CT is more sensitive than plain films for the detection of early bone destruction and effusion.
Sometimes the bone destruction spontaneously ceases and no treatment is required.
Osteolytic hypercalcemia results from direct bone destruction by primary or metastatic tumor.
Recently, some success has been claimed with a second such treatment, bisphosphonate medications that inhibit bone destruction.
Bisphosphonates have shown great promise in reducing bone cancer pain, bone destruction, and tumor growth.
Patients should realize gingival inflammation and bone destruction are largely painless.
As we age, the process can skew toward bone destruction, leading to porous, weak bones that break easily a condition called osteoporosis.
Nobody knows why, but the pressurized environment causes bone destruction in the leg and hip.
These tumours may be accompanied by a large soft tissue mass while there is almost no visible bone destruction.
Although several treatments for osteoporosis are now available, they mainly work to inhibit further bone destruction.