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Well-Defined Lytic Lesions

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  • Mets (RCC, Thyroid)
  • Multiple myeloma/Plasmacytoma
  • GCT
  • Enchondroma (hands/feet)
  • Clear cell chondrosarcoma
  • Desmoid
  • FD
  • Brown tumor
  • Hemophiliac pseudotumor
  • Subacute OM (Brodie’s abscess)
  • Osteoblastoma
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Only in Pts < 30yo

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  • ABC
  • SBC
  • Non-ossifying fibroma
  • Chondroblastoma
  • Chondromyxoid fibroma
  • EG
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Automatics Based on Age

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< 30yo

 - EG
 - Infection

> 40yo

 - Mets
 - Multiple myeloma
 - Infection
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Multiple Lesions

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  • FD
  • EG
  • Enchondromas
  • Mets/Myeloma
  • Brown tumors
  • Infection
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Lesions w/o Pain

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  • FD
  • Enchondroma
  • NOF
  • UBC
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Diffuse Periostitis (Adults)

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  • Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
  • Venous stasis
  • Hypervitaminosis A
  • Thyroid acropachy
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Lesions w/ Fluid-Fluid Levels

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  • ABC
  • GCT
  • Chondroblastoma
  • Osteoblastoma
  • Telangiectatic osteosarcoma
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Madelung Deformity

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  • Trauma (Salter-Harris)
  • Infection
  • Turner’s syndrome
  • Mucopolysaccharidoses (Morquio)
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Enlarged Bones/Focal Gigantism

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  • Paget’s
  • NF1
  • Acromegaly
  • Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber
  • Macrodystrophia lipomatosis
  • Fibrolipomatous hamartoma
  • Ollier’s/Maffucci’s
  • JIA/Hemophilia (epiphyseal overgrowth)
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Acro-Osteolysis

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Distal Predominant

  • Scleroderma
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • HyperPTH
  • Thermal injury
  • Pyknodysostosis

Band-Like

  • HyperPTH
  • PVC exposure
  • Hadju-Cheney syndrome
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Lucent Metaphyseal Bands

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  • Leukemia/Lymphoma
  • Neonatal syphilis (Wimberger’s sign)
  • Neuroblastoma mets
  • Early stage rickets/scurvy
  • Growth arrest lines
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Dense Metaphyseal Bands

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  • Growth arrest/stress lines
  • Chronic anemia (SCD, Thalassemia)
  • Lead poisoning
  • Chemotherapy
  • Osteopathia striata
  • Osteopetrosis
  • Healing stages rickets/scurvy
  • Hypothyroidism
  • HypoPTH
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Bone Bowing

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  • Paget’s
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Osteomalacia/Rickets
  • FD
  • Growth plate injury (Salter-Harris)
  • NF1
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Posterior Element Lesions

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  • TB
  • OO/Osteoblastoma
  • ABC
  • Mets
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Vertebral Body Lesions

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  • Hemangioma
  • Mets/Myeloma
  • OO/Osteoblastoma
  • GCT
  • EG
  • Chordoma
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Ivory Vertebrae

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  • Lymphoma
  • Mets
  • Paget’s
  • Chronic OM
  • Osteosarcoma
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Bullet-Shaped Vertebrae

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  • Achondroplasia
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Down syndrome
  • Mucopolysaccharidoses
    • Morquio’s –> middle
    • Hurler’s —> inferior
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Iliac Wing Lesions

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  • FD
  • SBC
  • Brown tumor
  • GCT
  • Chondrosarcoma
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Mets/Myeloma
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Soft Tissue Calcification

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  • Metastatic
    • HyperPTH
    • Renal osteodystrophy
  • Dystrophic
    • Trauma
  • Calcinosis
    • Scleroderma
    • Dermatomyositis
    • Tumoral calcinosis
    • SLE
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Periarticular Soft Tissue Calcification

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  • Hydroxyapatite deposition
  • Gout
  • Scleroderma/SLE/Dermatomyositis
  • Hypercalcemia
    • HyperPTH
    • Renal failure
    • Hypervitaminosis D
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Rib Lesions

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  • FD
  • ABC
  • Mets/Myeloma
  • EG
  • Enchondroma
  • Chondrosarcoma
  • Ewing’s sarcoma (Askin)
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Expansile Lytic Lesions

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  • Mets (thyroid, RCC)
  • Multiple myeloma (ribs)
  • ABC
  • GCT
  • Brown tumor
  • Enchondroma
  • NOF
  • Fibrous dysplasia
  • SBC
  • Hemophiliac pseudotumor
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Epiphyseal Lytic Lesion (< 30yo)

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  • GCT
  • ABC
  • Chondroblastoma
  • EG
  • Infection (Brodie’s abscess)
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Epiphyseal Lytic Lesion (> 40yo)

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  • GCT
  • Infection
  • Mets/Myeloma
  • Geode
  • Clear cell chondrosarcoma
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Lesions w/ Sequestrum

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  • OM
  • EG
  • Fibrosarcoma
  • Lymphoma
  • Mets
  • Osteoid osteoma (pseudosequestrum)
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Gracile Bones (Overtubulation)

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1) NF1
2) JRA
3) OI
4) Immobilization or Paralysis
- Congenital CNS lesions
- Birth palsies
5) Muscular dystrophy

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Epiphyseal Equivalents

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  • Greater trochanter
  • Patella
  • Carpal bones
  • Calcaneus
  • Subarticular Flat bones
    • Acetabulum
    • Glenoid of scapula
    • Around SI jts
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Ribbon Ribs

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"HORNS"
H - HyperPTH
O- OI
R - RA
N - NF1
S - Scleroderma
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Mets

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1) Lytic
- Lung
- Kidney
- Breast
- Thyroid
- GI
- Neuroblastoma
2) Blastic
- Prostate
- Carcinoid
- Medulloblastoma
3) Mixed
- Lung
- Breast
- GI
4) Lysis w/ Blowout
- Thyroid
- RCC

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Dactylitis

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1) SCD
2) Psoriatic arthritis
3) TB

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Avascular Necrosis

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“ASEPTIC”

  • Anemia from SCD
  • Steroid use, SLE, Scleroderma
  • Ethanol
  • Pancreatitis
  • Trauma
  • Infection/Idiopathic (Blount, Keinbock, Panner’s, L-C-P)
  • Caisson’s dz
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Finger Masses

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1) Bone Centered (Non-Aggressive)
- Enchondroma
- Epidermoid inclusion cyst
- BPOP
- Juxtacortical chondroma
- Osteochondroma
- Subungual exostosis
2) Bone Centered (Aggressive)
- Mets
- Myeloma
- Infection
3) Soft Tissue Centered
- Giant cell tumor of tendon sheath
- Lipoma
- Ganglion cyst
- Glomus tumor
- PNST

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Non-Specific Soft Tissue Mass (XR)

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1) Lipoma
2) PNST
3) Hematoma
4) Epidermal lesion
5) Sarcoma

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Erosion of Distal Clavicle

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1) Bilateral
- RA
- HyperPTH
- Cleidocranial dysplasia
- Gorlin disease/Vanishing bone disease
2) Unilateral
- Septic arthritis
- Post-traumatic osteolysis
- Mets/Myeloma

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High Riding Humerus

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1) Rotator cuff tear
2) RA
3) CPPD

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Erlenmeyer Flask Deformity

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1) Gaucher’s dz
2) Osteopetrosis
3) Hemoglobinopathies (Thalassemia, SCD)
4) FD
5) Multiple hereditary exostoses
6) Enchondromatosis

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Diffuse Osteosclerosis

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1) Mets - breast, prostate
2) Renal osteodystrophy
3) Osteopetrosis
4) Mastocytosis
5) Myelofibrosis
6) Pyknodysostosis
7) SCA
8) Paget’s
9) Lymphoma
10) Fluorosis

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Sacral Tumors

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1) Chordoma
2) Chondrosarcoma
3) GCT
4) Mets/Myeloma
5) Tarlov cyst
6) Sacrococcygeal teratoma (paeds)

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Epiphyseal Overgrowth

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1) Hemophilia
2) JIA
3) Paralysis
4) TB arthritis

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Coarse Trabeculation

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1) Osteopenia
2) Hemangioma
3) Paget’s
4) Thalassemia
5) Plasmacytoma (mini-brain appearance)

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Diffuse Osteopenia

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1) Osteoporosis
2) Multiple myeloma
3) Leukemia
4) Thalassemia
5) Gaucher’s

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Regional Osteoporosis

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1) Disuse
2) AVN
3) Periarticular from Arthritis
- RA, septic arthritis, SLE, RSD
4) AVN
5) Transient osteoporosis of the hip
6) Regional migratory osteoporosis
7) Ill-defined lytic lesions

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Cortical Striation/Tunneling (Rapid Bone Turnover)

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1) HyperPTH
2) Renal Osteodystrophy
3) Osteomalacia
4) Disuse
5) Paget’s

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Multifocal Sclerotic Lesions

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1) Blastic mets
2) Osteopoikilosis
3) TS
4) Fluorosis
5) Mastocytosis
6) Paget’s

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Ill-Defined Lytic Lesions

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1) Mets/Myeloma
2) Lymphoma/Leukemia
3) Acute OM
4) EG
5) Hemangioma
6) Ewing’s
7) Telangiectatic osteosarcoma
8) Fibrosarcoma

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Multiple Lytic Lesions

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1) Mets/Myeloma
2) OM
3) FD
4) Brown tumors
5) EG
6) Lymphoma/Leukemia
7) Enchondromas

47
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Intertrochanteric Tumor

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1) Lipoma
2) Liposclerosing myxofibrous tumor
3) FD
4) SBC

48
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Well-Defined Sclerotic Lesion

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1) Mets
2) Bone island
3) Osteoid osteoma
4) Osteoblastoma
5) Mature bone infarct
6) Enchondroma
7) FD
8) Healing stress fracture
9) Involuted NOF

49
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Ill-Defined Sclerotic Lesion

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1) Met
2) Immature bone infarct
3) Osteosarcoma
4) Chondrosarcoma
5) Stress #
6) Paget’s
7) Chronic OM

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Focal Periostitis/Cortical Hyperostosis

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1) Stress #
2) OM
3) Melorrheostosis
4) Myositis ossificans
5) Tumor
- Osteoma
- Osteoid osteoma
- Osteoblastoma
- Chondroblastoma
- Parosteal osteosarcoma

51
Q

Diffuse Periostitis (Kids)

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1) Physiologic
2) Caffey’s dz
3) NAI
4) Prostaglandin Rx
5) Malignancy
6) Congenital syphilis

52
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Heterotopic Ossification

A

1) Trauma
2) Neurologic injury (TBI, Stroke, Spinal cord injury)
3) Burns
4) Myositis ossificans progressiva

53
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Extensive Callous Formation

A

1) Steroids
- Exogenous
- Cushing’s dz
2) OI
3) Infection
4) Trauma
5) Paralysis/Neuromuscular disorder

54
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Cortically-Based Lesions

A

1) Cortical desmoid
2) Osteoid osteoma
3) NOF
4) Parosteal osteosarcoma
5) Cortical FD
6) Adamantinoma
7) Ossifying fibroma

55
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Short Metacarpal/Metatarsal

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1) Idiopathic
2) JIA
3) Turner’s
4) Muccopolysacharidoses
5) Hypoparathyroidism
6) Trauma
7) SCD

56
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Diaphyseal Bone Lesion

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“FEMALE”

  • FD
  • EG
  • Met
  • Adamantinoma/Ossifying fibroma
  • Lymphoma/Leukemia
  • Ewing’s
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Coxa Magna/Coxa Breva/Coxa Plana

A

1) Trauma
2) Prior Legg-Calve-Perthes
3) DDH

58
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Subchondral Cysts

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1) Degenerative jt dz
2) CPPD
3) RA
4) Ischemia/AVN

59
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Acetabular Protrusion

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1) RA
2) JIA
3) Trauma
4) Infection
5) Osteomalacia
6) Paget’s
7) AS

60
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Permeative Lesion

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1) OM
2) Small round blue cell tumors
- Ewing’s
- Lymphoma/Leukemia
- Neuroblastoma
- Multiple myeloma
3) EG

61
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Premature Closure of Physis

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1) Truma
2) JIA
3) Infection
4) Hemophilia
5) Accelerated Skeletal Maturation
- McCune-Albright
- Hyperthyroidism

62
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Well-Formed Bone Spurs

A

1) Degenerative enthesopathy
2) DISH
3) Acromegaly

63
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Poorly-Defined Bone Spurs

A

1) Psoriatic arthritis
3) Reactive arthritis
4) Avulsion injury
5) AS

64
Q

Tenosynovitis

A

1) Post-traumatic
2) Overuse
3) CTD (RA, SLE)
4) Infection

65
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Monoarticular Arthritis

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1) Trauma
2) Septic arthritis
3) PVNS
4) Synovial chondromatosis
5) Crystal Arthritides
- Gout
- CPPD
- Calcium hydroxyapatite deposition dz

66
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Purely Erosive Arthritis

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1) RA
2) Septic (acute)
3) TB (indolent)

67
Q

Erosive & Proliferative Arthritis

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1) Psoriatic
2) Reactive
3) AS
4) Erosive OA

68
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Arthritis w/ Preserved Jt Space

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1) Gout
2) TB (indolent course)
3) Juvenile chronic arthritis
4) Hemophilia
5) Amyloidosis
6) Synovial chondromatosis
7) SLE, Jaccoud’s
8) Reactive Synovitis - Infection, IBD, Neoplasms

69
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Accelerated OA

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1) Trauma
2) Infection
3) CPPD
4) Hemochromatosis
5) Acromegaly
6) Articular dysplasia

70
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Calcified Intra-Articular Loose Body

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1) Synovial osteochondromatosis
2) Detached osteophyte
3) Acute osteochondral #
4) Unstable OCD fragment

71
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Non-Calcified Intra-Articular Loose Body

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1) Synovial chondromatosis
2) Rice body (RA, TB)
3) Lipoma arborescens

72
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DDx Joint Effusion

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1) Trauma
2) Infection
3) Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
4) RA/JIA
5) Tarsal/Carpal coalition
6) Effusion Mimics
- Amyloid
- PVNS
- Hemophilia

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Olecranon Bursitis

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1) Overuse, Dialysis
2) Trauma
3) Infection
4) RA
5) Gout
6) CPPD

74
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Ulnar Deviation of MCPs

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1) RA
2) SLE
3) Jaccoud’s arthropathy

75
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Radial Deviation of MCPs

A

JIA

76
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Hooked Osteophytes

A

1) CPPD (2-3 MCPs)

2) Hemochromatosis (diffuse)

77
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Osteochondral Lesion

A

1) Trauma
2) Subchondral insufficiency #
3) AVN collapse
4) OCD
5) OA

78
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Sacroiliitis

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1) AS
2) HyperPTH
3) Septic arthritis
4) Reactive arthritis
5) Psoriatic arthritis
6) Enteropathic arthropathy

79
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Arthropathy w/ Soft Tissue Mass

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1) Gout
2) Amyloidosis (no blooming, low T1/T2)
3) PVNS (blooming, low T1/T2)
4) Hemophilia (bloom, low T1/T2, wide physes)

80
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Amyloidosis vs. PVNS

A

Osteopenia in amyloidosis

81
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PVNS vs. Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath

A

GCTTS located in soft tissue near jt

82
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Periarticular Soft Tissue Calcification

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1) Hydroxyapatite deposition
2) Gout
3) Scleroderma
4) Tumoral Calcinosis
- HyperPTH
- Renal failure
- Hypervitaminosis D
- Sarcoidosis

83
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Soft Tissue Calcification

A

1) Metastatic
- HyperPTH
- Renal osteodystrophy
2) Scleroderma
3) Dermatomyositis/Polymyositis
4) SLE
5) Dystrophic (trauma)

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Chondrocalcinosis

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1) CPPD
2) OA
3) Gout
4) HyperPTH
5) Hemochromatosis

85
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Spondylolisthesis

A

1) Spondylolysis
2) Facet degeneration
3) Degenerative disc dz
4) trauma
5) Ligamentous Laxity
- Marfan’s
- Ehlers-Danlos

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Atlantoaxial Subluxation

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1) Trauma
2) Arthritis
- RA
- CPPD
3) Congenital
- Down
- Morquio’s
- Congenital hypoplasia of dens/ Os odontoideum
4) Ligamentous Laxity
- Marfan’s
- Ehlers-Danlos
5) Adjacent infection (tonsilitis, pharyngitis)

87
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Paravertebral Ossification

A

1) Asymmetric
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
2) Symmetric
- AS
- Enteropathic arthropathy
3) DISH (anterior)
4) TB (focal mass)

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Disc Calcification

A

1) Degenerative disc dz
2) CPPD
3) AS
4) Surgical fusion

89
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Enlarged Vertebrae

A

1) Paget’s
2) ABC
3) Acromegaly

90
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Posterior Scalloping of Vertebrae

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1) Inc Spinal Pressure
- Neoplasm (lipoma, ependymoma, schwannoma)
- Syrinx
- Long standing hydro
2) Dural Ectasia
- NF1
- Marfan’s
- Ehlers-Danlos
3) Achondroplasia
4) Acromegaly

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Anterior Scalloping of Vertebrae

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1) Aortic aneurysm
2) LNs
3) TB

92
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Absent Pedicle

A

1) Met
2) ABC
3) Congenital absence (contralateral hypertrophy)

93
Q

Dense Pedicle

A

1) Osteoblastic met
2) Osteoblastoma
3) Congenital absence of contralateral pedicle

94
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Dense Vertebral Endplates

A

1) Degenerative disc dz
2) Renal Osteodrystrophy
3) Osteopetrosis

95
Q

Increased Interpedicular Distance

A

1) Trauma
2) Syrinx
3) Intraspinal tumor
4) Dysraphism
5) AVM

96
Q

Gibbus Deformity

A

1) Congenital (achondroplasia)
2) TB (Pott’s dz)
3) Fracture
4) Vertebra plana

97
Q

Expansile Sternal Lesion

A

“MAC”
Mets/Myeloma
ABC
Chondrosarcoma

98
Q

Floating Teeth

A

1) EG
2) Lymphoma/Leukemia
3) Periapical abscess
4) 1ry mandibular tumor

99
Q

Focal Marrow Edema

A

1) Trauma (contusion, stress #)
2) Osteoid osteoma
3) AVN
4) Transient regional osteoporosis
5) Infection
6) Other neoplasm

100
Q

Cyst Like Masses (Low T1, High T2)

A

1) Hematoma
2) ABscess
3) Bursa
4) Synovial cyst
5) Ganglion cyst
6) Myxoid Tumors
- Myxoma
- Myxoid liposarcoma
- MFH
- Chondrosarcoma

101
Q

Soft Tissue Neoplasm

A

1) Lipomatous
2) Sarcoma (MFH, Synovial)
3) Angiomatous
4) Neurogenic
5) Fibromatosis
6) PVNS

102
Q

Bilateral Tendon Tears

A

1) Steroid use
2) Renal failure
3) DM
4) CTD (SLE, RA)

103
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Cortical Based Tumors

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1) Mets
2) Myeloma
3) NOF
4) Osteoid Osteoma
5) ABC
6) Chondromyxoid Fibroma
7) Adamantinoma
8) EG

104
Q

Malignant Transformation of Bone Tumors

A

1) FD –> Osteosarcoma, Fibrosarcoma
2) Paget’s –> Osteosarcoma
3) OM w/ Draining Sinus –> SCC
4) Radiation –> OSA, Chondrosarcoma, MFH
5) Bone Infarct –> Fibrosarcoma, MFH
6) Ollier’s/Maffucci –> Chondrosarcoma
7) Hereditary Exostosis –> Chondrosarcoma

105
Q

Radial Hypoplasia

A

1) VACTERL
2) Holt-Oram
3) Fanconi’s anemia

106
Q

Widened Pubic Symphysis

A

1) Congenital
- Bladder exstrophy
- Cleidocranial dysplasia
- GU or anorectal malformations
2) Bone Resorption/Destruction
- Pregnancy
- Osteitis pubis
- Infection
- Mets
- HyperPTH

107
Q

Platyspondyly

A

1) Diffuse
- Dwarf syndromes
- OI
- Morquio’s
2) Solitary
- Leukemia
- EG
- Mets/Myeloma
SCD

108
Q

Acquired Lucent Ribs

A

1) Acromegaly
2) Cushing’s dz
3) Scurvy

Radiology (15 decks)

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