Tumor - bone
Symptoms
- Bone fracture, especially fracture from slight injury (trauma)
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Bone pain , may be worse at night - Occasionally a mass and swelling can be felt at the tumor site
Note: Some benign tumors have no symptoms.
Signs and tests
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Alkaline phosphatase -
Bone biopsy -
Bone scan -
MRI -
X-ray of bone
This disease may also affect the results of the following tests:
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Alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme -
Calcium (ionized) -
Extremity x-ray -
Hands x-ray -
Joints x-ray -
PTH -
Serum calcium -
Serum phosphorus
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