Midterm Flashcards
3 types of osteoporosis
Generalized
Regional
Localized
CATBITES for generalized osteoporosis
Congenital: OI
Acquired: no
Trauma: for whole body? Na, haha
Blood: sickle cell anemia and thalassemia
Infection: nope
Tumor: MM (in which sometimes osteoporosis is first finding), lyric mets,
Endocrine: Hyperparathyroidism
Surgery: steroids
Nutritional: vitamin d deficiencies (rickets in kids, osteomalacia in adults)
Generalized osteoporosis causes (12)
Age Post menopause Steroids Heparin MM Mets HyperPTH Scurvy Osteomalacia Rickets Sickle cell anemia OI
Regional osteoporosis causes (2)
Disuse/immobilization, RSD/CRPS
Localized osteoporosis causes (3)
Infection
Inflammatory arthritis
Neoplasm
Definition of osteoporosis
Low bone mass
Microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue
=> enhanced bone fragility => increase in fracture risk
Senile/post menopausal osteoporosis age range
5th-6th decades
Senile/post menopausal osteoporosis gender preference and ratio
F>M 4:1
Does senile/post-menopausal osteoporosis cause pain?
Only when complicated by fracture and deformity
Useful lab findings in senile/post menopausal osteoporosis
None
MC osteoporotic-related fracture states
Spine
Hip
Wrist
Up to 30% of seniors wit hip fracture die within how many months of injury
6 months
Pathology of senile/postmenopausal osteoporosis?
Unknown
Discuss bone quality and amount in senile/post-menopausal osteoporosis
Normal bone quality, but deficient in amount
What factors of senile/post-menopausal osteoporosis result in thinned cortex and trabecular accentuation?
Resportion of cortical and medullary bone
What will you find on an x-ray of an individual with senile/post-menopausal osteoporosis? (10)
Cortical thinning
Altered trabecular patterns
PSEUDOHEMANGIOMATOUS
PENCIL THIN CORTICES and endplates
General radio lucency
PANCAKE PLANA (must ddx from serious pathology: mets and MM)
WEDGED TRAPEZOIDAL SHAPE (ddx: compression fractures)
BICONCAVE end plates (fish/codfish/hourglass at multiple contiguous levels)
ISOLATED END PLATE INFRACTION
SCHMORL’s nodes (MC tx and upper LX)
Additional features of senile/postmenopausal osteoporosis
Colles, numeral neck, ankle malleoli fx’s
Insufficiency fx’s : sacrum (H/I/arc), pubis, medial femoral necks, tib/fib, calcaneus, metatarsals
Proximal femora stress lines. Which one lasts the longest?
#1 principal compressive group lasts the longest #2 principal tensile group #3 secondary compressive group WARDS TRIANGLE
Ddx for 24 year old with decreased bone mass
Thalassemia
OI
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSD)/Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) definition
Regional osteoporosis
Post-trauma bone disorder
ACUTE PAINFUL OSTEOPOROSIS
What is the difference between RSDS and disuse osteoporosis?
PAIN!
Age range for RSDS regional osteoporosis
> 50
History for RSDS regional osteoporosis
History of recent trauma which may have been trivial
RSDS progression
Progressive P, swelling and atrophy DISTAL TO TRAUMA SITE
Marrow fat that goes into a joint space ddx
Fx
Pathological feature of RSDS regional osteoporosis
Neurovascular imbalance, promoting osseous hyperemia
What will you see on an x-ray of RSDS regional osteoporosis
PATCHY, MOTTLED OSTEOPOROSIS
Later: uniform osteoporosis
NO JOINT DISEASE
Three forms of regional osteoporosis
RSDS
Disuse
Transient regional osteoporosis
When would changes appear on an x-ray from disuse & immobilzation osteoporosis
7-10 days, extreme by 2-3 months
4 radiological patterns of disuse atrophy
- Uniform
- Spotty
- Bands (linear transverse subchondral/metaphysical lucent zones)
- Cortical lamination or scalloping: loss of def in outer/inner cortical margins
If function is restored to the involved body part, what will happen in disuse and immobilization osteoporosis?
Normal appearance and complete resititution is anticipated
Transient regional osteoporosis cause
No associated etiology
Transient regional osteoporosis prognosis
Reversible and sudden
Transient regional osteoporosis has two entities:
- Transient osteoporosis of the hip
2. Regional migratory osteoporosis
Transient regional osteoporosis of the hip affects what age group and what gender more?
20-40 years
M>F
Transient osteoporosis of the hip is associated with what feminine condition and what side?
Haha pregnancy and left hip
Where would you see marked osteoporosis in transient osteoporosis of the hip?
Femoral head, less severe in femoral neck and acetabulum
Regional migratory osteoporosis affects what gender most?
M>F
Regional migratory osteoporosis prefers UE or LE?
LE (foot, ankle)
What describes regional migratory osteoporosis?
Localized, regressing, migratory osteoporosis
3 causes of localized osteoporosis
Inflammatory arthritis (RA)
Infection
Neoplasm
Define osteomalacia
Lack of OSTEOID MINERALIZATION leading to GENERALIZED BONE SOFTENING
Clinical features of osteomalacia (3)
Muscle weakness
Bone pain
Deformities
What 3 measures will be elevated in osteomalacia?
Parathormone, alkaline phosphatase, urinary hydroxyproline
Normal to decreased __ and __ will be seen in osteomalacia
Calcium and phosphorous
What condition would have osteoid seams?
Osteomalacia
What is an osteoid seam, and what condition would you see it in?
Increased amount of uncalcifed osteoid tissue seen in osteomalacia
What condition would have pseudofractures? What are pseudo fractureS?
Osteomalacia
Probably insufficiency fractures healing with uncalcifed osteoid (osteoid seam)
What are 4 alternate terms used for pseudofractures? What condition are they associated with?
Osteomalacia Increment fractures Milkman' syndrome Looser' lines Umbau zonen
Radiological features associated with osteomalacia (4)
Decreased bone density
Coarse trabecular pattern
Loss of cortical definition
Pseudofractures (ddx pagers, fibrous dysplasia, rickets)
What is rickets?
Deficiency in vitamin D
What are the 3 forms of rickets?
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Renal osteodystrophy (renal rickets).
- Renal tubular defect
Renal osteodystrophy is chronic or acute renal disease
Chronic
Renal tubular defect definition and what condition is it associated with?
Failure to resort phosphate in urine interferes with osseous mineralization due to lake of phosphate
Associated with rickets
Age group for rickets
6months to 1 year
Clinical features of rickets (7)
Growth plate swelling Irritability Deformities Tetany Delayed maturity Weakness Elevated alkaline phsophatase levels
Pathological feature of rickets
Growth plate cartilage hypertrophied
Failure to mineralized or degenerate
Radiologic features of rickets (6)
Generalized osteopenia Coarse trabecular changes Widened growth plates Architects (costal) rosary Absent zone of provisional calcification Frayed "paintbrush" and cupped metaphyses
What are the two defining features of rickets?
Widened growth plate and paint brush appearance
Scurvy is aka
Barlow disease
Scurvy is a deficiency fo what vitamin
C
How long does it take for scurvy to develop?
4-10 months
In what condition will you find capillary fragility?
Scurvy
What age will yo find scurvy?
4-14 months?
Where would you find spontaneous hemorrhages?
Scurvy
In what condition would you find costal rosary (scorbutic rosary)?q
Scurvy
What radiological features would you find in scurvy?
Abnormal growing ends of long bonds Osteoporosis DENSE ZONE OF PROVISIONAL CALCIFICATION (white line of franker) RING EPIPHYSIS (wimberger's sign) Pelken's spurs Scorbutic zone (trummerfeld zone) Subperiosteal hemorrhages
Insuffiency fractures and bowing is associated with what condition?
Rickets
Subperiosteal hemorrhages are due to what and promote what in what condition
Due to deficiency of intracellular cement which in turn promotes vascular fragility
Names associated with scurvy
- Barlow’ disease
- white line of frankel (dense zone of provisional calcification)
- wimberger’s sign (ring epiphysis)
- pelken’s spurs
- trummerfeld zone (scorbutic zone)
Describe pathogenesis behind hyperparathyroidism
Increased PTH activity => osteoclasts effect on skeleton
Three forms of hyperparathyroidism
Primary (Parathyroid tumor)
Secondary (renal disease)
Tertiary (renal dialysis)
Gender greatest affected by hyperparathyroidism
F>M, 3:1
Age group of hyperparathyroidism
30-50 years
Clinical features of hyperparathyroidism (5)
Weakness Lethargy Poly dips is Polyuria Elevated ALPase and parathormone levels
What levels are elevated in hyperparathyroidism? (2)
Elevated alkaline phosphatase and parathormone levels
Soft tissue calcification ddx list
Hyperparathyroidism
Scleroderma
SLE
tumor of ribs ddx
Malignant: Mets
Benign: fibrous displasia
If also Mandible: browns tumor
Pathological features of hyperpTH
Osteoclasts and osteolytic resorption with fibrous tissue displacement (osteitis fibrosis cystica)
Define osteitis fibrosis cystica and what condition it is associated with
Hyper PTH
Osteoclastic and osteolytic resorption with fibrous tissue replacement
Define Brown’s tumors and are pathological feature of which condition?
HyperPTH
D/t hemorrhagic giant cell proliferation
Hallmark pathological feature of HyperPTH
Subperiosteal bone resorption, specifically of radial side of 2-3rd phalanges
5 radiological features associated with hyperpTH
Osteopenia Accentuated trabecular patterns Subperiosteal resorption Loss of cortical definition BROWN TUMORS
Target sites of hyperPTH
Hand!
Skull!
Spine!
What is seen in the hand of an individual with HyperPTH
Subperiosteal resorption of the radial margins of proximal and middle phalanges of 2nd and 3rd digits with acroosteolysis
What is seen in the skull of an individual with hyperPTH
Salt and pepper, resorption of lamina dura (teeth!)
What is seen in the spine of an individual with hyperPTH
Osteopenia, trabecular accentuation, end plate concavities
RUGGER JERSEY SPINE
WIDENED SI JINOTS
Ddx for sclerotic pubic rami in x-ray (3)
- Osteitis pubis
- Infection
- HPT
Ddx for widened SI joint
- AS
- Reiters
- Psoriatic
Radiological features of HPT (ST changeS) (4)
Nephorcalcinosis
Renal calculus
Chondrocalcinosis
Calcification in various periarticular tissues and viseral organs
Causes of acromegaly? (2)
Pituitary eosinophilia ademona = excess growth hormone AFTER growth plates have fused
Excessive growth hormone production before growth centers close = GIGANTISM!
5 clinical features of acromegaly
Prominent forehead
Thickened tongue
Broad and large hands
Predisposition to degenerative arthritis (esp. spine and weight bearing joints)predisposition to CTS probs
Pathological features of acromegaly (3)
Activation of periosteum appositional new bone, articular cartilage proliferation and subcutaneous hyperplasia
Radiologic features of the foot specifically in acromegaly?
Heel pad >20mm (1 inch)
Why would sella turcica be enlarged? And this is seen most predominantly in what condition?
D/t pituitary neoplasm
Acromegaly
What is prognathism? And what condition is it associated with?
Widened mandibular angle
Acromegaly
Radiological features in the skull in someone with acromegaly (4)
Sella turcica enlargement, sinus overgrowth, malocclusion, prognathism
Radiological features of the hand in someone with acromegaly (4)
Widened shafts, bony protuberances, enlarged distal tufts (spade-like), widened joint spaces
Spade-like tufts are associated with what condition?
Acromegaly
Why will you see widened joint spaces in acromegaly?
Cartilage overgrowth! Duh haha
What is going to happen in an individuals joints who has acromegaly?
Wear out at earlier age in odd spots = DJD
Compression fractures at every level. What MUST be on your ddx? What else?
Corticosteroid use.
Cushing’s disease
Excessive glucocorticoid steroids form adrenal cortex = what condition
Cushing’s
A neoplasm in which area can produce similar clinical features as cushings?
Anterior pituitary
Where does a patient store fat in cushings? What is it called?
Upper thorax (buffalo hump) and face (moon face)
Clinical features of cushings (3)
Accelerated hair growth and HTN
Moon face and buffalo hump
Purple stria on abdomen and axillae
Air in the bone vs. air in the disc. Name it!
Bone: cushings! Collapsed vertebra d/t osteonecrosis!
Disc: vacuum phenomenon found in DJD
Osteoporosis of cushing’s disease radiological findings (2)
Thinned vortices, density diminished
BICONCAVE END PLATE CONFIGURATIONS
Osteonecrosis of cushing’s/steroid induced osteonecrosis radiological finding
Vertebral body collapse - after steroid meds - d/t ischemic necrosis (called intervertebral vacuum cleft sign)
Where is osteonecrosis d.t cushings/steroid-induced osteonecrosis found? (3)
Femoral and numeral heads
Distal femora
Talus
Skeletal dysplasias (4) + sclerosis bone dysplasias (3)
Achondroplasia OI Marfan's Cleidocranial dysplasia \+ Osteopetrosis Osteopoikilosis Melorheostosis
Achondroplasia aka (3)
Chondrodystrophia fetalis
Chondrodystrophic dwarfism
Micromelia
What is achondroplasia?
Hereditary, autosomal dominant disturbance in epiphyseal-chondroblastic growth and maturation
What causes achondroplasia?
Unknown
Parents are normal in 90% of cases
Two achondroplastics = may manifest severe form which is usually lethal within the first weeks of life
Average height of achondroplasia?
50 inches!
What is rhizomelia and what condition is it associated with?
Long bones shorted especially proximal ones
Achondroplasia
Is UE or LE more affected in achondroplasia?
UE
Explain the head of an individual with achondroplasia
Large cranium, prominent forehead and depressed nasal bridge
What is the spinal column like in an individual with achondroplasia?
Length = normal, thus dwarfism is due to limb shortening yo!
Thoracolumbar kyphosis develops in which skeletal dysplasia condition?
Achondroplasia
Rolling gait is caused by the posterior tilt of the pelvis and posterior angulation of the hip joints is charactersistc of which skeletal dysplasia?
Achondroplasia
MC cause of ivory vertebra:
Osteoblastic mets
Hodgkin lympha
Posterior body scalloping is noted in ___ anterior body scalloping noted in ___
Achondroplasia; hodgkins lymphoma
Trident hand is associated with what skeletal dysplasia
Achondroplasia
What is trident hand
Separation of 3rd and 4th digits and inability to approximate them in extension
May die at birth due to a difficult delivery, small foramen magnum or constricted thorax are clinical features of which condition
Achondroplasia
Small foremen magnum is seen in which condition
Achondroplasia
Hydrocephalus and small foramen magnum can lead to cord compression are neurological complications of which skeletal displasia
Achondroplasia
Most significant complication in adulthood of achondroplasia
Congenital spinal stenosis = often leading to paraplegia!!!
Four clinical syndromes caused by spinal stenosis… which is most commonly seen in which condition?
ACHONDROPLASIA
- NR compression d/t disc herniation/osteophyte formation
- Transverse myelopathy over several years d/t severe kyphosis
- Acute transverse myelopathy with sudden paraplegia following trauma
- Intermittent claudication of cauda equine d/t ischemia
Define brachycephaly
Large cranium though short in ant-post dimension seen in achondroplasia
Prominent frontal bones and small nasal bones
Achondroplasia
Metaphysical cupping
Splayed bone ends seen in achondroplasia
Champagne glass pelvis
Achondroplasia
Tell me about the discs of individuals with achondroplasia
Increased, height of discs = vertebral bodies
Interpedicular spaces of achondroplasia
Decreased in lumbar region = narrowing of spinal canal
Bullet nose vertebra
Achondroplasia
Angular kyphosis develops at TL = resulting in this
Pedicles of achondroplasia
Short and thick
Spatulatled or paddled shaped pelvis is d/t
Tilting of the pelvis
Achondroplasia
Key features of achondroplasia (10)
Champagne glass pelvis Stenosis foramen magnum Basilar impression is frequent Brachycephaly Small interpedicular spaces in lumbar spine Bullet-nosed vertebra Spatulated or paddle shaped pelvis Trident hand Rhizomelia Big booty big booty big booty on x-ray
Ddx of achondroplasia (3)
Mucopolysaccharidoses, trisomy, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia
Most serious involvement in osteogenesis imperfecta
Skeleton but can see changes in ligaments, skin, sclera, inner ear and dentition
Synonyms of OI (4)
Osteopsathyrosis idiopathica, jollities Ossian, fragilitas Ossian, lobstein’s disease
3 major clinical criteria for diagnosis of OI
Only 2 need to be present:
- Osteoporosis with abnormal fragility of skeleton
- Blue sclera
- Abnormal dentition (dentinogenesis imperfecta)