PMC4898169_01
70-year-old male with prostate carcinoma. AP radiograph of the proximal right femur, showing an ill-defined osteolytic lesion of the right femoral neck and intertrochanteric ridge.
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A plain AP-view radiograph of the pelvis and right hip showed a osteolytic lesion in the superior aspect of the right femoral head (Fig. 1).
70-year-old male with prostate carcinoma. Radionuclide bone scan of the pelvis and right femur, revealing a solitary focus of abnormal intense radiotracer uptake within the interotrochanteric region of the right hip as well as the head of the right femur.
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70-year-old male with prostate carcinoma. Coronal T1-weighted MR image of the lower pelvis, showing abnormally decreased T1 signal in the right proximal femur, indicating marrow fat replacement with tumor.
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T1- and T2-weighted sequences. This suggested lytic destructive bone lesions due to a malignancy (Fig. 3).
70-year-old male with prostate carcinoma. Axial CT scan of the pelvis, showing mixed osteolytic lesion with sclerotic margins in right femoral neck.
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