Salt and pepper sign (skull)
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Salt and pepper sign or pepper pot skull refers to multiple tiny well-defined lucencies in the calvaria caused by resorption of trabecular bone in hyperparathyroidism.
There is a loss of definition between the inner and outer tables of the skull and a ground-glass appearance as well as spotty deossification.
Occasionally, the term is used synonymous (although inaccurately) with raindrop skull appearance of multiple lytic lesions of multiple myeloma 4.
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-<p><strong>Salt and pepper sign</strong> or <strong>pepper pot skull </strong>refers to multiple tiny well-defined lucencies in the calvaria caused by resorption of trabecular bone in <a href="/articles/hyperparathyroidism">hyperparathyroidism</a>.</p><p>There is a loss of definition between the inner and outer tables of the skull and a ground-glass appearance as well as spotty deossification.</p><h4>See also</h4><ul><li>- +<p><strong>Salt and pepper sign</strong> or <strong>pepper pot skull </strong>refers to multiple tiny well-defined lucencies in the calvaria caused by resorption of trabecular bone in <a href="/articles/hyperparathyroidism">hyperparathyroidism</a>. There is a loss of definition between the inner and outer tables of the skull and a ground-glass appearance as well as spotty deossification.</p><p>Occasionally, the term is used synonymous (although inaccurately) with <a href="/articles/raindrop-skull">raindrop skull</a> appearance of multiple lytic lesions of multiple myeloma <sup>4</sup>.</p><h4>See also</h4><ul><li>
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- 4. Healy CF, Murray JG, Eustace SJ et-al. Multiple myeloma: a review of imaging features and radiological techniques. Bone Marrow Res. 2011;2011: 583439. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/583439">doi:10.1155/2011/583439</a> - <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3200072">Free text at pubmed</a> - <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22046568">Pubmed citation</a><span class="auto"></span>
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