Path Pics Flashcards
(115 cards)
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Name the cell at each arrow.
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top: osteoblasts
middle: osteocytes
bottom: osteoclasts
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Name cells at arrow.
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osteoblast
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Name the structures at the arrows.
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left black: osteoclast
right black: osteocyte
green: Howship lacunae (pits created by osteoclasts)
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Name the structures at each arrow.
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black: periosteum
blue: bone marrow
green: residual cartilage
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Name the stages of bone formation at the epiphyseal plate.
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green: proliferation
black: maturation
blue: mineralization
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What type of bone is in each picture?
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left: lamellar bone
right: woven bone (weaker, coarse random orientation): normally remodeled to lamellar
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blue sclerae
osteogenesis imperfecta type I
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small misshapen teeth due to dentin deficiency
osteogenesis imperfecta type I
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lots of fractures in utero
osteogenesis imperfecta type II
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top: marked reduction in both the marrow space and haversion system
bottom: abscence of osteoclasts and cortical-appearing bone
Osteopetrosis
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top arrow: osteosclerosis
bottom arrows: Erlenmeyer flask shaped deformity
osteopetrosis
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irregular bony trabeculae, increased number and containing residual strips of unremodeled cartilage (blue-gray within the pink)
osteoclasts are not increased
marrow cavity shows hematopoiesis (dark cells) but the size of the marrow cavity is markedly reduced by the excess, only partially ossified trabeculae
Osteopetrosis
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distal ends of long bones are flared, frayed and cupped
distance between the distal end of the radius and metacarpal bones wider than normal (filled with osteoid)
Rickets
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pigeon chest
Rickets
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frontal bossing
Rickets
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rachitic rosary
Rickets
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bowing of the legs
Rickets
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Normal costochondral junction of child on left. Describe Right.
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Rachitic costochondral junction: palisades of cartilage is lost.
darker trabeculae are well formed bone. Paler trabeculae: uncalcified osteoid.
Rickets
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normal bone
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osteoporotic bone
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Normal on left.
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osteoporosis
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Hip fracture
osteoporosis
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acute osteomyelitis
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osteomyelitis
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Arrows? Disease?
gray: involcrum (subperiosteal shell of reactive viable new bone)
yellow: sequestrum (inner necrotic cortex)
Osteomyelitis
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left: dark necrosis
middle: red hemorrhage
right: purulence
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top and middle arrow: necrotic bone (EMPTY LACUNAE)
bottom arrow: neutrophils
osteomyelitis
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osteomyelitis in diabetes
large area of necrosis and ulceration casued by small vessel atherosclerotic disease, peripheral neuropathy, impaired neutropinl function of diabetes
right: straight arrow: draining sinus; curved arrow: squamous carcinoma (white tissue)
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wedge shaped pale infarct
osteonecrosis/ avascular necrosis
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diffusely congested and hemorrhagic marrow
sickle cell crisis
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normal bone marrow
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What are the three phases numbered?
What is this?
1. lytic
2. mixed
3. sclerotic
Paget's
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cotton wool appearance of skull
Paget's disease
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irregular thick, coarse cortex and replacement of normal cancellous bone with coarse, thick bundles of trabecular bone
Paget Disease of bone
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mosiac or cement line pattern of lamellar bone
Paget disease of bone
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von Kossa stain: calcified tissue is black
surfaces of bony trabeculae are covered with layer of unmineralized osteoid: persistant osteoid
osteomalacia/ Rickets
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brown tumor: cystic and hemorrhagic, fibrous tissue and woven bone without matrix
hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica
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brown tumor: fibroblasts (left) mixed with osteoclasts (right) at edge of trabecula
hyperparathyroidism
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top left: hemotympanum
top right: mastoid ecchymoses (Battle sign)
bottom: periorbital ecchymoses (raccoon eyes)
Basilar skull fracture
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Location of all bone tumors for those less than 30.
Location of all bone tumors for those older than 30.
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Common locations of blood lesions.
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osteoma
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on face
osteoma
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sessile with polypoid shape around 3 cm
osteoma
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dense compact bone within a paucicellular stroma
osteoma
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colon polyps: gardner Syndrome
osteoma
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epidermoid cyst: Gardner syndrome
osteoma
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desmoid tumor: Gardner syndrome
osteoma associated
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osteoid surrounded by a rim of reactive bone
osteoid osteoma
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cortex of long bone
bony mass \<2cm with radiolucent core (osteoid)
black arrow: nidus usually \<1 cm
white arrow: surrounding bony sclerosis and cortical thickening
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left arrow: randomly interconnected trabeculae of woven bone, prominently rimmed by a single layer of osteoblasts
right arrow: stroma surrounding the neoplastic bone consists of loose connective tissue containing dilated and congested capillaries
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vertebrae: radiolucent lesion
osteoblastoma
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anastomosing trabeculae of osteoid and woven bone rimmed by osteoblasts
osteoblastoma
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codman trinagle: tumor margin destroys periosteal new bone before it ossifies (periosteom lifts)
osteosarcoma
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top arrow: normal bone
orange arrow: osteosarcoma invading normal bone: poorly formed bone spicules in a hypercellular matrix of osteoid and numerous pleomorphic malignant cells (bottom arrow)
LACE LIKE
formation of MALIGNANT OSTEOID by tumor cells is diagnostic
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tumor cells vary in size and shape and have hyperchromatic nuclei
bizarre tumor giant cells are common
mitoses (some abnormal: tripolar)
osteosarcoma
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osteosarcoma making malignant cartilage
chondroblastic osteosarcoma
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gray-white mass similar to normal cartilage (this one less well circumscribed than usual)
chondroma
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numerous chondrocytes closely packed near the periphery in a pink ground substance that vaguely resembles normal cartilage
(normal in left corner)
chondroma
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mushroom out of femur: starts as small outpouching of cartilage that grows proximally to the epiphyseal plate
osteochondroma
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prominent cartilage cap over mature bone
osteochondroma
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osteochondroma
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radiolucent nodule of hyaline cartilage with scalloped endosteal surface (this one has an associated pathologic fracture)
enchondroma
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cartilgae tumor (NO osteoid)
chondrosarcoma
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knee joint: highly destructive; bulk of tumor is distal, invading tibia but crosses joint space (malignant)
chondrosarcoma
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cells mimic normal chondrocytes: float in a chondroid-like matrix
chondrosarcoma
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high power: large nuclei, high nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio, abundant mitotic figures
chondrosarcoma
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\> 5 cm and intramedullary
fibrous cortical defect (non-ossifying fibroma)
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spindle cells in storiform pattern with scattered giant cells, histiocytes, cholesterol clefts, and hemosiderin
pinwheel
fibrous cortical defect (non-ossifying fibroma)
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fibrous cortical defect (non-ossifying fibroma)
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fibrous dysplasia
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variably sized circumscribed, medullary, tan-white, gritty mass lesions
big ones like this one: distort and expand bone
fibrous dysplasia
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poorly formed islets and trabeculae of woven bone, often with curvilinear shapes resembling Chinese characters, WITHOUT rim of osteoblasts
fibrous dysplasia
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moderately cellular fibroblastic proliferation with lots of collagen surrounding poorly formed islets and trabeculae of woven bone (like Chinese character)
fibrous dysplasia
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What are these?
What syndrome are they associated with?
What else is involved in this syndrome?
Cafe-au-lait skin
McCune-Albright syndrome
fibrous dysplasia, endocrine abnormalities (precocious puberty)
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soap bubble on epiphysis
giant cell tumor of bone
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regular and uniform distribution of stromal cells and giant cells
Giant Cell Tumor of Bone
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fibroblastic activity and formation of reactive bone and osteoid
Giant Cell Tumor of Bone
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white, fleshy, ill-defined tumor with extensive involvement of medulla and cortex with periosteal elevation
may be necrotic or resemble pus
Ewing sarcoma
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small round uniform cells, indistinct cell membranes, glycogen rich cytoplasm may appear clear
little stroma, no spindling
Ewing sarcoma
post treatment: marked pleomorphism, tumor giant cells
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periosteal reaction produces layers of reactive bone
ONION SKIN or SUNBURST
Ewing sarcoma
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Homer Wright rosettes: dark blue tumor cells surrounding pink fibrillar material resembling neuropil suggestive of neural differentiation
Ewing sarcoma
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Ewing Sarcoma
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femur: lytic lesion, fluid filled cyst with a thin wall
solitary bone cyst
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sponge filled with blood
aneurysmal bone cysts
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Low power: clotted lood in upper right and richly vascularized tissue in lower left
high power: sometimes there are giant cells (misdiagnosis of giant cell tumor)
differentiate by: RICH CAPILLARY BED
aneurysmal bone cyst
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metastatic bone tumor (from lung)
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lytic lesion: metastaic bone tumor (from breast)
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What type of cancer and what is it's origin?
How do you know?
metastatic bone tumor from prostate cancer
multiple osteoblastic (white) bone lesions
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ganglion cyst
cyst space, no epithelial lining, contains myxoid material
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giant cell tumor of tendon sheath
well circumscribed tumor: yellow due to lipid laden macrophages
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giant cell tumor of tendon sheath
multinucleated giant cells in background of histiocytes
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diffuse type tenosynovial giant cell tumor (pigmented vilonodular synovitis)
localized destructive lesion in single joint (knee usually): HEMOSIDERIN deposition and joint destruction
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mobile, slow growing, painless
lipoma
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lipoma
gross: well circumscribed YELLOW lobulated mass
micro: mature adipose
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arrow: lipoblast
liposarcoma
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left: well differentiated liposarcoma: adipocytes and scattered spindle cells
middle: myxoid liposarcoma: abundant basophilic matrix, CHICKENWIRE vessels, various stages of adipocyte differentiation (like fetal fat)
right: pleomorphic liposarcoma: anaplastic cells, bizarre nuclei, LIPOBLAST (immature adipocytes)
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deltoid
rapidly growing
nodular fasciitis
location in the subdermal fat
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nodular fasciitis
lots of cells
top arrow: plump immature fibroblasts in short fascicles
bottom arrow: abundant mitotic figures
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young athlete after trauma in proximal extremities
myositis ossificans
xray: periosteal reaction with EGGSHELL calcifiation
mature bone at periphery, fibrous materal at center with osteoid in between
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fibromatosis: superficial
nodular or poorly defined broad fascicles of fibroblasts in dense collagen
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superficial fibromatosis
left: palmar (Dupuytren contracture): irregular nodular thickening of palmar fascia; half are bilateral with progressive contracture of 4th and 5th fingers
middle: plantar; young patients, unilateral without contractures
right: penile (Peyronie) disease: palpable mass on dorsal penis with eventual curvature of shaft and/or constriction of urethra
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immunostain for beta-catenin
deep fibromatosis
gross: large, firm, white cut surface, infiltrative borders
micr: broad fascicles in dense collagen
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deep fibromatosis
encapsulated mass in mesentary of sigmoid colon draped on it
micro: bland, spindle cell proliferation with no mitoses or necrosis
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fibrosarcoma
HERRINGBONE PATTERN (chevrons repeated)
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rhabdomyoma
SPIDER CELL
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eosinophilic inclusions: RHABDOMYOBLASTS
Rhabdomyosarcoma
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rhabdomyosarcoma
bizarre cells with abundant cytoplasm (right), elongated strap cells recapitulate skeletal muscle cells (left arrow)
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middle: t(2:13) or t(1: 3)
right: myogenin (IHC stain)
rhabdomyosarcoma
left: embryonal: soft grey infiltrative mass composed of spindled and round cells in myxoid stroma
middle: alveolar: fibrous septae that divide cells into clusters or aggregate to resemble pulmonary alveoli, round cells with little cytoplasm
right: pleomorphic: large, sometimes multinucleated, bizarre eosinophilic tumor cells
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sarcoma botyoides: embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma
micro: lobulated masses of cells, covered by mucosa with underlying hypercellular zone of poorly differentiated cells (cambium layer)
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leiomyoma
densely eosinophilic spindle cells that often intersect at right angles
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leiomyoma of uterus
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leiomyosarcoma
eosinophilic spindle cells with blunt ended, hyperchromatic nuclei in interweaving fasicles
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synovial sarcoma
left: monophasic: uniform spindle cells with scant cytoplasm
right: biphasic: spindle cells but also gland like structures
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undifferntiated pleomorphic sarcoma
high grade waste basket
can't use histo to identify
sheet of anaplastic spindled to polygonal cells, atypical mitotic figures, bizzare nuclei
