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Lame - bone pathology Flashcards

1
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What are the two causes of fracture?

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Traumatic - normal bone with excessive force
Pathological - abnormal bone with minimal trauma

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What are the 3 locations of bone fractures?

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Growth plate
Trabecular bone
Cortical bone

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What do fractures that cross/crush the growth plate cause?

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Angular limb deformities

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What type of fractures of the growth plate are more likely to heal easily?

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Fractures that involve only the growth plate and primary bone trabeculae

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What type of fractures of the growth plate are more likely to cause irreversible damage?

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Fractures crossing growth plate through metaphysis/epyphisis
Crush of growth plate

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6
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What is the first step of fracture repair?

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Formation of a haematoma around fracture site

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7
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What does damage to blood vessels from a fracture cause?

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Reduced blood flow
Necrosis of bone fragments
Release of growth factors by macrophages from dying bone

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What is formed from the haematoma in fracture repair?

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Soft tissue callus/procallus

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How is the procallus formed in fracture repair?

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Blood vessels proliferate and undifferentiated mesenchymal cells penetrate, forming loose collagenous tissue

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What is formed from the procallus in fracture repair? How?

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A primary callus - metaplasia of the collagenous tissue into cartilage and woven bone

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What is the secondary callus made of? What is it?

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Replaces the primary callus over time with lamellar bone

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What does the makeup of the primary callus depend on?

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Blood an oxygen supply
The poorer the blood and o2 supply, the greater amount of cartilage in a callus - takes bone longer to heal

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How does the bone return to its original shape over time?

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The portions of callus that dont undergo physical stress are reabsorbed over time

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What can complicate bone repair?

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Insufficient bone supply
Instability
Infection poor nutrition

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What happens when there is instability during bone repair?

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Non union - procallus cant mature into bone so forms fibrous tissue instead
Fibrous tissue not strong enough

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What can be formed by a non-union of bone due to instability?

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Cysts
False joints
Pseudoarthritis

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17
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What is common in open fractures?

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Septic bone inflammation/infection

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Why is it easier for bacteria to invade under the articular epiphyseal cartilage complex?

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Capillaries bend sharply to joining veins so there is turbulent blood flow and a discontinuous endothelial lining - easier for bacteria to invade

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What pathogens cause osteomyelitis?

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Almost always bacterial eg. strep, staph, truperella, E. coli

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What causes inflammation during osteomyelitis?

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Bacteria invade
Neutrophils recruited to the site causing inflammation

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What does inflammation stimulate during osteomyelitis? What does this cause?

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Inflammation stimulates osteoclasts to reabsorb bone and enzymes released - bone loss

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What does the density of bone cause during osteomyelitis?

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Density of bones means exudate cant get out of bone - the increased pressure is very painful, compresses blood vessels
Leads to thrombosis and infarction of intramedullary fat, marrow and bone

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What is deposited at the side of osteomyelitis?

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Fibrous tissue

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24
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What are sequelae?

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Complications of osteomyelitis

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What are some sequelae?

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Inflammation extending to the surrounding soft tissues causing abcesses
Skin fistula
Septic arthritis
Sepsis
Pathologic fractures
Bone sequestra

26
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Where can osteomyelitis spread to?

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Surrounding soft tissues
Adjacent bones
Across joints
Into the bloodstream

27
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What are bone squestra?

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fragments of pale, chalky necrotic bone that are cut off from their blood supply and surrounded by exudate
Have no blood supply so cant resorb

28
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Why are bone sequestra bad?

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They can interrupt/undermine bone healing

29
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What can cause bone sequestra?

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Bone fractures
Osteomyelitis

30
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What mechanism causes bone growth in width?

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Intramembranous bone formation - osteoblasts for new concentric layers of cortical bone

31
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What mechanism causes bone growth in length?

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Endochondral ossification in the metaphyseal growth plates

32
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When are growth plates thickest?

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When growth is most rapid, closes at skeletal maturity

33
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What are the 4 different cartilage zones in the growth plate?

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The reserve/resting zone
Proliferative zone
Hypertrophic zone
Calcifying zone

34
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What is the reserve/resting zone for?

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A source of cells for the proliferating zone

35
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What happens in the proliferative zone?

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Cells multiply
Produce matrix
Become arranged in longitudinal columns

36
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What happens in the hypertrophic zone?

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Chondrocyte volume expands
Chondrocytes modify the matrix to allow capillary invasion
Initiation of matrix mineralisation

37
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What happens in the calcifying zone?

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Blood vessels from metaphysis invade into advancing growth plate
Cartilage mineralisation

38
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What do the invading blood vessels from the metaphysis allow?

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They provide entry for the osteoblasts - critical step

39
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What is the primary spongiosa?

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The junction between cartilage and bone in the metaphysis
A fragile lattice of bone covered spicules of calcified cartilage

40
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What is the secondary spongiosia? What is it made up of?

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More mature trabeculae when growth plate advances - fewer, thicker and made up of mostly bone

41
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What is chondrodysplasia?

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Hereditary disorders of bone growth - primary lesions in growth cartilage of the physeal/epiphyseal cartilage of long bones

42
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What are some disorders of bone growth in chondrodysplasia?

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Growth plates reduced
Disorganised chondrocytes
Cartilage matrix less dense
Trabeculae/spongiosa thickened
Cartilage retained in the secondary spongiosa

43
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What type of dwarfism is caused by chondrodysplasia?

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Disproportionate dwarfism - normal sized head with short legs

44
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Why does disproportionate dwarfism not affect the head?

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Bones of the head are not formed by endochondral ossification

45
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What is not caused by chondrodysplasia?

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Proportionate dwarfism - due to endocrine disease, malnutrition, or artificial breeding selection instead
Just small dogs

46
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What causes angular limb deformities?

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Partial or complete premature closure of growth plates

47
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What is the most common site of angular limb deformities?

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Distal ulnar physis - most stress on this growth plate

48
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What causes angular limb deformities in horses?

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Physeal osteochondrosis

49
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What area is the most commonly affected thing in physeal osteochondrosis?

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Hypertrophic cartilage layer

50
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What is the result of physeal osteochondrosis?

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A well demarcated wedge of retained cartilage in the physis - columns of chondrocytes that dont mineralise
Can cause growth plate fractures?

51
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What is the weakest part of the bone?

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Metaphyseal cortex adjacent to the growth plate

52
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What breed of dogs most commonly get elbow dysplasia?

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Large to giant breed dogs

53
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What are some elbow abnormalities that cause elbow dysplasia?

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Medial coronoid disease
Humeral osteochondrosis
Ununited anconeal process
Elbow instability

54
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What disease does a short radius cause?

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Medial coronoid disease

55
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What disease does a short ulna cause?

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Ununited anconeal process

56
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What can cause aseptic/ischaemic necrosis?

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Trauma causing vascular damage
Neoplasm infiltration
Thromboembolism

57
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What does ischaemic necrosis of the metaphysis of the bone and bone marrow cause?

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Retained growth cartilage - conversion of epiphyseal cartilage to bone is impaired

58
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What does ischaemic necrosis of the epiphysis of the bone cause?

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Premature growth plate closure - death of the proliferating chondrocytes

59
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What can aseptic/ischaemic necrosis lead to?

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Avascular necrosis of the femoral head (legg-calve-perthes)

60
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What breeds are predisposed to avascular necrosis of the femoral head (legg-calve-perthes)?

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Minature poodle
Yorkie

61
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Why does ischaemic necrosis cause avascular necrosis of the femoral head?

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Ischaemia causes dead femoral head bone to be replaced by fibrous tissue - this is not supportive enough so femoral head collapses

62
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What does not happen in avascular necrosis of the femoral head because it is a sterile disease?

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Bone sequestra

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