SBD Flashcards
Hormones & nutrients stimulating bone production
Gh, T3/T4, Calcitonin, Vit C, Vit D
Hormones inhibiting bone production
PTH, Cortisol
increased radiolucency or decreased density of bone
-resorption exceeds formation
osteopenia
Causes of increased radiolucency/Decreased bone density
osteoporosis, osteomalacia, hyperparathyroidism, rickets, scurvy, neoplasm
linear radiolucencies
osteomalacia
Hormone that produces subperiosteal and subchondral resorption
HPT
Produces focal lesions
plasma cell myeloma
How much bone loss is needed before detected on X-ray?
30-50%
Qualitatively normal, quantitively deficient bone
osteoporosis
compression fx, increased thoracic kyphosis, bony fx (prox femur, ribs, humerus, radius) are common in….
Osteoporosis
hip fx ____ in women eveyr 5 yeras after 60
double
Senile osteoporosis, postmenopausal osteoporosis, transient/regional osteoporosis
primary osteoporosis
corticosteroids, malignancy, infxn, arthridities, disuse, RSD
secondary osteoporosis
Age-related osteopenia
senile & postmenopausal osteoporosis
Endocrinopathy (osteopenia)
acromegaly, hyperparathyroidism, cushings, pregnancy, heparin, alcoholism
gradual loss of skeletal mass seen with advancing age
senile osteoporosis
increased bone loss seen in women following menopause
postmenopausal osteoporosis
Characteristics of senile/postmenopausal osteoporosis
pain (due to microfx), loss of ht/compression fx, increased kyphosis
Osteoporosis risk factors
female, >70y/o, caucasian or asian, early onset of menopause, long postmenopausal interval, inactivity
Modifiable osteoporosis risk factors
smoking, alcohol, caffeine (excess), excess dietary protein consumption, lack of Ca, lack of sunlight
Osteoporosis rad features
osteopenia, cortical thinning (pencil-thin), resorption of nonstress-bearing trabeculae, accentuated vertical struts, altered vertebarl shape, changes in vertebral contour, uniform decrease in radiodensity, wedge-shaped vertebrae (fish/codfish deformity, schmorls nodes, endplate infractions)
Decreased bone density, trabecular changes (accentuated primary trabeculae/pseudo-hemangioma), washed out, cortical thinning, changes is vertebral shape
Cod Fish deformity
Osteoporosis in an extremity
thinned cortices, endosteal scalloping, loss of secondary trabeculae, risk of fx
Trabecular patterns of the hip
Primary compressive (medial), secondary compressive (lateral), primary tensile (across) *look at picture in book*
Ward’s triangle
confluence of the trabecular groups, forms a triangle of radiolucency
radiographic hip features (osteoporosis)
& clinical
alteration of trabecular pattern, thin cortices, at risk for insufficiency fx
Clinical: high hyroxyproline lab value
MC primary tumor in adults
plasma cell myeloma (multiple myeloma)
Other path findings with osteoporosis/osteopenia
mets, anemia, nutritional deficiencies, diabetes mellitus, immunodeficient, chronic liver disease
diffuse significant osteopenia (esp in young patient), compression fx, patho fx, multiple lytic calvarial lesions, punched out lesions
Multiple Myeloma