The strange disease caused the patient's bones to

Very calm if this dreadful situation happens to you .

If you are a doctor, calm attitude is always very important in the countless situations that you may encounter in the hospital. One of those situations is that a patient's bones can . evaporate right before your eyes .

This strange disease is called Gorham-Stout disease.

This patient is a perfectly healthy 44-year-old woman. She went to see a doctor because she felt pain in her left shoulder. Results of shoulder joint X-rays show lesions in the collarbone, and doctors immediately think about diagnosing cancer. However, the results of biopsy are not clear. The biopsy again a few months later had a negative result. But things didn't stop there, when the pain of the patient continued to persist.

And this is the strange thing that happened: 18 months later, the patient came back for a follow-up examination and discovered that the collarbone and head on the arm bone had completely disappeared from the X-ray film. The pain was still dull, and even the patient noticed that his hands were swollen and swollen, even with only minor bumps.

Only when high-end imaging techniques are used, doctors find the problem: the newly created blood vessels have overgrown, and obscured the image of these bones in the film. And the biopsy results show that this strange disease is called Gorham-Stout disease .

This disease only manifests itself on one part of the body.

The level of disease varies slightly depending on the individual infected, but in most cases, the disease is localized , meaning that it only manifests itself on a part of the body , like the spine, the skull base. , or bones in the legs and arms. At severe levels, the disease may appear in the ribs, causing pleural effusion and may lead to manifestations of dyspnea.

The main treatment with this disease is the surgical removal of the diseased area, radiotherapy to prevent recurrence and the use of downlink bisphosphonate to prevent bone resorption. In some cases, the disease can improve itself without treatment.