Radiology Rounds

Round # 15

• Back to Clinical History and Radiographs
• What is the Differential Diagnosis?
• What is the Correct Diagnosis?

Radiographic Findings

Spine radiographs reveal the classic sandwich vertebrae of osteopetrosis (red arrows). This is manifested as thickening and sclerosis of the vertebral endplates, and of the bone adjacent to the endplates. There is also marked thickening of the posterior vertebrae (yellow arrows), especially in the vertebral arch. Skull X-ray (not shown) reveals basilar sclerosis with sparing of the calvaria, and films of the pelvis (not shown) show a bone-within-bone appearance of the iliac wings.

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