Ch 7 Bones - General Flashcards
Name the zones:
Resting
Proliferative
Maturation
Hypertrophy
Calcification
Vascular
What is the normal direction of the nutrient foramens, and which bone is the exception?
A clearly defined channel may be seen running at an angle through the cortex, usually from the periosteal surface proximally to the endosteal surface distally (although this direction is reversed in the ulna).
The cortex is made of ________ bone.
compact
The metaphysis / epiphysis is made of ________ bone.
cancellous
What is the term for the secondary centre of ossification (starred)?
Apophysis; additional non-articular cartilaginous protuberances that ossify and form sites of attachment for tendons and ligaments.
In the immature long bone, the physis is essentially vascular / avascular.
Avascular.
Where does the blood supply originate for the epiphysis?
Joint capsule
Where does the blood supply originate for the metaphysis?
nutrient foramen
Which portion of the long bone is hypervascular, making it the preferred location for e.g. hematogenous osteomyelitis?
metaphysis
What is the cutback zone?
Irregular bone appearance in the metaphyses of growing bones due to modelling by active subperiosteal osteoclastic activity
Which condition is bone infarction associated in dogs, and which in cats?
canine osteosarcoma (or other primary bone malignancy)
feline leukemia
Name the types of periosteal reactions
What are the names of these 2 types of lytic changes and which is more aggressive?
Permeative is more aggressive than moth-eaten.
Which type of lysis is affecting the distal 4th metatarsal bone?
Geographic; note the cortical thinning and expansion.
What are 3 typical causes of a solid periosteal reaction?
Fracture callous
chronic osteomyelitis
panosteitis
Which is more aggressive - thin brush (spiculated) or thick brush (palisading) periosteal reaction?
Thin brush; The periosteum is lifted with osteoblastic activity along Sharpey’s fibers. If it is less aggressive and slower growing, the spicules are thicker. The thinner the reaction, the more aggressive the process because there is less time for new bone production.
What is the most likely origin of a sunburst periosteal reaction? what about amorphous bone production?
osteosarcoma
also osteosarcoma
Proximal tibial
osteosarcoma with amorphous bone
formation seen lateral to the proximal fibula. A solid periosteal reaction (Codman’s triangle, arrowed) is present on the lateral cortex of the proximal tibial diaphysis.
Osteosarcoma of the frontal bone with a sunburst periosteal reaction.
Thin brush-like
periosteal reaction of the abaxial
surface of metatarsals II andVinacaseof hypertrophic osteopathy.
Thick brush-like
periosteal reaction on the abaxial
surface of metacarpal V in a dog with hypertrophic osteopathy.
Focal soft tissue swelling and lamellar periosteal reaction cranially on the radius. Radiograph deliberately underexposed.
What are the terms for these 2 types of changes?
What kind of pathology results in endosteal scalloping?
intramedullary neoplasia
