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We report on a 4-year-old boy adopted from Paraguay who presented with an acute onset of thigh pain. Initial clinical, imaging, and histopathologic findings suggested florid osteomyelitis. However, the development of pancytopenia on intravenous antibiotics prompted further investigation and the ultimate diagnosis of Gaucher disease. In retrospect, characteristic changes on conventional radiographic and MR images, as well as growth of a contaminant organism, pointed to the diagnosis of pseudo-osteomyelitis rather than osteomyelitis.
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Received: 21 November 2000 Revision requested: 13 December 2000 Revision received: 27 February 2001 Accepted: 28 February 2001
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Weisstein, J., Steinbach, L., Diamond, C. et al. Pseudo-osteomyelitic crisis upon presentation of Gaucher disease. Skeletal Radiol 30, 407–410 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002560100369
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