Author/Authors :
Ziaee Vahid نويسنده , Abbasi Mehrshad نويسنده Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran
University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Farzanefar Saeed نويسنده Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vali-asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran , Salehi Yalda نويسنده Department of Nuclear Medicine, Vali-asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Abstract :
[Introduction]Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is a rare migratory skeletal disorder with non-infectious inflammatory etiology which usually causes bone pain in children and adolescents. Intermittent periods of exacerbation and remission are usually noted during the course of the disease. It is a multifocal bone disease usually involving the metaphyses of long bones. The clinical and Paraclinical findings are non-specific, and indeed CRMO is a diagnosis of exclusion based on multiple criteria.[Case Presentation]We present a 6-year-old boy with multiple periods of fever, systemic inflammation and bone pain since he was 2 years old, hospitalized multiple times, received antibiotics and finally diagnosed as a CRMO case. [Conclusions]CRMO should be diagnosed according to a variety of clinical and paraclinical findings. In children and adolescents with multiple bone lesions and lytic lesion, one of the differential diagnoses that should be considered is CRMO.
