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Clinical, radiologic, and pathologic findings in an unusual case of massive osteolysis are described. Peculiar clinical episodes of a foul body odor with fever and erythematous skin lesions, presence of radiographic findings such as acro-osteolysis and periarticular erosions, and the absence of angiomatous or lymphangiomatous dysplasias at autopsy, indicate that this is a new form of massive osteolysis rather than a variant of Gorham disease.
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Pastakia, B., Horvath, K. & Lack, E.E. Seventeen year follow-up and autopsy findings in a case of massive osteolysis. Skeletal Radiol 16, 291–297 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00361471
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