Question

if considering a differential diagnosis of multiple myeloma and lymphoma in a 50-year-old patient with motheaten osteolysis similar to the case in the humerus, which diagnosis would be more likely?
please select your answer...
a lymphoma
b multiple myeloma

Explanation:

Motheaten (punched-out) osteolytic lesions are a classic and highly characteristic radiographic finding in multiple myeloma, which far more commonly presents with this bone pattern compared to lymphoma in adult patients.

Answer:

B. multiple myeloma