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Osteopoikilosis: what does the rheumatologist must know about it?

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Osteopoikilosis (OPK) is a rare, benign, and asymptomatic bone dysplasia that is developed during childhood and persists throughout life. This condition is generally found incidentally on plain radiographies made by other reasons. The main differential diagnosis is osteoblastic metastasis. So, OPK must be in differential diagnosis when bone lesions are identified on plain radiograph to avoid alarming the patient with more serious disease and misdiagnosis. In this paper, we review the clinical manifestation, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of OPK.

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  1. Departamento de Clínica Médica, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Campus Universitário, RS 509, km 9, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 97105-900

    Tiago Geraldo Woyciechowsky & Márcio Rafael Monticielo

  2. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Briele Keiserman

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

    Odirlei Andre Monticielo

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Woyciechowsky, T.G., Monticielo, M.R., Keiserman, B. et al. Osteopoikilosis: what does the rheumatologist must know about it?. Clin Rheumatol 31, 745–748 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-011-1916-x

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