Bone Flashcards
What is Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis?
Obese boys w/ dull achy pain in the hip and a limp
What is Legg-Calves-Perthes?
Limp
(Femur head Avascular necrosis)
What is Osgood-Schlatter?
Knee pain
(Tibial tubercle Avascular necrosis)
What is septic arthritis?
Joint pain w/ fever
D/t staph aureus
What is Ankylosing spondylitis?
Ligament ossification => vertebral body fusion
Decr lumbar curve
Stiffer in morning
Kyphosis
Uveitis
HLA-B27
What is Cauda equina syndrome?
“Saddle anesthesia”
Can’t feel butt, thighs, perineum
Where does bone cancer metastasis occur from?
Breast
Prostate
Lung
Kidney
What is costochondritis?
Painful swelling of chest joint-bone attachments
Worse w/ deep breath
What is disk herniation?
Straight leg raise => shooting pain
What is lumbar stenosis?
MRI “hourglass”
Low back pain
What is ochronosis = alkaptonuria?
Kids w/ OA
Black urine
Homogentisic acid oxidase deficiency
What is osteitis fibrosis cystica?
Inflammation of bone w/ holes due to high PTH
What is osteogenesis imperfecta?
Blue sclera
Multiple broken bones
What is Osteomalacia = Rickets?
Soft bones (waddling gait)
Craniotabes (soft skull)
Rachitic rosary (costochondral thickening)
Harrison’s groove
Pigeon breast (sternum protrusion)
What is osteomyelitis?
Infected bones
What is osteonecrosis = Legg-Calve-Perthes?
Wedge-shaped necrosis of femur head
What is osteopenia?
Lost bone mass
What is osteopetrosis?
Decr osteoclast activity => marble bones
(Obliterate own bone marrow)
What is osteoporosis?
Loss of bone matrix (not calcification)
=> compression fractures
What is osteosclerosis?
Thick bones from scarring
What is Paget’s disease?
“My hat doesn’t fit”
D/t paramyxovirus
Incr osteoclasts/blasts
Fluffy bone
Osteosarcoma
Incr cardiac output => heart failure
Deafness
Incr alkaline phos only
