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Histo: Bone Pathology Flashcards

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What are the main functions of bone?

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  • Mechanical - support and site for muscle attachment
  • Protective - vital organs and bone marrow
  • Metabolic - store of calcium
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Outline the composition of bone.

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Inorganic (65%) - Calcium hydroxyapatite.
Storehouse of 99% of body calcium, 85% of the phosphorus, 65% of sodium and magnesium

Organic (35%) - bone cells and protein matrix (mainly type 1 collagen)

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In which part of a bone is the growth plate found?

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Metaphysis

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What are the main features of cortical bones?

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  • Long bones
  • 80% of skeleton
  • Appendicular
  • 80-90% calcified
  • Mainly mechanical and protective
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What are the main features of cancellous bones?

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  • Vertebrae and pelvis
  • 20% of skeleton
  • Mainly axial
  • 15-25% calcified
  • Mainly metabolic
  • Large surface

Cancellous bone is metabolically more active than cortical.

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Describe the microanatomy of bone.

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  • Made up of several micro-columns (osteon)
  • Haversian canals are found at the middle of each osteon and contain blood vessels
  • Volkmann canals are canals that connect adjacent Haversian canals
  • Around the Haversian canals are concentric ring of matrix called concentric lamellae and in between these units will be interstitial lamellae
  • Osteocytes are located in lacunae within the lamellae
  • Around the entire bone you will find circumferential lamellae
  • In the middle the bone will be trabecular lamellae
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What are the three main types of bone cell and what are their roles?

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  • Osteoblasts - build bone by laying down osteoid
  • Osteoclasts - multinucleate cells of the macrophage family that resorb bone
  • Osteocytes - osteoblasts-like cells that sit in the lacunae
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How are osteoclasts regulated?

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Osteoblasts produce RANKL and osteoprotegrin
- RANKL - stimulates osteoclast differentation and activity
- Osteoprotegerin - blocks RANK thus inhibiting osteoclast differentiation and activity

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Define metabolic bone disease.

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A group of diseases characterised by disordered bone turnover due to imbalance of various body chemicals.

NOTE: overall effect tends to be osteopaenia

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What are the three main categories of metabolic bone disease?

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  • Non-endocrine (e.g. age-related)
  • Endocrine (e.g. vitamin D, PTH)
  • Disuse osteopaenia
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Where is bone usually sampled from for histological analysis of bone in metabolic bone disease?

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Iliac crest

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Which static parameters are measured in the histological analysis of bone in metabolic bone disease?

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  • Cortical thickness and porosity
  • Trabecular bone volume
  • Thickness, number and separation of trabeculae
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Which technique is used to measure histodynamic parameters when investigating metabolic bone disease?

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Fluorescent tetracycline labelling

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What are the most common causes of osteoporosis?

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90% are due to insufficient calcium intake or post-menopausal oestrogen deficiency

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List some primary and secondary causes of osteoporosis.

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  • Primary - age, post-menopause
  • Secondary - medication (steroids), systemic disease
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List some risk factors for osteoporosis

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Describe the ways in which osteoporosis can present.

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Asymptomatic - usually presents with pathological fractures

  • Wrist - Colles’
  • Hip - NoF and intertrochanteric
  • Pelvic
  • Vertebral (60% asymptomatic) - compression fractures in T11-L1
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Which investigations may be used in a patient with suspected osteoporosis?

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Biochemical

  • Serum calcium, phosphate and ALP (should be NORMAL)
  • Urinary calcium
  • Collagen breakdown products

Imaging

DEXA

  • Osteopenia = T score 1-2.5 SD below normal
  • Osteoporosis = T score >2.5 below normal
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What is the histological appearance in osteoporosis?

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Loss of cancellous bone

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Which four organs are affected by PTH and have a role in calcium homeostasis?

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  • Kidney
  • Bone
  • Proximal small intestine
  • Parathyroid gland
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What is the most common cause of hypocalcaemia?

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Vitamin D deficiency

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Define osteomalacia.

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Defective bone mineralisation

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What two underlying abnormalities can cause osteomalacia?

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  • Deficiency of vitamin D
  • Deficiency of phosphate
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What is the main histological feature of osteomalacia?

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Reduced amount of mineralised bone compared to the amount of osteoid (unmineralised bone)

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List some signs and symptoms of osteomalacia.

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  • Bone pain/tenderness
  • Fracture
  • Proximal weakness
  • Bone deformity
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Name some radiological features of osteomalacia.

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  • Bowing of the legs (rickets)
  • Metaphysial cupping and fraying (rickets)
  • Horizontal pseudofractures (Looser zone)
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Describe how the urine excretion of calcium and phosphate changes in primary hyperparathyroidism.

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Both increase

NOTE: PTH causes a minor increase in reabsorption of calcium from the urine, however, as it causes a large increase in serum calcium concentration (and hence an increase in the calcium concentration of the glomerular filtrate) it causes an overall increase in urine calcium excretion

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What skeletal change is seen in primary hyperparathyroidism?

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Osteitis fibrosa cystica (brown tumours on X-ray)

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What XR features would be seen in hyperparathyroidism?

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  • Brown’s tumours (collection of multinucleate giant cells)
  • Salt and pepper skull
  • Subperiosteal bone resorption in phalanges
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List the main primary and secondary causes of hyperparathyroidism.

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Primary

  • Parathyroid adenoma (90%)
  • Chief cell hyperplasia

Secondary

  • CKD
  • Vitamin D deficiency
  • Malabsorption
31
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What histological feature is typically seen in hyperparathyroidism?

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Brown cell tumour - several multinucleated giant cells (osteoclasts) on a background of fibrous stroma with haemorrhage

32
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Define renal osteodystrophy.

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Term used to describe all the skeletal changes of chronic renal disease:

  • Increased bone resorption (osteitis fibrosa cystica)
  • Osteomalacia
  • Osteosclerosis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Growth retardation
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What is Paget’s disease and what are its three phases?

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Disorder of bone turnover

Three phases:

  1. Osteolytic
  2. Osteolytic-osteosclerotic
  3. Quiescent osteosclerotic

NOTE: the combination of osteoblast and osteoclast activity results in new bone formation

NOTE: 85% are polyostotic

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Describe the histological appearance of Paget’s disease.

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  • Mosaic pattern of randomly organised lamellar bone
  • Huge osteoclasts w > 100 nuclei
35
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Which viruses are associated with Paget’s disease?

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Paramyxoviruses

36
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Describe the presentation of Paget’s disease.

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  • Pain
  • Microfractures
  • Deformity - bowing of tibia
  • Nerve compression - spinal nerves and cord (sensorineural deafness, sciatica)
  • Skull changes - can put medulla at risk

Can also cause haemodynamic changes and high output heart failure

Development of sarcoma in area of involvement 1%

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Which bones are most affected by Paget’s?

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Vertebrae, skull, pelvis

38
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What are the four stages of fracture repair?

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  • Organisation of a haematoma at the site of the fracture (pro-callus)
  • Formation of a fibrocartilaginous callus
  • Mineralisation of the fibrocartilaginous callus
  • Remodelling of the bone along weight-bearing lines
39
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List some factors that influence fracture healing.

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  • Type of fracture
  • Presence of infection
  • Pre-existing systemic conditions (e.g. chronic conditions)
40
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Which sites are most commonly affected by osteomyelitis?

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  • Vertebra
  • Jaw (secondary to dental abscess)
  • Toe (secondary to diabetic skin ulcer)
  • Long bones (usually metaphysis)
41
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Describe the typical presentation of osteomyelitis.

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General - malaise, fever, rigors, leukocytosis

Local - pain, swelling, redness

42
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Which investigations may be used in suspected osteomyelitis?

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  • Blood cultures (positive in 60%)
  • X-ray (will eventually show lytic areas)
43
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What are the routes of infection in osteomyelitis?

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  • Haematogenous
  • Direct extension
  • Traumatic (penetrating injury)
44
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Which organisms can cause osteomyelitis?

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  • Staphylococcus aureas (90%)
  • E. coli
  • Klebsiella
  • Salmonella (SCD)
  • Pseudomonas (IVDU)
  • HiB / GBS (children)

Osteomyelitis is almost always bacterial (rarely fungal)

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When do X-ray changes appear in osteomyelitis and describe them?

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Usually appear about 10 days after onset

  • Mottled rarefaction and lifting of periosteum
  • First week changes - involucrum formation
  • Later changes - irregular lytic destruction
  • Sequestra may form after 3-6 weeks
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What are involucrum and sequestra?

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Involucrum - bone that has formed around an area of dead necrotic bone (analogous to an abscess in soft tissue)

Sequestra - a piece of dead bone that has been separated off (can be a foci of infection)

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What are the potential consequences of TB osteomyelitis of the vertebrae?

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  • May result in psoas abscess or severe skeletal deformity
  • TB osteomyelitis tends to only occur in immunocompromised patients
  • Systemic amyloidosis may occur in some cases

Called Pott’s disease

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Describe the histological appearance of TB osteomyelitis.

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  • Lots of inflammatory cells can be seen in between trabeculae
  • Langhans giant cells (with a horse-shoe nucleus) can be seen
49
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What congenital skeletal lesions are associated with syphilis?

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  • Osteochondritis
  • Osteoperiositis
  • Diaphyseal osteomyelitis
50
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List some acquired skeletal lesions that are associated with syphilis.

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  • Non-gummatous periostitis
  • Gummatous inflammation of joints and bones
  • Neuropathic joints (tabes dorsalis)
  • Neuropathic shaft fractures
51
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What is Lyme disease?

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  • Inflammatory arthropathy that occurs as part of a complex multisystem illness from a tick bite
52
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What is the organism and vector in lyme disease?

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Organism: Borrelia burgdorferi

Vector: Ixodus dammini

53
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What is the skin rash that is classically associated with lyme disease?

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Erythema chronicum migrans

54
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Describe the clinical features of Lyme disease at different stages

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  • Early localised - flu-like symptoms with rash (90%) often on thigh, groin or axilla, 1-50 cm in diameter
  • Early disseminated - affects many organs (musculoskeletal, heart, nervous system)
  • Late, persistent - dominated by arthritis
55
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Outline the diagnosis and treatment of lyme disease.

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  • Diagnosis is often clincial but can use ELISA if there is no erythema migrans
  • Treat with antibiotics (doxycycline)
56
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What is the difference between primary and secondary osteoarthritis?

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Primary - age-related

Secondary - can occur at any age, occurs in a previously damaged or congenitally abnormal joint

57
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What happens to the joint in OA?

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  • Cartilage degeneration
  • Fissuring
  • Abnormal matrix calcification
  • Osteophyte formation

Synovium becomes inflamed with inflammatory cell infiltrate

58
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What are the main sites affected by osteoarthritis?

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  • Vertebrae
  • Hips
  • Knees
  • DIP and PIP of the hand
59
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What are the HLA associations of rheumatoid arthritis?

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HLA DR4 and HLA DR1 (Chr6p21)

60
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What is rheumatoid factor and what proportion of patient’s are rheumatoid factor positive?

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  • IgM antibody against IgG
  • 80% of patients are RF positive
  • Circulating immune complexes may be responsible for extra-articular disease
61
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Which sites tend to be affected by rheumatoid arthritis?

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  • Small joints of the hand and feet (sparing the DIP)
  • Wrists, elbows, ankles and knees

Patients can also get rheumatoid nodules in the skin (25%)

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List some characteristic deformities associated with rheumatoid arthiritis.

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  • Radial deviation of the wrist
  • Ulnar deviation of the fingers
  • Swan neck and Boutonnier deformity
  • Z-shaped thumb
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Describe the histological features of rheumatoid arthritis.

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  • Proliferative synovitis with thickening of synovial membranes, hyperplasia of surface synoviocytes, intense inflammatory cell infiltrate and fibrin deposition and necrosis
  • A pannus can form (exuberant inflamed synovium)
64
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Which type of multinucleate giant cell may be seen in rheumatoid arthritis?

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Grimley-Sokoloff cell (like a Langhans giant cell but does not have horseshoe nuclei)

65
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What type of crystals cause gout?

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Needle-shaped negatively birefringent urate crystals

NOTE: big toe is involved in 90% of cases

NOTE: a tophus is pathognomonic of gout

66
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What may an XR show in gout?

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“rat-bite erosions”

67
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Which crystals cause pseudogout? Describe them

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Calcium crystals

  • Calcium pyrophosphate - mainly knees
  • Calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite) - knees and shouldrs

Crystals are rhomboid-shaped and positively birefringent

68
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What may an XR show in pseudogout?

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“white lines of chondrocalcinosis”

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