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Bone and Soft Tissue Tumours Flashcards

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What are the two different categories of tumours?

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  • Benign
  • Malignant
    • Primary
    • Secondary
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What is a sarcoma?

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Is malignant tumour arising from connective tissues

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How do sarcomas spread?

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  • Spreads along fascial planes
  • Haematogenous spread to lungs
  • Rarely to regional lymph nodes
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For bone tumours, which of benign and malignant is more common?

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Benign are common, malignant are rare

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Are bone secondaries common or rare?

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Bony secondary’s are very common, if bony tumour patient is >50 years likely to be metastatic

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What are benign and malignant bone forming tumours?

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  • Benign
    • Osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma
  • Malignant
    • Osteosarcoma
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What are benign and malignant cartilage forming tumours?

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  • Benign
    • Enchondroma, osteochondroma
  • Malignant
    • Chondrosarcoma
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What are benign and malignant fibrous tissue tumours?

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  • Benign
    • Fibroma
  • Malignant
    • Fibrosarcoma, malignant fibrous histiocytoma
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What are benign and malignant vascular tissue tumours?

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  • Benign
    • Haemangioma, aneurysmal bone cyst
  • Malignant
    • Angiosarcoma
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What are benign and malignant adipose tissue tumours?

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  • Benign
    • Lipoma
  • Malignant
    • Liposarcoma
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What are bone marrow tumours?

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  • Malignant
    • Ewing’s sarcoma, lymphoma, myeloma
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What does GCT stand for?

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Giant cell tumours

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Are giant cell tumours (GCT) benign or malignant?

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  • Giant cell tumours (GCT)
    • Are benign, locally destructive and can rarely metastasis
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What are some examples of tumour like lesions?

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  • Benign
    • Simple bone cyst
    • Fibrous cortical defect
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What are the most common malignant bone tumours in younger and older patients?

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  • Osteosarcoma in younger patient
  • Myeloma in older patient
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What is a common history of tumours?

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  • Pain
  • Mass
  • Abnormal x-rays (usually incidental)
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Describe the pain due to bone tumours?

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  • Pain
    • Activity related
    • Progressive pain at rest and night
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How do benign bone tumours often present?

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  • May present with activity related pain if large enough to weaken bone
  • Example is osteoid osteoma
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What parts of examination are important for bone tumours?

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  • General health
  • measurements of mass
  • location
  • shape
  • consistency
  • mobility
  • tenderness
  • local temperature
  • neuro-vascular deficits
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What investigations are done for tumours?

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  • Plain x-rays - most useful for bone lesions
    • Calcification - synovial sarcoma
    • Myositis ossificans
    • Phleboliths in haemangioma
    • Inactive
      • Clear margins
      • Surrounding rim of reactive bone
      • Cortical expansion can occur with aggressive benign lesions
    • Aggressive
      • Less well defined zone of transition between lesion and normal bone
      • Cortical destruction is an indicator of malignancy
  • CT
    • Assessing ossification and calcification
    • Integrity of cortex
    • Staging
  • Isotope bone scan
    • Staging for skeletal metastasis
    • Specific for osteochondroma, enchondroma, fibrous dysplasia and histiocytosis
  • MRI
    • Size, extend, anatomical relationship
    • Specific for lipoma, haemangioma, haematoma or PVNS
  • Angiography
    • Embolism of vascular tumours
  • PET
    • May be useful for investigating response to chemotherapy
  • Biopsy
    • Is how tumour is defined (what kind of tumour)
    • Before biopsy, bloods and x-ray, maybe MRI of lesion, bone scan and CT of chest
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What kind of tumours are plain x-rays most useful for?

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Bone tumours

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How do inactive and aggresive tumours differ on plain x-rays?

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  • Inactive
    • Clear margins
    • Surrounding rim of reactive bone
    • Cortical expansion can occur with aggressive benign lesions
  • Aggressive
    • Less well defined zone of transition between lesion and normal bone
    • Cortical destruction is an indicator of malignancy
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What is CT useful for for bone tumours?

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  • Assessing ossification and calcification
  • Integrity of cortex
  • Staging
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What imaging technique is used to stage skeletal metastasis?

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Isotope bone scan

25
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What are MRIs useful for?

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  • Size, extend, anatomical relationship
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Isotope bone scans are specific for what tumours?

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  • Specific for osteochondroma, enchondroma, fibrous dysplasia and histiocytosis
27
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MRI are specific for what tumours?

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Specific for lipoma, haemangioma, haematoma or PVNS

28
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What is angiography useful for?

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  • Embolism of vascular tumours
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What are PET scans useful for?

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  • May be useful for investigating response to chemotherapy
30
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What is done to define a tumour (as benign or malignant)?

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  • Biopsy
    • Is how tumour is defined (what kind of tumour)
    • Before biopsy, bloods and x-ray, maybe MRI of lesion, bone scan and CT of chest
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What is the presentation of malignant primary bone tumours?

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  • Cardinal features
    • Increasing pain
    • unexplained pain
    • Deep-seated boring nature
    • Night pain
    • Difficulty weight-bearing
    • Deep swelling
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What are some examples of malignant primary bone tumours?

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  • Osteosarcoma
  • Ewings sarcoma
  • Chondrosarcoma
33
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Does osteosarcoma affect more males or females?

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Males

34
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What are the clinical features of osteosarcoma?

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  • Pain
    • Cardinal feature
    • Analgesics eventually ineffective
    • Not related to exercise
    • Character – deep boring ache, worse at night
  • loss of function
    • Limp
    • Reduced joint movement
    • Stiff back
  • Swelling
  • pathological fracture
  • joint effusion
  • deformity
  • neurovascular effects
  • systemic effects of neoplasia
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What investigation should be done for osteosarcoma?

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  • MR scan
    • Investigation of choice
    • Very good for showing
      • intraosseous (intramedullary) extent of tumour
      • extraosseous soft tissue extent of tumour
      • joint involvement
      • skip metastases
      • epiphyseal extension
    • Determines resection margins
36
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What is the treatment of osteosarcoma?

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  • Chemotherapy
  • Surgery
    • Limb salvage usually possible
    • Consider involvement of neurovascular structures
  • Radiotherapy
37
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Is primary or metastatic bone disease more common?

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Metastatic bone tumours 25x more common than primary:

  • Most common site for secondary’s after lung and liver
38
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What area of the body most commonly metastasises to bone?

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Breast

39
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What site of the skeleton is most common for secondary tumours in order of 1 to 6?

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  1. Vertebrae
  2. Proximal femur
  3. Pelvis
  4. Ribs
  5. Sternum
  6. Skull
40
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What are the 7 most common primary timours that metastasis to bone in order?

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  1. LUNG - smoker; CXR, sputum cytology
  2. BREAST - commonest; examine!
  3. PROSTATE - osteosclerotic 2°; PR, PSA
  4. KIDNEY - solitary, vascular; IVP + US, angiography & embolise
  5. THYROID - esp. follicular Ca; examine
  6. GI TRACT - FOB, endoscopy, Ba studies, markers
  7. MELANOMA - examine!
41
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What is a pathological fracture?

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Bone fracture that is caused by disease

42
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How are pathological fractures prevented?

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  • Early chemotherapy
  • Prophylactic internal fixation
43
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What scoring system is used to assess risk of pathological fractures?

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Mirel’s scoring system

44
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Describe Mirel’s scoring system?

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Max score is 12, lesion score of 8 or above then prophylactic action is recommended

Assesses: site, pain, lesion, size

45
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Describe the character of pain due to bone cancer?

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  • Persistent
  • Increasing
  • Non-mechanical/rest
  • Nocturnal
46
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What is the most common soft tissue tumour?

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Lipoma is most common soft tissue tumour

47
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As the size of tumour increases, is it more likely to be sarcoma or liposarcoma?

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Sarcoma

48
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Describe the clinical features of soft tissue tumours?

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  • Painless
  • Be suspicious of malignancy if
    • Deep to deep fascia
    • More than 5cm
    • Fixed, hard or indurated mass
    • Any recurrent mass
49
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When should you be suspicious of malignancy for soft tissue tumours?

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  • Deep to deep fascia
  • More than 5cm
  • Fixed, hard or indurated mass
  • Any recurrent mass
50
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What is the imaging study of choice for soft tissue tumours?

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MRI

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