Sclerotic bone metastases

Sclerotic or blastic bone metastases can arise from a number of different primary malignancies including ^1-5:

• prostate carcinoma (most common)
• breast carcinoma (may be mixed)
• transitional cell carcinoma (TCC)
• carcinoid
• medulloblastoma
• neuroblastoma
• mucinous adenocarcinoma of the gastrointestinal tract (e.g. colon carcinoma, gastric carcinoma)
• lymphoma (e.g. ivory vertebra)
• small cell lung cancer
• post-treatment appearance of any lytic metastasis
• pulmonary adenocarcinoma
• medullary thyroid carcinoma