Musculoskeletal Pathology Flashcards
Stages of pagets
- Osteoclastic
- Mixed osteoclastic-osteoblastic
- Osteoblastic
_________ inflammation in dermatomyositis. ________ inflammation in polymyositis.
Perimysial; Endomysial
NOTE: perimysial inflammation is characterized by CD4 cells, while endomysial inflammation is characterized by CD8 cells
__________ is more specific than rheumatoid factor in early and fully established rheumatoid arthritis
Anti-CCP (anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide) antibodies
mechanism of osteopetrosis
- Defective metaphyseal remodeling
- Small neural foramina compress exiting nerves
- Primary spongiosa fills medullary cavity
What are the types of Ehler Danlos Syndrome?
I/II- Classic
- Skin and joint hypermobility, atrophic scars, easy bruising
- Autosomal dominant
- COL5A1, COL5A2
III- Hypermobility
- Joint hypermobility, pain, and dislocation
- Autosomal dominant
IV- Vascular
- Thin skin, arterial or uterine rupture, bruising, small joint hyperextensibility
- Autosomal dominant
- COL3A1
VI- Kyphoscoliosis
- Hypotonia, joint laxity, congenital scoliosis, ocular fragility
- Autosomal recessive
- Lysyl hydroxylase (PLOD1)
Why is hepatosplenomegaly seen in osteopetrosis?
Bone growth in the medullary cavity prevents hematopoiesis in the bone marrow. This leads to extramedullar hematopoiesis (i.e. in liver)
Laboratory findings of RA
- Rheumatoid factor; marker of tissue damage and disease activity
- Neutrophils and high protein in synovial fluid
- Bilateral proximal muscle weakness
- Rash of the upper eyelids
- Red papules on the elbows, knuckles, and knees
Dermatomyositis
What is the affected molecule in achondroplasia?
FGFR3 (receptor)
Long, tapering fingers and toes called ____________.
Arachonodactyly
Another name for hyperparathyroidism
von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone
Tamoxifen
- SERM
- Binds to estrogen receptor
- Antiestrogenic on mammary epithelium, hence its use in both the prevention and treatment of breast cancer
- Proestrogenic on uterine epithelium
___________ are extra bone pieces that occur within a suture in the cranium.
Wormian bones
Symptoms of multiple myeloma
- Elevated calcium
- Renal failure
- Anemia
- Bone lesions
- Low back pain
- Bamboo spine
- Aortic regurgitation
Ankylosing spondyloarthritis
- Vertebrae bodies fuse
- Uveitis and aortitis
Components of hyaline cartilage
Water
Type II collagen
Activation of _________ on osteoclast precursor stimulates tyrosine kinase cascade.
M-CSF (Monocyte colony stimulating factor)
cause of primary gout
Hyperuricemia related to overproduction or decreased excretion of uric acid (derived from purine metabolism).
Transcient bacteremia (children) seeds _________.
Metaphysis
Mechanism by which CA2 defect leads to osteopetrosis
- CA2 required by osteoclasts and renal tubule cells to generate protons from carbon dioxide and water
- Absent CA2 prevents osteoclasts from acidyfing resorption pit and solubilizing hydroxyapatite
- Absent CA2 blocks acidification of urine by renal tubule cells causing renal tubular acidosis
osteoprotegerin
“Decoy” RANKL receptor that binds RANKL to prevent RANK-RANKL interaction, which leads to decreased osteoclast activity
Synoviocytes function
Produce proteins, hyaluronic acid (lubricant, nutrition for cartilage)
Causes of avascular necrosis
- Trauma or fracture
- Steroids
- SCA
- Caisson disease
Why does carbonic anhydrase type II defeciency result in osteopetrosis?
Acidic environment required for osteoclast activity is loss
NOTE: Renal tubular acidosis is also seen, due to decreased tubular reabsorption of HCO3-.
What is the characteristic cell of liposarcoma?
Lipoblast
What is the cause of the ankylosis of joints seen in RA?
Myoblasts
Hereditary multiple osteochondromatois
- Mutations in EXT1 (more severe) and EXT2 genes
- Rarely give rise to chondrosarcoma
- Growth after puberty
- Increasing pain
- Associated with thickening of cartilagenous cap
- Overal diameter >8cm
Complications of RA
Anemia of chronic disease
Secondary amyloidosis
treatment for septic arthritis
- methicillin resistant S. Aureus
- Vancomycin
- Pseudomonas aeruginoa
- Ceftazidime
Benign tumor associated with Gardener’s syndrome
Osteoma
histology of avascular necrosis osteonecrosis
Dead bone with epty lacunae
Fat necrosis
Pseudogout is due to deposits of __________.
calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD)
NOTE: Synovial fluid shows rhomboid-shaped crystals with weakly positive birefringence under polarized light
Acute treatment for gout?
Colchicine
NSAIDs
Corticosteroids
What soft tissue tumors are associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome?
Breat CA, OS, RBS, glioblastoma
Another name for reactive arthritis
Reiter syndrome
Causes of von Reckinghausen’s disease of bone
- Excessive or inappropriate PTH levels due to autonomous PTH secretion
- Primary due to parathyroid adenoma
- Hypercalcemia
- Secondary due to underlying renal disease
- Hypocalcemia due to renal failure stimulates PTH hypersecretion
- Nodular parathyoid hyperplasia in all 2 pathathyroid glands
- Hypocalcemia due to renal failure stimulates PTH hypersecretion
- Primary due to parathyroid adenoma
How does one get osteomyelitis from Brucella?
Unpasteurized goat’s milk
- Radiology
- Pseudofracture diagnostic (looser’s zone)
- Generalized osteopenia, rarefied pale bone
Osteomalacia
What is the affected molecule in osteogenesis imperfecta (types 1-4)?
COL1A1, COL1A2 (Type 1 collagen)
Raloxifene
- Selective estrogen receptor modulator
- Produces estrogen-agonistic effects on bone and lipid metabolism
- Produces estrogen-antagonistic effects on uterine endometrium and breast tissue
- FDA-approved SERM for treatment/prevention of postmentopausal OP
What are the characteristics of seronegative spondyloarthropathies?
- Lack of rheumatoid factor
- Axial skeleton involvement
- HLA-B27
FGF3
inhibits chondrocyte proliferation and aids chondrocyte differentiation
*Activating mutation in this gene in achondroplasia
What factors upregulate M-CSF and RANKL?
PTH, PGE2, activate vitamin D
Histology
- Increased unmineralized osteoid, widened osteoud seams
osteomalacia
Risk factors for osteosarcoma
Familial RB
Paget
Radiation exposure
Sequestrum
Lytic focus
Dysostosis
disorder of the development of bone, in particular affecting ossification
Characteristics of parvovirus in adults
- Acute tenderness of joints/arthitis hands, wrists, and knees for 2 wk; in 10% months
- Chronic anemia/RBC aplasia
- Sickle cell anemia, HIV+
Bine morphogenic proteins (BMP)
TGF-Beta family, chondropcyte proliferation/hypertrophy
Gout is the deposition of ___________ crystals in tissues, especially the joints.
Monosodium urate
What soft tissue tumors are associated with Maffucci syndrome?
- Spindle cell hemangioma
- Multiple enchrondomas
- 15% risk of chondrosarcoma
Degenerative disorder characterized by muscle wasting and replacement of skeletal muscle by adipose tissue
Dystrophy
Cardio problems in Marfan syndrome
- Dilated aortic root/ascending aorta
- Cystic medial necrosis
- Aortic dissection
- Dilated aortic root
- Blood in false lumen
- Occulsion of carotid artery
- Hemorrphage rupturing through aortic wall into pericardium
- Fatal cardiac tamponade
- Cause of death in 30-45%
How does Vitamin D raise serum calcium and phosphate?
- Acts on:
- Intestines
- Kidney
- Bone
__________ is due to defective mineralization of osteoid.
Rickets/ Osteomalacia
Causes of secondary gout
- Leukemia and myeloproliferative disorders
- Increased cell turnorver leads to hyperuricemia
- Lesh-Nyhan syndrome
- X-linked deficiency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT)
- Renal insufficiency
Gain of function mutations seen in achondroplasia
- Point mutation (Arg for Gly375) in FGFR3 on 4p16.13
- Constitutive activation of FGFR3 suppressing growth
Biopsy that reveals amosaic pattern of lamellar bone, would indicate what?
Paget’s disease
How is Vitamin D activated?
- 25-hydroxylation by the liver
- 1-alpha- hydroxylation by the proximal tubule of the kidney
Bracydatyly with trident hand
Achondroplasia
Cardiac rhabdomyoma is associated with _________.
Tuberous sclerosis
Synovial fluid anaylsis in Rheumatoid arthritis
- Inflammatory with neutrophils
- High protein content
- Low viscocity
- Poor mucin clot
Histologic hallmark of chronic osteomyelitis
Dead bone (sequestrum)
Fibrillin
- Glycoprotein, major component of microfibrils in extracellular matrix
- Makes a sheath around elastin
- Abundant in microfibrils in aorta, ligaments, and lens
In Marfan syndrome, elastic aortic wall is replaced by structurally weak _______.
Glycosaminoglycans
- Consequence: Aortic dilation
Adult forms of osteopetrosis have an increased risk of _______.
Osteomyelitis, especially jaw
Site of hematogenous acute ostomyelitis
Metaphysis because it has increased nutrient rich arteries and relatively fewer phagocytic cells than the physis or diaphysis
Lab findings of rhabdomyosarcoma
Desmin positive
First work up in swollen painful joint
Arthrocentesis
Angioid streaks on retina
Paget Disease of Bone
Unmineralized bone formed during remodeling.
Osteomalacia