Musculoskeletal, Skin and Connective Tissue Flashcards
Locally aggressive benign bone tumor, often around the knee. Soap bubble appearance on X Ray, seen in 20-40 year olds. Produces RANK ligand
Giant Cell tumor
Mature bone with cartilaginous cap (chondroid). Most often seen in males less than 25 years old.
Osteochondroma - rarely transforms to chondrosarcoma
Bone tumor with bimodal distribution: primary in 10-20 year olds, then again in > than 65 year olds. Paget disease of bone is the predisposing factor. Seen in the metaphysis of long bones. What is it and how does it present on X Ray?
Osteosarcoma, X ray sign = codman triangle.
“Onion skin” periosteal reaction in bone, commonly appearing in diaphysis of long bones in boys younger than 15. What genetic translocation is it associated with?
Ewing sarcoma - t(11;22)
Classic presentation of osteoarthritis
Pain in weight bearing joints after use, especially old and obese people (gets worse as the day goes on) improving with rest. Knee cartilage is lost medially so you become bowlegged. Non-inflammatory so no systemic symptoms.
Classic presentation of RA
Morning stiffness in females that improves with ~30 mins of getting up and moving around. Especially affects PIP and MCP joints. Symmetric joint involvement and systemic symptoms: fever, weight loss, pleuritic, pericarditis.
Deep bone pain, especially bad at night, usually in adolescent men
Osteoid osteoma
Painful, progressively enlarging centrally located bone tumor (pelvis, shoulder, ribs) of adults
Chondrosarcoma
Painful tumor of adolescents; sheets of compact cells within “chicken-wire” mineralized matrix causing spotty calcifications in lucent epiphyseal lesions around the knee
Condroblastoma
Non-neoplastic expansile lesions in patients with severe hyperparathyroidism
Osteitis fibrosis cystica
Small round blue cell childhood bone tumor with abundant glycogen and CD99 reactivity
Ewing sarcoma
Painful progressively enlarging lytic and blastic mass distal femur lifting periosteum forming a Codman triangle; with lung metastasis
Osteosarcoma
Most common soft tissue mass
Lipoma
Most common soft tissue sarcoma; whorled storiform pattern
Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma
Most common soft tissue sarcoma of children and young adults
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Most frequent neoplasms of infancy and childhood
Hemangioma
Cytogenetic abnormalities on chromosome 15 affect proteins involved in tissue repair like FGF-7
Nodular fascitis
Chronic inflammatory disease of spine and sacroiliac joints, uveitis, aortic regard. “Bamboo Sign” (vertebral fusion)
Ankylosing spondylitis
Mechanical joint wear and tear that destroys articular cartilage. Usually presents in old age in weight bearing joints and classically spares the MCP joint.
Osteoarthritis.