Osteopoiquilia: caso clínico / Osteopoikilosis: clinical case

ABSTRACT

We report a 35 years old female presenting with a right wrist pain. Physical examination was normal but, on a band X ray examination, multiple dense para-articular bone foci were observed. Studying the rest of the skeleton, similar alterations were found in pelvis, knees, feet, shoulders and elbows. Osteopoikilosis is an infrequent eclerotic bone dysplasia. Its diagnosis is made by the observation of multiple dense, nodular and symmetrical images of para-articular location on bone X ray examinations. It has no clinical or pathological importance. Thus, it must be distinguished from osteoplastic bone metastases