosis/progeria
S: syndrome of Downs
