Question

Chapter 9: HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM Read the following case study and answer the questions that follow: Susan is a 52-year-old mother of three. Recently she has been complaining of fatigue. She cannot seem to get rid of this bout of pneumococcal pneumonia, and now she says it feels like all of her bones hurt. Her physician orders a skeletal survey. 1. What do you suspect her physician is looking for? 2. What "type" of disease does Susan have? Is it proliferation of the plasma cells? 3. What do you Susan's skeletal survey will look like radiographically? 4. What is the percentage of bone loss that must occur before the disease can be visualized with conventional radiography? 5. What mod ifications, if any, in technical factors should be done with multiple myeloma and why? 6. Why is it important to know if a patient has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma prior to the injection of iodinated contrast media?

radiologic pathology

Answer 1

1. Her physician is suspecting cancer .

2. Multiple myeloma kind of cancer . There is proliferation of plasma cells in it .

3. In Skeleton survey tumora will look like punched - out lesions

4. Atleast 30% cancellous bone loss is required to visualise the disease with radiography.