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Tam O’Shanter Sign
Named after the character in Robert Burn’s[1] poem of the same name, a Tam O’Shanter is a Scottish hat (picture here). The appearances of advanced Paget’s disease of the skull are similar.
Other Paget’s disease related signs
- blade of grass sign
- jigsaw pattern bone or mosaic pattern bone
- picture frame vertebra
- cotton wool appearance of bone
- banana fracture
Other inanimate object inspired signs at Radiopaedia.org here.
References
- S. Smith “Radiologic Spectrum of Paget Disease of Bone and Its Complications with Pathologic Correlation” RadioGraphics. 2002;22:1191-1216
- P. Richards “Paget’s Disease Causing an Arnold-Chiari Type 1 Malformation” AJR 2001; 176:816-817
- January 18th, 2008
- Head & Neck, Musculoskeletal
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