MIDTERM Flashcards
Bilateral symmetry is in what % of RA patients?
80%
What is juxta-articular osteopenia due to?
Hyperemia, disuse, and steroid therapy may lead to generalized form
Uniform loss of joint space is associated with what?
Collagenase/chemical destruction RA
Bare area bone destruction is what?
Marginal (rat bite) erosions
What is Pannus?
granulation tissue made up of new capillary growth and fibroblasts that grows into the joint
What can be infrequent, solid, or laminated in RA?
Juxta articular periostitis
What can deformity of RA be due to?
joint destruction, ligament laxity, and stenosing tenosynovitis
What is stenosing tenosynovitis?
Tendon sheaths scar, shrink, and pull
What are the areas of foot and hand affected by RA?
forefoot, MTP joints, PIP joints possible, dorsal dislocation on MTP, fibular dislocation on digits (Lanois deformity)
Primary DJD does not care about ____ but likes ______ ?
MCP, but does like DIP and PIP joints
RA likes ____ and does not involve ____ ?
Likes MCPs, and does not involve DIP joints (besides thumb) and entire wrist
What tendon does RA like?
the extensor carpi ulnaris tendon that runs right along side the ulnar styloid process, common for patients to complain of this before they get soft tissue swelling
Does RA create radial or ulnar deviation?
ulnar
Describe the Boutonniere hand deformity:
“BEFE”
boutonniere, extend DIP, flex PIP, extend MCP
Fingers are STUCK
Describe the “swan neck” hand deformity:
“FEF”
(Flex DIP, extend PIP, flex MCP)
Describe the Mallet finger RA:
DIP joint hyperflexion
What is the sign of RA that combines different hand deformities?
Arthritis Mutilans
- boutonniere
- swan neck
- mallet finger
- zig zag, ulnar deviation
(looks like your hand is in a blender)
What is the zig zag look associated with RA?
Radial carpal deviation with ulnar deviation
What are the exceptions of the hand deformities in RA?
Doesn’t like 2-5th DIP joints, but every other joint in upper extremity is fair game
What is rheumatoid’s primary focus?
Synovial Membrane
What is a deposition of immune complexes involving multiple systems?
Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE)
When does System Lupus Erythematous (SLE) occur?
Female childbearing years
48/100,000
What areas does SLE affect?
Skin and joints very common, kidney is severe
The butterfly rash is prevelant in how many percent of patients, and what disease is it involved with?
SLE and 40%
What are the symptoms of SLE?
90% joint symptoms, pain, swelling, and stiffness
How is the joint ivolvment in SLE?
Mile with little destruction, that’s why a lot of SLE deformities are reversible
What would you radiographically see on SLE?
Osteopenia, tuft resorption, and calcinosis
What are the corticosteroid changes that occur within SLE?
It is called, Corticosteroid Osteopothay, and one would see osteopenia, fractures, and AVN. Bone changes occur because of the steroid use
What are the early symptoms of SLE?
Chronic, episodic pain, stiffness, and soft tissue swelling
What is PSS?
Progressive _S_ystemic _S_clerosis
What is PSS main target?
(Scleroderma) Subcutaneous connective tissue
What is the main age group and gender of PSS?
Females 30-50 y.o.
What systems are affected by PSS?
systemic inflammatory then scarring disorder, skin, lungs, GI tract, heart, kidneys, MSK

90% of scleroderma patients have ______ ?
Raynaud’s

What does “CREST” stand for? What disease is it associated with?
Progressive Systemic Sclerosis
- Calcinosis
- Raynauds
- Esophagus
- Scleroderma
- Teleangiectasia

Describe the Calcinosis portion of CREST in PSS:
Calcinosis Cutis, Circumscripta, and Universalis

Calcinosis Circumscripta pic:

Calcinosis Universalis pic

What are the components associated with the Esophagus in CREST (PSS)?
GERD is common, and there is difficulty swallowing

scleroderma x ray pic
Describe “Teleangiectasia” (CREST) associated with PSS:
Localized areas of redness

What’s the most common area of damage for PSS?
Hands, feet, and face

What happens to the skin during PSS?
It begins to tighten due to scarring

What type of arthritis is associated with PSS?
“Non-erosive arthritis”

Selective destruction of _____ is common in PSS?
1st MCC (base of thumb-trapezium) is distinctive

Tuft Resorption is associated with what?
(PSS) scleroderma is the default condition that causes this

What is the origin of Dermatomyositis/Polymyositis?
It is unknown
What is more common, Dermatomyositis or Polymyositis?
Dermatomyositis

What is dermatomyositis?
Dermatomyositis is an uncommon inflammatory disease marked by muscle weakness and a distinctive skin rash. Likely autoimmune
- Muscle fascial inflammation
Dermatomyositis may occur _____ ?
secondary to neoplasm of lung, prostate, female pelvic organs, breast, and GI

What are the key features of Dermatomyositis?
- Non - suppurative inflammation of skeletal muscle with
- Weakness
- Erythematous skin rash

What does the inflammation of Dermatomyositis lead to?
Eventual scarring of fascia and subsequent calcinosis universalis

Is there tuft resorption with Dermatomyositis?
YES, there is “non destructive small joint inflammation with tuft resorption”
The articular of Dermatomyositis resembles what?
PSS and SLE

What is Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder described as?
MCTD is characterized by overlapping clinical features of PSS, SLE, DM and possibly RA

What is common with Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder?
Arthropathy consisting of arthralgia and arthritis is common in the small joints of the hand, foot, and wrist

What is Jaccoud’s Arthropathy?
1867, Infrequent, deforming, non-erosive hand and foot arthropathy
- Originally subsequent to rheumatic fever (from systemic strept)

What are the deformities of Jaccoud’s Arthropathy?
- Ulnar deviation with flexion
- Boutonniere and swan neck

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What is the history of Sjogren’s Syndrome?
1930, A Swedish Opthalmomologist described a patient with low secretions from lacrimal and parotid glands

What is Sjogren’s syndrome due to?
Lymphocytic accumulation in and obstructing exocrine glands
- Can be primary or secondary

Sjogren’s Syndrome is most common in _____
Females 40-50 year old

What does Sjogren’s Syndrome cause?
- Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eyes), xerostomia (dry mouth), as well as other areas of dryness (nose, skin, and vaginal)

What is the 3rd most common rheumatic autoimmune disorder next to RA and SLE?
Sjorgren’s syndrome
What is the clinical triad of Sjogren’s syndrome?
- Keratoconjunctivitis sicca
- Xerostomaia
- Autoimmune rheumatoid type disorder usually RA but can be SLE or PSS
Describe Juvenile chronic Arthritis:
Juvenile onset adult type RA (Rh factor +)
- Rheumatoid in a child under the age 16

What are the radiologic signs in Juvenile Chronic Arthritis, (Juvenile onset adult type RA) Rh factor + ?
- Bilateral symmetry
- Starts in hands and moves toward axial skeleton
- Longer term = Worse it gets

What are the 3 Juvenile chronic Arthritis subcategories?
- Juvenile Onset Adult type RA (Rh factor + )
- Still’s Disease (Rh factor - )
- Juvenile Onset Rheumatoid variant disease
What are the main characteristics of Still’s Disease?
- Classic systemic form
- Polyarticular form
- Pauci - or monoarticular form - only have it in one joint or 2/3 but WON’T have a widespread form

Still’s disease is Rh +
t/f ?
FALSE (negatron)
Describe Juvenile onset Rheumatoid variant disease:
HLA-27 spondyloarthropathies, and Rheumatoid variants can Uncommonly happen in children

Juvenile onset adult type RA (Rh factor +), Still’s Disease (Rh factor - ), and Juvenile onset Rheumatoid variant disease are all _____ ?
Inflammatory arthritis
What is a bone infarct?
Ischemic death of the cellular elements of the bone and marrow
What does a bone infarct refer to?
Lesions occurring in the metaphysis and diaphysis of bone

Lesions in the epiphysis are called what?
Avascular Necrosis

What are the 3 classifications of Osteonecrosis?
- Bone ends children
- Bone ends adults
- Metaphysis and Diaphysis
In osteonecrosis, bone ends in children are called what?
Epiphyseal ischemic necrosis, femoral head is the most common location
What is adult osteonecrosis?
Chandler’s Disease
What is osteonecrosis in children?
Legg-Calves - Perthes disease, femoral head is the most common location
What is it called when osteonecrosis is found in the metaphysis and diaphysis?
Medullary infarction

What is the normal cause of osteonecrosis in the metaphysis and diaphysis?
It can be idiopathic or secondary to a number of conditions that reduce blood supply to the bone such as an intraluminal abnormality, extrinsic compression or combo of both
Osteonecrosis can be ____ or _____
Idiopathic or Secondary
Osteonecrosis can be idiopathic or secondary to a number of conditions that reduce blood supply to bone, what are they?
- Intraluminal abnormality
- An extrinsic compression
- Combo of both
What does therapeutic radiation do in regards to Osteonecrosis?
Inflames the walls of arteries, narrows the lumen, and causes obstruction
Children usually develop ostenecrosis through ____
TRAUMA
What is the “gold standard” for detection of Osteonecrosis?
MRI
What plays a major role in diagnosing osteonecrosis at a young age?
CT scans, MRI, and bone scans, but if we see it on plain film, this means it is far along in its stages
AVN shows up how on a bone scan?
COLD AREA

What is the most common hematological condition of the skeleton?
AVN
What is AVN predisposed to?
Areas of tenuous blood supply with poor collateral circulation, that’s why the femoral head is the most common area - it gets most of its blood from one blood vessel (lateral peripheral artery)
Under the category of external vessel compression in osteonecrosis, what are the 3 subcategories?
infection, gaucher’s disease, hyperlipidemia
What is Gaucher’s disease?
Lipid storage disease, genetic disorder, accumulation of abnormal fatty material that accumulates in macrophages.
- Cells accumulate in marrow – creates pressure — squishes vessels
What could cause external vessel compression?
Hyperlipidemia
Vessel wall disorders in the etiology of AVN is due to what?
Therapeutic levels of radiation used to treat cancers, it inflames blood vessels and narrows lumen
Under etiologies of AVN, Thrombo-embolic disorders are classified as:
- Alcoholism
- Sickle-cell
- Caisson’s disease
Why would alcoholism cause a thrombo-embolic disorder?
Causes pancreatitis, fatty embolism in the blood, and is one of the MORE COMMON causes of AVN
- typically BILATERAL (long term alcoholics)

How would sickle cell cause a thrombo embolism?
Widespread AVN in femoral heads, humeral heads, etc. You can get an embolism in the kidneys or lungs

What is Caisson’s disease?
- This could cause a nitrogen gas embolism
- “Diver’s disease”
- Rapid decompression in aircraft can cause it
- Tends to involve in HUMERAL HEADS

Describe what corticosteroid use can do:
Prednisone for a period of time to treat rheumatoid type arthritis can cause AVN

_______ with prednisone leads to AVN?
LUPUS
What is the pneumonic for etiology list?
PLASTIC RAGS

Etiology of AVN - Pancreatitis:
Pregnancy, late stage pregnancy - particularly develop AVN in left hip

Patient with Cushing’s syndrome may develop AVN, t/f?
TRUE

What is the “I” in PLASTIC RAGS pneumonic?
_IDIOPATHIC****_
- One of the more common ones, aka “SPONTANEOUS AVN”

What is the “C” in PLASTIC RAGS?
Caisson’s, rapid decompression, nitrogen embolism

What is the “A” in PLASTIC RAGS?
Amyloidosis:
- Metabolic Arthritic disorders (lumpy bumpy)
- Amyloid - abnormal protein material
- Amyloid accumulating in bone marrow causes compression

What is the “G” in PLASTIC RAGS?
Gaucher’s
“Hematological disorder”

What would you see in the epiphyseal findings of osteonecrosis?
- Deep dull joint pain, exacerbated by activity
- Limp waddling gait

What would you notice with the medullary portion of bone in Osteonecrosis?
Medullary infarct typically asymptomatic

What is a _bolded**_ finding of ostenecrosis?
_Osteochondritis Dissecans**_ may cause joint locking

What are common locations of Osteochondritis Dissecans?
Knee and ankle
What are the main points of Osteochondritis Dissecans?
- Specific, focal subchondral AVN
- Does not involve entire epiphyseal area – right up at articular surface
- Usually due to trauma
- Late teens, early adults
- Subchondral piece of cartilage that falls into joint (joint mouse)
- Get secondary DJD from it

What are the 4 stages of Osteonecrosis?
- Avascular
- Revascularization
- Repair - Reossification
- Deformity - Healed

During the Avascular stage of AVN, what would you see?
- Joint effusion – especially at the hip
- Push the femur slightly lateral - increase medial joint space

How does the bone look during the Avascular stage of Osteonecrosis?
Normal, no radiographic changes
What can be a precursor to AVN?
TOH
What would describe, Avascular event has occured but has not started to heal yet?
Avascular stage of Osteonecrosis
What are the 3 stages to the principles of Infarction?
• Stage 1: cessation of intracellular metabolic activity at a
chemical level.
• Stage 2: alteration or interruption of intracellular enzyme
systems
• Stage 3: disruption or dissolution of intracellular nuclear
and cytoplasmic ultrastructure. Irreversible.

Adults rarely get beyond what stage of AVN?
Revascularization (2)
- Deformity happens in this stage, once you deform the bone and the adult secondary DJD happens faster than they can get through being healed

What happens to the bone during the Revascularization stage of AVN
(2)
- New osteoblasts/clasts
- Clasts take away the dead bone
- New vascular vessels/capillaries growing in the area - happens SLOWLY

What are the radiographic findings during Revascularization?
- Look more radiolucent because clasts take away dead bone
- Areas of increased bone density where blasts are building on dead trabeculae
- Intermixed pattern of density in the femoral head

What are the signs you’d see during Revascularization stage of AVN?
- Crescent sign - arc right under bone
- Snow cap - osteosclerosis of femoral head
- Fragmentation - well into second stage
- can become extremely fragmented in CHILDREN

What is the overall quantity/quality of bone during Revascularization stage of AVN?
Net reduction in bone –> subchondral fracture
- Femoral head collapses
- FLATTEN FEMORAL HEAD - disrupt biomechanical integrity of articular cartilage –> DJD

What happens during the Repair - Reossification stage of AVN?
- NEW BONE formation
- More bone seen on the previous x-ray
** Fast is 2 years, and has been known to take 8 years **

Children need to be radiographed every _____ during Repair stage of AVN?
6 months

What is the last stage of AVN?
Deformity - Healed
What are the major findings in the last stage of AVN?
- Normal bone density but shape change
- Cox magna
- Cox Plana
- Reduced femoral neck angle
- Large greater trochanter

What will happen to children during the Deformity stage of AVN?
They will heal but they may get secondary DJD years later
What will the signal look like taking an MRI for AVN?
Loss of signal in the marrow on a T1 weighted scan
- T1 water is dark

Describe the epiphyseal on an MRI in AVN:
MRI are most sensitive, and it is often seen bilateral
- May demonstrate joint effusion
- GOLD STANDARD for early MRI imaging

What are the 4 main signs of AVN?
- SNOW CAP SIGN
- CRESCENT/RIM SIGN
- MUSHROOM Deformity
- HANGING ROPE SIGN

What can you also get from AVN (appears on X ray)?
Geodes - once you fracture articular surface, synovial fluid can leak down

Once the femoral head flattens in AVN it _____
PERMANENTLY Deformed
What would you think if you saw a bilateral case of AVN?
If it’s bilateral it’s probably not idiopathic - most likely alcohol or corticosteroids **
- Sickle cell classically does it bilateral at multiple places

Adults typically don’t make it past what stage of AVN?
REVASCULARIZATION
Healed AVN has what signs?
- Articular deformity
- Early OA
- Acetabular dysplasia, hanging rope
- Trochanteric overgrowth
- Mushroom cap deformity
Altered signal from fat and edema - ring of dark signal around the area of necrosis describes:
MRI findings of Osteonecrosis
What is a group of disorders that share certain features?
Osteochondroses

Osteochondroses has a predilection for what?
Immature skeleton
What does osteochondroses involve?
Involvement of the epiphysis, apophysis, oor epiphyseal equivalent

What are the radiographic pictures dominated by in Osteochondroses?
- Fragmentation
- Collapse
- Sclerosis
- Frequently, reossification with reconstruction of the osseous contour
Osteochondroses is more common in boys or girls?
BOYS
Legg Calves - Perthes discovered in 1910 affects patients from ______
4-8 years old, and is more common in boys (5:1)
- Bilateral in 10-20%

What are the clinical signs of Legg-Calve Perthes Disease?
- Limping
- Pain
- limiting movement (abduction and internal rotation) - or could be salter harris fracture
TRAUMA in 25% of cases

If parents smoke during pregnancy, it increase the risk of this disease in the child?
Legg Calve Perthe
What are the radiographic findings in Legg Calve Perthes disease?
- Soft tissue swelling
- Small epiphysis
- Lateral displacement of ossification center
- Flattening, fissuring, and fracture of the ossification center
- Intraepiphyseal gas

What is Waldenstrong’s Radiographic Staging Initial stage?
- Increased head-socket distance (medial joint space widens)
- Subchondral plate thinning
- Dense epiphysis

What are the 5 stages of Waldenstrom’s Radiographic Staging?
- Initial
- Fragmentation
- Reparative
- Growth
- Definitive
What happens during the Fragmentation stage of Waldenstrom’s?
- Subchondral fracture
- An inhomogenous dense epiphysis
- Porous appearance with metaphyseal cysts

What happens during the Reparative Stage of Waldenstrom’s?
- Normal bone in areas of resorption and removal of sclerotic bone
- epiphysis has more homogenous appearance

What happens during the Growth stage of Waldenstrom’s?
- Re-ossification
- Normal femoral shape approached
- Some degree of flattening does occur - earlier detection –> less deformity
- Greater the deformity - higher chance of DJD

What happens during the Definitive stage during Waldenstrom’s?
Final shape is determined with joint congruency or incongruency

Waldenstrom’s Radiographic staging is under what category?
Legg-Calve Perthes Disease
What happens to the Metaphysis during Legg-Calves Perthes Disease?
- Metaphyseal cysts - frayed looking areas
- Widening and shortening of the femoral neck

Secondary OA is a problem in what?
Legg-Calve Perthe’s Disease
What is the basic problem of Legg-Calve Perthes
basic problem is osteonecrosis with
structural failure of bone, fragility of blood
supply
What is Legg Calve Perthe’s Disease different from?
diff. from hypothyroidism and other avascular necrosis (ie, sickle cell)
How long does healing for Legg Calve Perthe’s Disease last?
18 months

What are the main history components of Freidberg’s Infarction?
- Affects children and adults
- Usually unilateral
- Woman 3 or 4:1
- Ages 13-18
What are the clinical findings of Freiberg’s Infarction?
- Local pain and swelling
- Complain about MTP joint hurting
- Increased density, flattened

What does Freiberg’s Infarction lead to?
DJD - Forefoot MTP joint most common place
- DJD is secondary in Freiberg’s

What is the pathogenesis of Freiberg’s Infarction?
pathogenesis is AVN secondary to
single or repeated trauma

Healed osteonecrosis pic

What is AVN in the scaphoid?
Preiser’s Disease

What are the main points of Preiser’s Disease?
- Scaphoid is most common carpal bone to fracture
- Sclerosis analagous to snowcap appearance in femoral head
- Eventually collapses like femoral head collapses

What usually happens secondary to fracture of scaphoid?
Preiser’s Disease

Radial carpal DJD – Secondary DJD describes what?
Preiser’s Disease
What suggests AVN of tarsal navicular navicular?
Kohler’s Disease

What are the main attributes of Kohler’s disease?
- Boys 4 or 6:1
- 3-6 years old

What are the radiographic findings of Kohler’s Disease?
- Radiographs reveal patchy increased density and fragmentation
- Local Pain, tenderness, and swelling
- Look a little osteosclerotic, maybe radiolucent in areas, flattened
