Nichols Bone and Cartilage tumors

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what q do you ask of tumors

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age, sex, location, radiographic appearance

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chondroma lots of chondrocytes packed by periph in pink ground substance

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chondroma

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osteogenic sarcoma is how many/

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20% of primary bone cancers is osteogenic sarcoma

MOST COMMON primary bone tumor

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who gets osteogenic sarcoma

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75% are <20 yo

samller peak in elderly – Paget, irradiation can become this

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where is osteosarcoma

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knee

metaphysis of long bones

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genes in osteosarcoma

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Rb

MDM2

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clinical symp of osteosarcoma

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painful, progressively enlarging

fractures

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in sporadic osteosarcoma, the majority of osteosarcomas, Rb mut?

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NO. just if retinoblastoma.

instead it would have MDM2 overexpression

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chondrosarcoma at knee invading tibia do NOT resect joint spaces

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chondrosarcoma

big nuc, mitoses

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chondrosarcoma cellular mimic normal chondrocytes but big nuc and mitoses

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enchondroma

scalloped edges

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ewing sarcoma aka pnet w small round blue clles glycogen rich cytoplasm can vacuolate almsot. sheets of cells

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ewing sarcoma in endopyysis of long bone

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giant cell tumor of bone hazy mass destroyign distal femur

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what is diagnostic of osteosarcoma?

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MALIGNANT OSTEOID. aka formation of bone by tumor cells. see fine, lacelike architecture or broad sheets

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reactive bone and osteoid

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homer wright rosettes sugg neural diff in a pnet ewing sarcoma

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osteochondroma prominent cartilage cap

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osteochondroma

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osteoid osteoma random trabec of woven bone rimmed by a layer of osteoblasts congested caps

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osteosarcoma goes where?

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LUNG

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osteosarcoma

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osteosarcoma codman triangle

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osteosarcoma invades bone and prod poor spicules in hypercell matrix of osteoid and pleomorph malig cells

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what is codman triangle

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osteosarcoma lifted periosteum forming triangular shell of reactive bone on periph. characteristic but not pathognomonic

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osteosarcoma making cartilage. tumor cells turning pink

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osteosarcoma codman triangle and bone pushing out

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osteosarcoma w varying tumor cell sizes and hyperchrom nuc weird giant cells and mitoses

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joint space

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respected by benign tumors but malignant tumors invade

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osteosarcoma

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pnet aka ewing sarcoma "onion skin"

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describe ewing sarcoma

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medulla of diaphysis of long bone onion skin appearance bc layers of reactive periosteum and neoplasm

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who gets ewing sarcomas

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often younger (20 yo for example)

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microscopic apperance of ewing

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small blue cells not many mitoses glycogen rich cytoplasm structureless sheets of cells prominent necrosis in geographic pattern

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Homer Wright rosette

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dark blue tumor cells w surrounding pink fibrillar material like neuropil Ewing Sarcoma

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commonest neoplasm in bone is?

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METASTASIS renal cell carcinoma breast cancer lung cancer etc