Imaging Findings and Evaluation of Metabolic Bone Disease

Figure 18

Osteopetrosis. Acute fracture of the right humeral diaphysis in a 46-year-old male with osteopetrosis on right humeral radiographs (a and b). Left humeral radiographs (c and d) in the same patient with chronic pathologic fracture deformity of the left humerus. The bones are diffusely dense with loss of normal corticomedullary differentiation.

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