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5. Lucent Lesions Flashcards

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Useful mnemonic fo lucent bone lesions

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FOG MACHINES
Fibrous Dysplasia
Osteoblastoma
Giant Cell Tumor

Metastasis, MYeloma
Aneurysmal bone cyst
Chondroblastoma
Hyperparathyroidism
Infection (Osteomyelitis)
Non-ossifying fibroma (NOF)
Enchondorma
Simple (uncameral) Bone cyst

Seriously in the real world bone lesions only come in 3 flavors;

  1. Bad (cancer or infection.
  2. Obviously benign
  3. Ehh hard to tell
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For multiple choice, when you encounter a lucent bone lesion you can expect one of two questions

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(1) what is it ? or (2) what is it associated with ?

A useful mental exercise when eliminating muhiple choice distractors is to ask yourself “why is it NOT this?”

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Best method to figure out lucent lesions:

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  1. Age = growth plates open? kid; no degen? - young adult; degen? - older than 40
  2. Location - Metaphysis, Epiphysis, Diaphysis?
  3. Classic locations and looks
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Age - Key FactsAn

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< 30 = EG, ABC, NOF, Chondroblastoma, SBC

Any age = Infection

> 40 = Mets and Myeloma (unless its neuroblastoma)

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Location - Key facts:

EPIPHYSIS

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Four horseman of the EPIPHYSIS!

AIG “the evil” Company = AIGC

Aneurysmal Bone cyst (ABC) - ABC is usually metaphyseal, but after the growth plate closes, it can extend into the epiphysis
Infection (osteomyelitis)
Giant cell tumor (GCT)
Chondroblastoma

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Benign epiphyseal = Four horseman of the Epyphisis (AIGC)

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Malignant Epiphyseal

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Benign epiphyseal = Four horseman of the Epyphisis (AIGC)
ABC, Infection,
vs

Malignant Epiphyseal = Clear Cell Chondrosarcoma

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Location - Key facts:

METAPHYSIS

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The metaphysis is the fastest growing area of a bone, with the best blood supply.

Increased predilection for Mets and Infection

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Fibrous Dysplasia

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skeletal developmental anomaly of osteoblasts

failure of normal maturation and differentiation which results in replacement of the normal medullary space.

“no periosteal reaction or pain,”

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Fibrous dysplaisa

Sheperd Crook

-Coxa VarusAngulation -Classicfor FD (but can be seen in Paget and Ol)

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Adamantinoma:

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A total zebra {probably a unicorn). A tibial lesion that resembles fibrous dysplasia (mixed lytic and sclerotic). It is potentially malignant.

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Nonossifying Fibroma (NOF) I Fibrous Cortical Defect (FCD)

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Very common - Childre - will regress

Location: Metaphysis near the physis

TESTABLE association: NF1

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“fibroxanthoma”

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Nonossifying Fibroma (NOF)’

eccentric with a thin sclerotic border (remember GCTs don’t have a sclerotic border).

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Jaffe-Campanacci Syndrome

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Syndrome o f multiple NOFs, cafe-au-lait spots, mental retardation, hypogonadism, and cardiac malformations. They’re at high risk for pathological fractures.

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Enchondroma

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This guy is a tumor of the medullary cavity composed of hyaline cartilage

Age: 10-30

The sneaky thing about this lesion is that it looks different depending on the body part it is in.

  • Humerus or Femur = Arcs and Rings
  • Fingers or Toes = Lytic
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Enchondroma

The ARCS AND RINGS is the more classic textbook look with the irregularly speckled calcification of chondroid matrix

Just like fibrous dysplasia, classic matrix is not found in the fingers or toes

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the most common cystic lesion in the hands and feet

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Enchondroma

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Differentiating Enchondroma vs Low Grade Chondrosarcoma

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Enchondroma

When multiple — especially when in the hands you should think syndromes

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Eosinophilic Granuloma (EG)

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This is typically included in every differential for people less than 30 (peak age is 5-10). It can be solitary (usually) or multiple.

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Eosinophilic Granuloma

There are 3 classic appearances - for the purpose of multiple choice:

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(1) Vertebra plana in a kid
(2) Skull with lucent “beveled edge” lesions (also in a kid).
(3) “Floating Tooth” with lytic lesion in alveolar ridge — this would be a differential case

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The appearance is highly variable and can be lytic or blastic, with or without a sclerotic border, and with or without a periosteal response. Can even have an osseous sequestrum.

As such, EG can be very similar in appearance to a Brodie abscess / subacute osteomyelitis (similar imaging, similar ages - peds).

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Classic DDx for Vertebra Plana (MELT)

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  • Mets / Myeloma
  • EG
  • Lymphoma
  • Trauma / TB
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Classic DDx for Osseous Sequestrum

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Osteomyelitis
Lymphoma
Fibrosarcoma
EG

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Giant Cell Tumor (GCT)

Key Criteria

  • Physis MUST be closed
  • Non Sclerotic Border
  • Abuts the articular surface
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Giant Cell Tumor (GCT)

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20-30 = physis closed (MUST)
Location: Knee - Most common
Association: ABC (can turn into them)
Quasi malignant (5% - lung mets)
Fluid levels on MRI

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“Pain at night, relieved by aspirin. ”

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Osteoid Osteoma

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Osteoid Osteoma

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Age: Adolescent 10-25

Oval lytic lesion (“lucent nidus”) surrounded by dense sclerotic cortical bone (“periosteal reaction”).

Most Classic Locations: FEMORAL NECK

  1. Meta/diaphysis of long bones (femoral neck = Most common)
  2. Posterior elements of the spine

Tx: percutaneou RF ablation

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Osteoid osteoma MRI

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“large amount of edema for the size of the lesion.”

30
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painful scoliosis with the convexity pointed away from the lesion.

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Osteoid osteoma

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osteoid osteoma that is larger than 2 cm

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Osteoblasoma

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< 30 years

They are most likely to show this in the posterior elements. It also occurs in the long bones (35%) and when it does it is usually diaphyseal (75%).

Mention when ABC is mentioned.

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Aneurysmal Bone Cyst (ABC)

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Aneurysmal bone cysts are aneurysmal lesions of bone with thin- walled, blood-filled spaces (fluid-fluid level on MRI).

Age: < 30
Location: Tibia > Vert > Femur > Humerus

Assoc: Up to 40% of secondary ABC’s are associated with giant cell tumor of bone.

DDx for fluid-fluid level on MRI

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Classic DDx for Lucent Lesion in Posterior Elements:

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Osteoblastoma
ABC
Met

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Solitary (Unicameral) Bone Cyst

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< 30
TUbular bones: Humerus, femur “Always located centrally.”

It’s going to be shown one of two ways:

(1) With a fracture through it in the humerus (probably with a fallen fragment sign) or

(2) As a lucent lesion in the calcaneus (probably with a fallen fragment sign).

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Solitary (Unicameral) bone Cyst

The “fallen fragment sign” (bone fragment in the dependent portion of a lucent bone lesion) is pathognomonic of solitary bone cyst.

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Brown Tumor (Hyperparathyroidism)

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localized accumulations of giant cells and fibrous tissue (in case someone asks)

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Hyperparathyroidism

They appear as lytic or sclerotic lesions with other findings of hyperparathyroidism (subperiosteal bone resorption).

In other words, they need to tell you he/ she has hyperparathyroidism first.

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Chondroblastoma

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Age: Kids (5-25)

They classically show it in two ways
(1) in the epiphysis of the tibia on a 15 year old, or
(2) in an epiphyseal equivalent: Patella, calcaneous, carpal bones, all the apophyses

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Chondroblastoma

A thin sclerotic rim, extension across the physeal plate (25-50%), periostitis (30%).

Actual location: femur > humerus > tibia

NOT T2 bright.

When you have a chondroblastoma in the hip, it tends to favor the GREATER TROCHANTER (more than thefemoral epiphysis).

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Chondromyxoid Fibroma

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This is the least common benign lesion of cartilage

< 30
METAPHYSIS: osteolytic, elongated in shape, eccentrically located,

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The HIP

Greater Trochanter

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Remember this is an epiphyseal equivalent and the chrondroblastomas prefer it to the femoral epiphysis.

Plus, you can have avulsions of the gluteus medius and minimus.

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The HIP

Lesser Trochanter

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An avulsion here without significant clinical history should make you think

pathologic fracture.

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The HIP

The Intertrochanteric Region

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Classic DDx here: Lipoma, Solitary Bone Cyst, Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia, Liposclerosing Myxofibroma.

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Classic (& sneaky non-classic) Lesions that can be shown in the calcaneus.

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First: use location within the bone

Second: use characteristic appearance as a secondary discriminator.

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Chondroblastoma in the Calcaneous

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Most classic epiphysis lesion

with a preference for the superior epiphysis near the talocalcaneal articulation (although they can be at any of the 3 epiphysis).

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GCT in the calcaneous

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Can also involve the epiphysis (although it typically starts out metaphyseal and grows into the epiphysis). Remember these things required a closed physis.

The Posterior Metaphysis / Epiphysis is favored.

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Osteid osteoma in the calcaneous

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Talus > Calcaneus
Similar to Chondroblastoma in favoring the superior epiphysis

Distinction is the sclerotic thickening of the adjacent bone and the radiolucent nidus.

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Older Patient + Subtalar degenerative change / Obvious Arthritis

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Geode

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Osteomyelitis & Mets in the calcaneous

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In both cases the involvement favors the posterior meta-epiphvseal region (which has the richest blood supply), with lesions potentially growing large enough to involve the entire calcaneus.

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Solitary Bone Cyst in the calcaneous

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The “fallen fragment” will be more in the bottom if shown

52
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intraosseous in the calcaneous

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53
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Pseudo-cyst in the calcaneus

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his area is sometimes called the “pseudo-cyst triangle” and is obnoxiously located in the same anterior 1/3 as the SBC and Lipoma.

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Metastatic Disease

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Should be on the differential for any patient over 40 with a lytic lesion.

RENAL CA is ALWAYS Lytic

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Classic Blastic Lesions

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Prostate, Carcinoid, Medulloblastoma

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Classic Lytic LesionL:

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Renal and Thyroid

57
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Prostate Met vs Bone Island??? =

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Bone scan

Bone island = mild
Prostate MEt = Hot

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Multiple Myeloma (MM)

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Plasma cell proliferation increases surrounding osteolytic activity (in case someone asks you the mechanism).

40s-90s

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Multiple Myeloma

They usually have discrete margins, and can be solitary or
multiple.

Additional classic (testable) scenario: MM manifesting as Diffuse Osteopenia

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Myeloma Related Condition

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Plasmacytoma (usually under 40):

“Mini Brain Appearance ”- Plasmacytoma in vertebral body

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POEMS syndrome:

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"”Myeloma with Sclerotic Mets.’’

Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal plasma cell disorder, Skin changes

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