Bone and Cartilage Tumors Flashcards

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What bone conditions might show lesions in the brain?

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Paget’s disease or osteoma

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What benign bone neoplasms can present on the epiphysis of a bone?

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Chondroblastoma or giant cell tumors

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What benign bone neoplasms can present on the metaphysis of long bones?

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  • osteoblastoma
  • osteochondroma
  • Non-ossifying fibroma
  • osteoid osteoma
  • Chondromyxoid fibroma
  • Giant cell tumor
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What benign bone neoplasms can present on the diaphysis of long bones?

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Enchondroma or Fibrous dysplasia

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What malignant bone neoplasma can present on the diaphysis of long bone?

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Ewing’s sarcoma or Chondrosarcoma

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What malignant bone neoplasma can present on the metaphysis of long bones?

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Osteosarcoma or Juxtacortical osteosarcoma

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What are the most common primary bone neoplasms?

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  • MM
  • osteosarcoma
  • chondrocytomas
  • Ewing’s sarcoma

Note that by far most bone tumors are metastatic carcinomas

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Age rule with bone neoplasms

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under 30= benign, over= malignant usually

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Metastasis of bone neoplasms is usally via ____

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venous circulation

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Patient population for osteoma?

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Adults and children (male slightly more than female)

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Describe osteomas

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bone formaing tumors composed of compact or mature trabecular bone that are confined almsot exclusively to cranial-facial bones (paranasal sinuses) and present with pain, headache, and vision changes

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Osteomas are associated with what?

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Gardner syndrome

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What is Gardner syndrome?

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a variant of familial adenomatous polyposis caused by APC gene mutations on chromosome 5q21

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MOI of Gardner syndrome?

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AD

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What is gardner syndrome characterized by primarily?

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multiple colon polyps

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Where else can extracolonic tumors present in Gardner syndrome?

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  • osteomas in the skull
  • thyroid cancers
  • epidermoid cysts
  • fibromas
  • desmoid tumors in approx. 15% of patient s
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What case the epidermoid cysts seen in Gardner syndrome?

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doubling of the squamous layer of skin with keratin debris in middle

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Describe osteoid osteomas

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benign tumors of young (less than 25) males associated with osteoblasts that produce osteoid surrounded by a rim of reactive bone (common in cortex of long bones of the leg)

less than 1.5cm in diameter

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How does osteoid osteoma present?

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(may be nocturnal) bone pain in the leg of a young male that resolves with aspirin

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How are osteoid osteomas treated?

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radiofrequency ablation

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Describe osteoblastomas.

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similiar to an osteoid osteoma but is LARGER (2+ cm), and is associated with dull bone pain but IS NOT relieved by aspirin

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How else are osteoblastomas differentiated from osteoid osteomas?

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more commonly found in the VERTEBRAE, in female and children, and NOT relieved by aspirin

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How are osteoblastomas treated?

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curettage or excision

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What bone neoplasm is characterized by a MALIGNANT proliferation of osteoblasts?

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osteocarcomas

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What patient population is common for osteosarcomas?

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60% male, ages 10-20

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Associations with osteocarcomas?

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Paget disease and post-radiation in older patients

as well as Rb gene (retinoblastoma)= poor prognosis

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Microscopic presentation of osteocarcoma?

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spindle cell appearance with unmineralized/osteoid bone

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How common is metastasis with osteocarcoma?

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20% will have lung METs at diagnosis

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Common spots for osteosarcoma?

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  • knee metaphysis (60%)
  • hip (15%)
  • shoulder (10%)
  • nasal (8%)
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Buzzword on xray with osterosarcoma?

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Codman Triangle- periosteal reaction (indicates an aggressive tumor)

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Buzzoword on bone biopsy with osteosarcoma?

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‘lace like’

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5 yr survival of osteosarcoma?

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about 75% in children and goes down with secondary disease

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Acquired genetic abnormalites associated with increased risk of osteosarcoma?

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Rb, a critical negative regulator of the cells (mutation= 1000x risk for OS.

TP53 mutation (li-Fraumeni syndrome or sporadic)

INK4a, (incodes tumor suppressors)

MDM2 and CDK4, cell cycle regulators that inhibit p53 and RB function, respectively

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What are the cartilage forming tumors?

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  • chondroma
  • osteochondroma
  • chondrosarcoma
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What are the types of chondroma?

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benign cartilaginous tumor that is classified as either:

1) enchondroma (arise from diaphyseal medullary cavity)
2) subperiosteal/juxtacortical chondroma
3) soft tissue chondroma

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What genes have been ID’d in the chondrocytes if syndromic and solitary enchondromas?

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IDH1 and IDH2 (also seen in gliomas and acute myeloid leukemia (AML))

IDH= isocitrate dehydrogenase

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What is the most common benign tumor of bone?

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osteochondroma

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Patient population for osteochondroma?

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mostly males, 10-20 yrs old

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Describe osteochondromas

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slow growing, painful benign tumors that usually stop growing at puberty and ossify

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What characteristic appearance do osteochondromas take on in x-ray?

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broccili/califlower appearance budding off bone

41
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Osteochondromas rarely transform to what?

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chondrosarcomas (5-10%)

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How are osterochondromas treated?

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simple excision

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Describe osteochondroma development

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intitially, at the epiphyseal plate, there is a small outpouching of cartilage, which grows proximally to the epiphyseal plate and comes to resemble a mushroom/califlower growing out of bone

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What covers the mushroom projection caused by osteochondromas?

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a cap of cartilage (dont fucking forget this)

45
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Describe enchondromas

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usually asymptomatic tumor that presents in the small bones of hands and feet and are mostly solitary

treatment= excision or nothing

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Patient population for enchondromas?

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20-49, no gender preference

47
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Note on multiple enchondromas

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may produce sever deformities; associated with chondrosarcoma transformation

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What is Maffuci syndrome?

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multiple enchondromas and soft tissue hemangiomas assoicated with ovarian carcinoma and brain gliomas

49
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What is Ollier disease?

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nonhereditary disease of multiple enchondromas of LONG bones and flat bones (up to 50% of skeleton) with associated skeletal deformities and often ovarian sexcord tumors

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T or F. Most lesions associated with Ollier disease progress into adulthood

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F. Most regress with skeletal maturation

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What are chondrosarcomas?

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malignant cartilage forming tumors (NO OSTEOID)

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Where do chondrosarcomas arise from?

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the medulla of the pelvis or central/axial skeleton

53
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Patient population for chondrosarcomas

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men in 40s

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What are the fibrous and Fibroosseous Tumors?

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  • Fibrous cortical defect

- Fibrous dysplasia

55
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What are fibrous cortical defects?

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NON-OSSIFYING fibromas greater than 5cm with an intramedullary component that is benign and typically asymptomatic

56
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Patient population for fibrous cortical defects?

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teenagers, no gender preference

57
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What causes fibrous cortical defects?

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probably developmental defects

58
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What causes fibrous dysplasia?

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benign tumor arising during development forming a intramedullary fibrous mass (fibrous tissue instead of medullary bone) resulting in painful swollen bones prone to fracture that presents in early adolescence

59
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What bones are most commonly affected by fibrous dysplasia?

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ribs and femur

60
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Types of fibrous dysplasia?

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  • monosodic
  • polysodic
  • McCUne-Albright Syndrome
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What is McCune-Albright Syndrome?

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fibrous dysplasia plus cafe-au-lait skin pigmentations and endocrine abnormalities, especially precocoius puberty

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What are giant cell tumors of bone?

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tumors of young adults (20-40s) arising from the epiphysis of long bones, typically the knee

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The neoplastic cells of giant cell tumors express what?

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high levels of RANKL

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Buzzword for giant cell tumors?

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soap bubble on x-ray

65
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What tumor is commonly described grossly as ‘fish flesh’?

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Ewing sarcoma (PNET)

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What causes Ewing sarcoma?

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malignant proliferation of poorly differentiated cells from NEUROECTODERM

second most common bone tumor in children after osteosarcoma

67
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Where are Ewing sarcomas commonly found in bone?

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diaphysis (medullary) in LONG bones

68
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Patient population of Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) (aka Ewing)?

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white male children under 15

69
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X-ray appearance of Ewings?

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onion skin

70
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Common mutation of Ewing’s?

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t(11,22) translocation (EWS-FLI1 fusion)

71
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How is Ewing’s treated?

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aggressive treated with neoadjuvant chemo followed by surgical excision with or without radiation

72
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Prognosis for Ewing’s?

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effective dchemo achieves 5-yr survival of 75% and long term cure of 50%

the amount of chemo-induced necrosis is an important prognostic finding

73
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T or F. Metastatic bone tumors are more common than primary

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T. Much

74
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Common places that go to bone?

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BLT with a Kosher Pickle

80% from breast, lung, and prostate

thyroid and kidney

75
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Why would metastatic tumors go to axial bone?

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it has a much richer blood supply

76
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Which MET bone cancer is associated with osteoblastic (bone forming) lesions?

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prostatic carcinoma

77
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Which MET bone cancer is associated with lytic lesions?

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MM (via icnreased osteoclast activation)

78
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T or F. All MET bone cancers are Stage IV with poor prognosis

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T. Except maybe lymphoma