Histopathology Flashcards
Types of non-traumatic haemorrhage? (2)
- Intraparenchymal Haemorrhage - into the substance of the brain
- Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
Intraparenchymal Haemorrhage
a) Causes (5)
b) most common site
c) Symptoms (4)
a) - HTN (50%)
- atherosclerosis
- arteriovenous malformations
- Amyloid angiopathy
- CADASIL
b) basal ganglia
c) Raised ICP - headache
- focal neurology
- vomiting
- reduced GCS
What is CADASIL?
Associations? (4)
- Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy
Associations - progressive dementia
- mood disorders
- migraine
- recurrent subcortical cerebral infarctions
Arteriovenous Malformation
a) where
b) who
c) presentation
d) high/low pressure?
e) treatment
a) anywhere in the CNS
b) 2nd - 5th decades
c) - haemorrhage
- seizures
- headache
- focal neurological deficits
d) high pressure - MASSIVE bleed
e) surgery - arteriovenous shunting
Cavernous Angioma - WHAT?
a) where
b) who
c) presentation
d) high/low pressure?
e) treatment
“Well-defined malformative lesion composed of closely packed vessels with no parenchyma interposed between vascular spaces”
a) anywhere in the CNS
b) >50 years familial association
c) headache, seizures, focal deficits, haemorrhage
d) low pressure - recurrent bleeds
e) surgery
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
a) Cause
b) who - sex, age
c) most common site
d) Symptoms (3)
e) associations (4)
a) ruptured Berry aneurysm (85%)
b) F > M
c) internal carotid bifurcation
d) 1. thunderclap headache
2. vomiting
3. LOC
e) 1. PKD
2. Ehlers Danlos
3. Aortic coarctation
4. vascular malformations
Types of traumatic brain haemorrhage? (2)
- extra dural
2. sub dural
Extradural Haemorrhage
a) history
b) pathology
c) symptoms (2)
d) intervention
a) traumatic injury to side of head
b) skull fracture -> ruptured middle meningeal artery
c) 1. lucid interval
2. LOC
d) surgical evacuation
Subdural Haemorrhage
a) history
b) pathology
c) associations (2)
d) symptoms
a) previous minor trauma
b) damaged bridging veins -> slow venous bleed -> brain atrophy
c) 1. elderly
2. alcoholism
d) fluctuating level of conciousness
Concussion?
transient LOC and payalysis
recovery in hours or days
Diffuse axonal injury
vegetative state
post-traumatic dementia
Meningism (4)
- stiff neck - Brudzinski’s sign (flexion of knees when chin on chest)
- photophobia
- headache
- positive Kernig’s sign (inability to extend knee when hip is flexed)
Myelitis
- what
- causative agent
- disturbance of the nerve transmission of the spinal cord
- Poliovirus
Encephalitis
a) what
b) causative agents (3)
c) symptoms (5)
a) inflammation of the brain parenchyma
b) -HSV 1
- Rabies
- arboviruses
c) drowsiness
seizures
behavioural changes
headache
fever
Meningitis
inflammatory process in the CSF and meninges
Pathogenesis of neurological deficit in meningitis? (5)
- direct bacterial toxicity
- indirect inflammatory process, cytokine release, oedema
- shock
- seizures
- hypoperfusion
Common causative agents of bacterial meningitis in NEONATES? (3)
- Group B Strep
- E Coli
- Listeria (gram +)
Common causative agents of bacterial meningitis in 1 month - 6 years? (2)
- strep pneumoniae (gram +)
2. haemophilus influenza
Common causative agents of bacterial meningitis in adolescents? (2)
- Neisseria meningitisis (gram -)
2. Strpe pneumonniae (gram +)
Common causative agents of bacterial meningitis in ELDERLY? (2)
- Strep pneumoniae
2. E Coli
Meningococcal septicemia?
a) causative agent?
b) signs (3)
a) N.meningitidis (gram -)
b) - non-blanching, petichial rash (80%)
- maculopapular rash (13%)
- no rash (7%)
Bacterial meningitis LP
a) appearance
b) predominant cell
c) glucose
d) protein
a) turbid/cloudy
b) neutrophils
c) low
d) high
TB meningitis LP
a) appearance
b) predominant cell
c) glucose
d) protein
a) fibrin web
b) lymphocytes
c) low
d) high
Viral meningitis LP
a) appearance
b) predominant cell
c) glucose
d) protein
a) clear
b) lymphocytes
c) normal
d) normal
Tuberculosis meningitis
a) acute or chronic?
b) who?
c) diagnostic test
d) associations (3)
a) chronic
b) immunosuppressed patients
c) Ziehl-neelson stain LP
d) - granulomas
- abscesses
- cerebritis
Common causative agents of viral meningitis in NEONATES? (3)
- Coxsackie’s
- Mumps
- HIV
Common causative agents of viral meningitis in children? (4)
- measles
- mumps
- varicella-zoster
- EBV
Increased risk of spinal infections? (7)
- increased age
- IVDU
- DM
- long-use systemic steroids
- organ transplantation
- malnutrition
- malignancy
Commonest form of adult brain tumours?
metastatic lesions
Common primaries with CNS metastases? (3)
- Breast
- Lung
- Malignant melanoma
Commonest group of primary CNS tumours?
astrocytomas
Neurofibromatosis type II
a) tumour
b) associations (3)
a) meningioma
b) 1. cafe-au-lait macules
2. Lisch nodules (iris)
3. freckling
Ependymoma
a) what
b) causes
a) ventricular tumour
b) hydrocephalus
Pilocytic astrocytoma
a) who
b) where
c) characteristic appearance
a) children
b) cerebellum
c) piloid “hairy” cell
Oligodendroma
a) who
b) appearance (3)
a) adults
b) soft, gelatinous, calcified
Dementia
global impairment of cognitive function and personality without impairment of conciousness. This impairment goes beyond what might be expected for normal ageing. Includes memory impairment and at least one of the following cognitive disturbances - aphasia, agnosia, apraxia, or a disturbance in executive functioning.
Aphasia
language disorder - expressive or repetitive e.g. finding words
Agnosia
loss of ability to recognise an object/people
Apraxia
inability to carry out a learned task
Pathological misfolded proteins associated with AD (2)
- neurofibrillary Tau tangles
2. B-amyloid
MRI changes in AD (4)
- generalised cerebral atrophy
- widened sulci
- narrowed gyri
- enlarged ventricles
Symptomatic medications used in AD (3)
- anti-cholinesterases
- nACR agonists
- glutamate anatgonists
Symptoms associated with Lewy Body dementia (4)
- day-to-day fluctuations
- visual hallucinations
- Parkinsonism
- recurrent falls
Triad of PD
- bradykinesia
- rigidity
- dyskinesia
Pathology of PD
loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra
Protein associated with familial PD?
a-synuclein
Multiple System Atrophy
a) what
b) presentation
c) areas affected (3)
a) degenerative neurological disorder
b) Parkinsonism with poor response to Levodopa
c) 1. Shy Drager - autonomic dysfunction
2. Striatonigral - difficulty with movement
3. olivopontocerebellar - difficulty with balance & coordination
Pick’s Disease
a) what
b) inheritance pattern
c) protein involved
d) symptoms
a) frontotemporal atrophy
b) autosomal dominant
c) Tau
d) behavioral changes, inhibition, apathy
Multiple Sclerosis
a) what
b) who
c) presentation (2)
d) classification (2)
e) pathology
f) proteins (2)
a) autoimmune demyelinating disease
b) F>M, 20-40 years
c) focal neurology 1. optic neuritis
2. poor coordination
d) 1. relapsing & remitting
2. primary progressive
e) plaques with myelin loss
f) 1. Myelin Basic Protein
2. Proteo-lipid Protein
Fracture repair stages (4)
- Pro-callus - organisation of haematoma
- formation of fibrocartilaginous callus
- mineralisation of fibrocartilaginous callus
- remodelling of bone along weight-bearing lines
Factors affecting fracture healing (6)
- fracture type
- neoplasm
- metabolic disorder
- vitamin deficiency
- drugs
- infection
Common site of osteomyelitis in adults (3)
- vertebrae
- jaw (2o to dental abscess)
- toe (2o to DM ulcer)
Common bacteria causing osteomyetlitis?
a) adults (3)
b) children (2)
c) rare (2)
a) 1. Staph aureus
2. Klebsiella
3. E.Coli
b) 1. H influenzae
2. GBS
c) 1. TB
2. syphilis
Normal calcium range
2.2-2.6mmol/L
DEXA T score in Osteopenia
1 - 2.5 SD below normal
DEXA T Score in Osteoporosis
> 2.5 SD below normal
Blood results in Osteoporosis
Norm Ca
Norm Phosphate
Norm ALP
Blood results in Osteomalacia
Low Ca
Low Phosphate
High ALP
Features of Osteomalacia in an ADULT (2)
- Bony pain
2. Proximal muscle weakness
Features of Osteomalacia in a CHILD (6)
- bony pain
- bowing tibia
- rachitic rosary
What is Paget’s disease?
disorder of bone turnover
Features of Paget’s disease (2)
- lysis
2. sclerosis
Risk factors Paget’s (3)
- male
- > 50 years
- caucasian
x-ray findings in osteomalacia?
Looser’s zones
Blood results in Paget’s disease?
Norm Ca
Norm Phosphate
HIGH ALP
X-ray features found in Paget’s disease (6)
- cotton wool skull
- osteoporosis circumstripta
3, picture frame vertebra - ivory vertebra
- lucency of pelvis
- sclerosis of pelvis
Histological features of Paget’s (2)
- huge osteoclasts
2. mosaic pattern of lamellar bone
Blood results in hyperparathyroidism
HIGH Ca
LOW phosphate
Norm ALP
Causes of primary hyperparathyroidism (2)
- parathyroid adenoma
2. chief cell hyperplasia
Causes of secondary hyperparathyroidism (3)
- chronic renal failure
- vit d deficiency
- malabsorption
X-Ray features in hyperparathyroidism (3)
- Brown’s tumours
- salt and pepper skull
- subperiosteal resorption of phalanges
clinical features of hyperparathyroidism (6)
HYPERcalcemia
- Stones - renal
- Bones - pain
- Groans - pancreatitis
- Moans - depression, confusion
- polyuria
- polydipsia
histological feature of hyperparathyroidism
osteitis fibrosa cystica (OFC)
What is renal osteodystrophy?
ANY skeletal changes associated with CKD
Blood results in renal osteodystrophy?
LOW Ca
HIGH Phosphate
Clinical features of renal osteodystrophy? (3)
- metabolic acidosis
- 2 hyperparathyroidism
- alluminium deposition
Factors affecting fracture healing (6)
- fracture type
- neoplasm
- metabolic disorder
- drugs
- vitamin deficiency
- infection
What is pseuodarthritis?
non-healed fracture “false joint”
Symptoms of osteomyelitis? (6)
- pain
- oedema
- malaise
- fever
- rigors
- leukocytosis
X-ray changes in osteomyelitis
- when
- what
- 10 days post onset
- lytic destruction of bone
Rare causes of osteomyeltitis (2)
- TB
2. syphilis
Lyme’s Disease
Inflammatory arthropathy as part of a multisystem illness resulting from a tickbite
What skin rash is associated with Lyme’s disease?
erythema chronicum migrans
Where are Heberden’s nodes?
DIPJ
Where are Bouchard’s nodes?
PIPJ
Most common sites of OA?
- Vertebrae
- hips
- knees