Lecture 7

Question 1

What helps differentitiate benign form aggressive lesions?

Answer 1

• Lesion localization
• Bone destruction
• Zone of transition
• Periosteal reaction/cortical involvement
• New bone production
• Rate of progression

Question 2

What are the categories of Normal - Physiological Bone Density? With each do you see resorptive of proliferative?

Answer 2

• Ageing
  
  • resorptive (destructive)
• Disuse
  
  • resorptive (destructive)
• Athletic Activity
  
  • productive; remodeling

Question 3

What are the type of bone density you see with Abnormal - Pathological Bone Density?

Answer 3

• Decreased - Osteoclastic - Lytic - Destructive
• Increased - Osteoblastic - Sclerotic - Productive
• Mixed pattern

Question 4

Generalized Lesions (bone organ)

Answer 4

• Serum Calcium Levels
• Nutritional Dz/ Metabolic Dz (systemic dz)
• Disuse/Atrophy