DDX PEDI Flashcards
Retarded Skeletal Maturation
Chronic disease
- cyanotic heart, renal, IBD, Rickets, Malnutrition
Endocrine
- hypothyroid, Steroid, hypogonadism, hypopituitarism
Congenital
- chromosomal (21, 18), skeletall dysplasia of the epiphyses
Premature closure of growth plate
Local hyperemia - JIA, infection, hemophilia
Trauma - Salter harris
Vascular occlusion - sickle cell, infarcts
Radiotherapy
Hemihypertrophy
Vascular
- Parkes Weber Syndrome (fast flow vascular malfmration, port wine stain, limb overgrowth)
- Klippel Trenaunay Syndrome (anomalous veins, port wine, limb overgrowth)
- Capillary malformation
Chronic hyperemia - JIA, hemophilia
Hemihypertrophy - Beckwidth Weiderman
NF1
Macrodysophia lipomatosa - bony and fatty overgrowth of digits
Localized atrophy
Paralysis
Radiation treatment
Skeletal dysplasia (metaphyseal)
Achondroplasia
Metaphyseal chondrodysplasias
- Jansen - ricket let changes
- McKusick - immune defficeincy, hematatological
- Shwachman Diamond - pancreatic insufficiency
- Jeune - short rib, irregular costocondral junction
- Ellis Van Crevald - short ribs, congential heart, polydactyl
Skeletal Dysplasia (epiphyseal)
Multiple epiphyseal dysplasias
- irregular epiphyseal ossification (round, flat)
- mild short stature
Lethal Neonatal Dysplasia
Thanotophoric
- short ribs, severe platyspondylyl, small iliac wings, curved femora and humeri
OI type 2
- numerous fractures
Achondrogenesis
- absent ossification
Dyostosis Multiplex
Mucopolysaccharidoses
- abnormal bone texture
- large skull vault, calvarial thickening
- J shaped sella
- odontoid hypoplasia + AA subluxation
- anterior beak of upper lumbar vertebrae
- inferior tapering of iliac bones, steep acetabulua
- widened idaphyses (oar shaped ribs/clavicle)
- tilting of distal radius and ulnar towards each other
- pointy of proximal ends of metacarpals
Generalized increased bone density (pediatrics)
DYSPLASIA
Osteopetrosis
- bone in bone, rugger jersey
Pyknodysostosis
- short, hypoplastic lateral clavicle, hypoplastic terminal phalanges
Dysosteosclerosis
- undertubulation of long bones
Camurati-Englemann
- diffuse symetrical cortical thickening of diaphyses of long bones
Melorheostosis
- undulating periosteal hyperostosis
- along single limb, along sclerodermal distribution
METABOLIC
Renal osteodystrophy
POISONING
- Lead - Dense metapyseal bands, erlenmeyer flask
- Flurosis - thickened cortex, periosteal reaction, ossification of ligaments
- Hypervitaminosis D - Dense metapyseal bands. Soft tissue calcification
- Chronic hypervitaminosis A - cortical thickening. Not affect mandible
IDIOPATHIC
- Caffeys
Paediatric Tumour that metastasise to bone
Neuroblastoma Leukemia Lymphoma Renal clear cell sarcoma Rhabnomyosarcoma
Moth Eaten Bone (pediatrics)
Neuroblastoma met Leukemia Long bone sarcoma Lymphoma LCH
Periosteal Reaction (child, bilateral, symmetrical)
Normal
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - usually at periarticular
Acute leukemia
- prominent metapyseal bone resorption, calcification at zone of provisional calcification
Rickets Caffey’s Scurvey Prostaglandin therapy Congenital Syphilis
Syndromes featuring multiple fractures
REDUCED BONE DENSITY
OI
Rickets/hypophosphateasia
NORMAL BONE DENSITY
cleidocranial dysplasia
FD
INCREASED BONE DENSITY
Osteopetrosis
Pyknodysostosis
Pseudoarthrosis (pediatrics)
Non-union of fracture
Congenital
NF
OI
Bone within bone (pediatrics)
Normal
Growth arrest
Bisophosphonate Therapy
Osteopetrosis
Irregular or Stippled Epiphysis
Normal
AVN
Congenital hypothyroidism
- can be granular to fragmented
Morquio
- femoral capital epiphyses
Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia
Meyer Dysplasia
- similar to multiple epiphyseal dysplasia but only to femoral head
Chondrodysplasia Punctata
- punctate calcification, resolve over time
- causes - genetic/maternal (connective tissue, vit K def, warfarin)
Solitary Radiolucent Band
Normal Severe disease Metaphyseal fracture Healing Rickets Leukemia/lymphoma/neuroblastoma Congential infection
Alternative Radiolucent/dense Metaphyseal Bands
Growth arrest lines (harris/park)
Bisphosphonate
Rickets
Osteopetrosis
Solitary dense metapyseal band
Normal
Lead poisoning (others - bismuth, arsenic, phosphorus, mercury)
Radiation
Congenital hypothyroidisim
Dense Vertical Metaphyseal Lines
Congenital Rubella
- celery stalk
Osteopathia striata
- with exostosis
Metaphyseal Fraying
Rickets
Hypophosphatasia
Erlenmeyer Flask
DYSPLASIA
- osteopetrosis
- craniotubular disorders (metaphyseal dysplasia, diaphyseal dysplasia)
- others (otoplatodigital, Melnick Needls)
HEMAT
- Thalessemia
DEPOSITS
- Gauchers
- Neimann Pick
POISON
- lead
Focal Rib lesions (pediatrics)
Metastases (neuroblastoma)
Ewing
Benign - osteochondroma/enchondroma
LCH
Healed fracture
FD
Osteomyelitis
Widening of Pubic Symphysis
Trauma
Infection
Congenital
- bladder exstrophy
Cleidocranial dysplasia