Bone Tumors Flashcards
Lucent Epiphyseal Lesions
AIG“the evil” Company
- ABC
- Infection
- Giant cell
- Chondroblastoma
What bones are epiphyseal equivalents?
- Carpals
- Patella
- Greater Trochanter
- Calcaneus
Differential diagnosis for lucent bone tumors in patients that are:
- Less than 30
- Any age
- Over 40
Less than 30 = EG, ABC, NOF, Chondroblastoma, and Solitary Bone Cyst
Any age = Infection
Greater than 40 = mets and myeloma
Classic appearnce of Fibrous Dysplasia
Long lesion in a long bone with a ground glass matrix
No periosteal reaction or pain
What is the difference between McCune Albright and Mazabraud Syndrome?
Both are polyostotic fibrous dysplasia syndromes
McCune Albright
- Girl
- Cafe au lait spots
- Precocious puberty
Mazabraud
- Woman (middle aged)
- Soft tissue myxomas
- Increased risk for osseous malignant transformation
What is Jaffe-Campanacci Syndrome?
***Low yield
- NOFs
- Cafe au lait spots
- Mental retardation
- Hypogonadism
- Cardiac malformations
How do you differentiate an enchondroma from a low grade chondrosarcoma?
Pain: Low grade chondrosarcomas can be painful
Size: Enchondroma (1-2 cm) vs low grade chondrosarcoma (>4-5cm)
Changes: Archs and ring pattern may move around with low grade chondrosarcoma but will not change with an enchondroma
Name two multiple enchondroma syndromes
Ollier and Maffuci
Maffuci has More - Cancer risk and vascular malformations
If you see phleboliths or hemangiomas (lucent centered calcifications) think Maffuci
3 classic Eosinophilic Granuloma (EG) appearances
- Vertebral plana in a kid
- Skull with lucent beveled edge (also in a kid)
- “Floating Tooth” with lytic lesion in alveolar ridge – differential case
Classic DDx for Osseous Sequestrum
- Osteomylitis
- Lymphoma
- Fibrosarcoma
- EG
*Osteoid Osteoma can mimic a sequestrum
Classic DDx for vertebra plana
MELT
- Mets / Myeloma
- EG
- Lymphoma
- Trauma / TB
Facts about Giant Cell Tumor (GTC)
- Physis must be closed
- Non sclerotic border
- Abuts the articular suface
Things to know
- Most common in the knee - abuting articular surface
- Most common at age 20-30
- Association with ABCs (can turn into them)
- They are “quasi-malignant” - 5% can mets to the lung
- Fluid levels on MRI
What is typical apperance of an osteoid osteoma?
Oval lytic lesion (“lucent nidus”) surrounded by dense sclerotic bone
Classic DDx for lucent lesion in the posterior elements
- Osteoblastoma
- ABC
- TB
Typical age and location for a solitatry bone cyst
Less than 30 years old
Proximal humerus > femur > calcaneus
Fallen fragment sign = bone fragment in the dependent portion of a lucent bone lesion
Lytic or sclerotic lesion with history of hyperparathyroidsm think…
Brown tumor
Classic blastic mets are
Prostate, carcinoid, and medulloblastoma
Classic lytic mets are
Renal and Thyroid
Test to differentiate a bone island from a prostate met
Bone scan
Bone Island should be mild or not active
Prostate met should be HOT