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Pathology - Bone Pain Flashcards

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What are metabolic bone disorders

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Altered Ca or phosphate or disordered homeostasis

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Primary osteoporosis

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Senile OP

Post-menopausal OP

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Secondary OP

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Endocrine disorders e.g. hypeyerparathyroidism
GI disorders e.g. malnutrition
Drugs e.g. corticosteroids

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Pathogenesis of OP

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Age-related changes 
Reduced physical activity 
Genetic factors 
Ca nutritional status 
Hormonal influences
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Age related changes leading to OP

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Osteoblasts in older people have reduced proliferative and biosynthetic availability and don’t respond to growth factors as well as they used to

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Reduced physical activity leading to OP

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Mechanical factors stimulate normal bone remodelling

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Hormonal influences leading to OP

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Oestrogen deficiency after menopause increases secretions of infl cytokines —> osteoclast recruitment and activation

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Complications of OP fractures

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Fractures
PE - DVT due to lack of movement after fracture
Pneumonia

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Non-skeletal effects of infl

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Induction of immune cell differentiation and enhanced infl

Inhibition of tumour cell proliferation, induces differentiation and inhibits angiogenesis

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What is cancer caused by

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DNA mutations either induced by exposure to mutagens or spontaneously

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Hallmarks of cancer

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Sustaining proliferative signalling 
Evading growth suppressors 
Resisting cell death 
Enabling replicative immortality 
Inducing angiogenesis 
Reprogramming energy metabolism
Evading immune destruction 
Activating invasion/ metastasis
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What causes the hallmarks of cancers

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Underlying genome instability causing genetic diversity

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Tumour microenvironment

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Normal cells recruited by the tumour cells to help the development of these hallmark traits

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Oncogene categories

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Growth factors or growth factor receptors – these induce cell growth
Signal transducers – relay receptor activation to the nucleus
Nuclear regulators
Cell cycle regulators

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Regulators of apoptosis

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Prevent apoptosis in normal cells and promote it when mutated cells have DNA that cant be released
BCL2

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BCL2

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Normally stabilises the mitochondrial membrane blocking release of cytochrome c but can be disrupted by malignant cells

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Why do cancers upregylate telomerase

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Telomeres normally shorten w/ serial cell divisions, eventually causing cell senescence

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Angiogenic factors produced by cancers

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FGF and VEGF

New blood vessel formation is needed for tumour survival and growth

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Dysplasia

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Disordersed cell growth
Theoretically reversible w/ alleviation of the inciting stress
If stress persists, dysplasia can progress to carcinoma (irreversible)

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Neoplasia

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Growth that is unregulated, clonal and irreversible

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What causes neoplasia

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The autonomous/ relatively autonomous abnormal growth of cells that persists in the absence of the initiating stimulus

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Characteristics of benign tumours

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Remain localised
Slow growing
Closely resemble tissue from which they arise
Often circumscribed or encapsulated

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Characteristics of malignant tumours

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Invade the surrounding tissues and many have the capacity to metastasize
Often rapidly growing
Vary in their resemblance to the tissue of origin
Usually have an irregular margin

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In-stu carcinoma vs invasive carcinoma

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In situs carcinomas are epithelial neoplasms exhibiting all of the cellular features associated w/ malignancy, but which has not yet invaded through the epithelial basement membrane

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Routes of metastasis

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Blood vessels

Lymphatics

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Recognising malignant cells

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Increased nuclear to cytoplasmic ration
Nuclear pleomorphism and hyperchromasia
Irregular chromatin distribution within the nucleus +/- prominent nucleoli
Irregular nuclear membrane

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Recognising benign cells

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Low nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio
All nuclei of similar size and not hyperchromatic
Vesicular, evenly distributed chromatin
Smooth nuclear membranes

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Tumour classification

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Histogenetic classification; named after tissue/ cell of origin

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Tumour grading

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How closely the tumour resembles the tissue from which is arises (differentiated)
Indicator of how aggressive the tumour is likely to be
Grade 1 tumours are well differentiated and closely resemble the origin tissue, but Grade 3 tumours do not

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The higher the tumour grade…

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The worse the prognosis

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Factors influencing tumour invasion

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Decreased cell adhesion – cells must be able to separate and disperse integrin receptors allowing tumour cell matric adhesion
Secretion of proteolytic enzymes – to enter vessels
Increased cell motility

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Steps of tumour invasion of the basement membrane

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Loosening of intercellular junctions due to loss of cadherins (down regulated) and increased expression/ distribution of integrins
Degradation of the extracellular matrix due to proteolytic enzymes
Migration and invasion – cleavage of basement membrane proteins generate molecules that bind to receptors on tumour cells and stimulates locomotion

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What do we see in tumour associated fibroblasts

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Altered expression of genes that encode extracellular matrix molecules, proteases, protease inhibitors and growth factors

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Metastasis

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Process whereby malignant tumours spreads from the site of origin (1’ tumours) to form other tumours (2’ tumours) at distant sites.

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Carcinomatosis

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Describes extensive metastatic carcinoma.

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What must cells be able to do to metastasise

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Detach tumour cells from the neighbours
Invade the connective tissue to reach lymphatics and blood vessels
Intravasate into the lumen of vessels
Evade host defence mechanism e.g. NK cells and T lymphocytes
Adhere to endothelium as a remote location
Extravasate the cells of the vessel lumen into the tissue
Survive and grow in the new environment

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Seed and soil hypothesis

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Primary tumour
Proliferation/ angiogenesis
Detachment/ invasion Embolism/ circulation
Transport
Arrest in organs
Adherence to vessel wall
Extravasation and establishment of a microenvironment
Proliferation/ angiogenesis –> metastasis

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What does detachment/ invasion include

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Lymphatics
Venules
Capillaries

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What does embolism/ circulation

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Interaction w/ platelets, lymphocytes and other blood components

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Different routes of metastasis

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Lymphatic - more typical of carcinoma
Haematogenous - more typical of sarcoma
Transcoelemic

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Lymphatic metastasis

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Tumour cells travel through afferent lymphatics to enter lymph nodes
Cause lymph nodes to enlarge and become firm
May extend lymph node and causes adherence
Interrupts lymphatic flow

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Which part of the lymph nodes do tumour cells travel to

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Subcapsular sinus

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Transcoelemic metastasis

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Metastasis to the peritoneal, pleural and pericardial cavities
Can cause ascites

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How do tumours evade the immune system

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Destruction by selection of antigen negative clones
Loss of MHC molecules
Expression of transforming growth factor beta or PD1 ligands by the tumour cells

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Tumour staging

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Extent of tumour staging

TMN

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TMN

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T - primary tumour, suffixed by number denoting size, or anatomical extent
N - lymph node spread, suffixed by number denoting no. lymph nodes or group of lymph nodes containing metastases
M: anatomical extent of distant metastases

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When are clinical effects of tumours inconsequential

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If the organ is large relative to the size of the tumour and no vital structure is threatened

48
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Local effects of tumours

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Destruction
Displacement
Compression

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Metabolic effects of tumours

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Well-differentiated tumours retain the functional properties of the parent cell e.g. hormone production

50
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When can paraneoplastic syndromes result

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I§nappropriate secretion of a hormone by a tumour that does not normally secrete the hormone.

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Systemic effects of cancer

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Cachexia 
Warburg effect 
Neuropathy 
Myopathy 
Venus thrombosis 
Glomerular
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Cachexia

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Severe wt loss and debility in a cover pt

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Warburg effect

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Cancer cells have a high rate of glycolysis with formation of lactic acid as opposed to pyruvate in normal cells

54
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Mortality associated with neoplasia in lungs

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Bronchopneumonia

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Mortality associated with neoplasia in bone

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Hypercalcaemia –> renal failure and cardiac arrhythmias

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Mortality associated with neoplasia in liver

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Electrolyte abnormalities

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Mortality associated with neoplasia in blood vessels

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Haemorrhage or vessel obstruction –> heart failure

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Mortality associated with neoplasia in brain

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Raised intracranial pressure, compressing respiratory centre in brainstem

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Mortality associated with neoplasia in GI tract

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Obstruction → impair nutrition, ulceration/ perforation

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TMN - T

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Tubule formation

The extent to which the tumour forms tubules

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TMN - T scores

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1: >75% of tumour
2: 10-75% of tumour
3: <10% of tumour

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TMN - N

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Nuclear pleomorphism

The size of the nuclei in the cells of the tumour compared to normal nuclei

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TMN - N scores

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1: Similar in size to benign epithelial cells
2: 1.5 - 2x size of benign epithelia; cells
3: >2x size of benign epithelial cells

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TMN - M

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Mitotic count

How rapidly cells are dividing (depends on microscope field diameter)

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TMN - M scores

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1: Low count (per 10 high power fields)
2: Intermediate count
3: High count

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Grade 1 tumour scores

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Total score 3-5

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Grade 2 tumour scores

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Total score 6-7

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Grade 3 tumour scores

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