Tumour Flashcards
Labs to order in multiple myeloma workup
Serum labs:
- Anemia
- increased Cr
- hypercalcemia
- ESR (increased)
- SPEP (M-spike)
Urine
- Proteinuria
- UPEP (Bence-JOnes protein)
What is a Bence-Jones protein?
Light chain immunoglobulin found in multiple myeloma
can be kappa or lambda light chain
UPEP will show monoclonal light chains
Lifetime risk of malignant transformation for solitary osteochondroma?
1%
Most common benign tumour of childhood?
NOF
Two important differences between Maffucis and Olliers?
Maffucis has hemangiomas
Maffucis has higher risk of secondary malignant transformation (100% vs. 30%)
Which type of liposarcoma does not require adjuvant radiotherapy?
Well differentiated liposarcoma
Can you do limb salvage in osteosarcoma in a patient with a pathologic fracture?
Yes
However increased rates of local recurrence and decreased survival overall in these patients
Adult Patient with osteochondrama has acute onset of pain at the location of lesion. What do you suspect?
Sarcomatous transformation
Treamtent for osteosclerotic myeloma
Chemo + radio+ plasmapheresis
Generally no surgery needed
(This is a form of MM associated with POEMS)
What is the multidrug resistance gene (MDR)
Pumps chemo out of cancer cells
Present in 25% of primaries
50% of mets
Very poor prognostic indicator
What primary is very vascular, requiring embolization of lesions primary to ORIF?
RCC
Thyroid
What does GCT look like on MRI?
Dark on T1 and T2
List 4 types of surgical resection in terms of margins.
- intralesional (you cut into the tumor)
- marginal (you resect directly at the interface between tumor and normal tissue)
- wide (you resect the tumor with a cuff of normal tissue surrounding the tumor)
- radical (you resect the entire compartment from which the tumor arose)
Ddx for lytic lesion in greater than 40 year old
- Mets
- MM
- Lymphoma
- Metabolic (browns Tumor)
- Sarcoma
General treatment of soft-tissue sarcoma
En-bloc resection + adjuvant radiation
Diagnosis?
Melorheostosis
Periosteal formation of new bone
Looks like dripping candle wax
Benign but painful
Symptomatic treatment ± excision
Name these translocations!!
- t(2;13)
- t(11;22)
- t(X;18)
- t(12:16)
- Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma; t(2;13)
- Ewings Sarcoma; t(11;22)
- Synovial sarcoma; t(X;18)
- Myxoid liposarcoma; t(12:16)
Who gets Ewing’s sarcoma?
White males aged 10-20
What blood markers can be used to measure bone turnover?
ALP, LDH
What is stone man’s disease?
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Hallmarks:
- Progressive and EXTENSIVE heterotopic ossification (muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments, joint capsules)
- Congenital malformation of the great toe
Mutation in ACVR1 gene (activin A type I receptor)
Enchondromatosis is characterized by:
A) multiple enchondromas, hemangiomas, lymphangiomas
B) multiple enchondromas in a unilateral distribution
C) auto-dominant transmission, multiple enchondromas and osteochondromas
C
Poor prognostic indicators in Multiple myeloma (9)
Renal failure (worst)
hypercalcemia
Stage
Type (plasmacytoma has best prognosis)
chromosome 13 deletion or translocation (t4;14), 4(14;16)
circulating plasma cells
increased beta 2 microgloblulin (indicates elevated tumor burden)
decreased serum albumin
increased marrow microvessels
Surveillance of soft-tissue & osteosarcoma?
(They are the same)
Physical exam, CXR, CT Chest
1-2 years: 3 months
3-5 years: 6 months
5-10 years: yearly
Common locations of ABC?
Femur > tibia > spine
What part of an osteochondroma is usually the site for secondary malignant transformation?
Cartilage cap
Name the tumours associated with NF1
Wilm’s tumour
Optic glioma - part of dx criteria
Neurofibroma
Neuofibrosarcoma
Astrocytoma
meningioma
melanoma
leukemia
rhabdoyosarcoma
pheochromocytoma
carcinoma
pancreatic endocrine tumors
Options for fixation of a met? (Be general)
- ORIF Plate with cement versus nail
- Arthroplasty
- Endoprosthesis
Describe FU for solitary enchondroma with no concerning features:
serial x-rays
q3-6 months for 1-2 years, then annually
What is the incidence of post radiation sarcoma in an area previously radiated to treat malignancy?
13%
(more common if also had chemo)
When do osteochondromas stop growing?
At skeletal maturity
Episyphyseal lesions?
Chondroblastoma, infection, GCT
Does thickness of cartilage cap have an associated with risk of sarcomatous change in osteochondroma?
If so, what is the limit?
Yes, but only in adults (skeletally mature)
In kids, it is an unreliable finding
>2cm is a risk for change to chondrosarcoma
What is the main dDx for intramuscular myxoma that you must rule out?
myxoid liposarcoma
True or false, lipomas can present with pain?
True
Angiolipoma often present as a painful mass
Name some negative prognostic characteristics of osteosarcoma.
- Poor response to Neo adjuvant chemo (% necrosis)
- Tumour size (> 8 cm is bad)
- Patient age (old is bad)
- Higher stage of Tumor
- Anatomical site (central is bad)
dDx for soft tissue sarcoma?
Soft-tissue sarcoma
hematoma
infection
±HO/MO if within a muscle
Chrondroblastomas are located where?
Epiphysis
Lifetime risk of malignant transformation for olliers?
30%
What are characteristics of a metastasis on X-ray?
Lytic
Permeative
Diaphysis/metadiaphysis
Proximal long bone or spine
Describe the Enneking system for classifying malignant tumours.
Three factors: Grade, site and metasteses
Grade is high or low
Site is intracompartmental (enclosed by natural barriers) or extracompartmental
Parosteal osteosarcoma with invasion into medullary cavity - what is the affect on prognosis?
No effect - still good prognosis
Name 2 scoring systems that may help you decide whether to operate on a pathologic spine tumour
Spinal instability neoplastic score
based on: location, pain, type of lesion, spinal alignment, vertebra body collapse, involvement of posterior elements
Score:
0-6: stable
7-12: impending instability
13-18: unstable
Modified Tokohashi Scoring system
based on: Karnofsky performance status, # of extraspinal bony mets, # of vertebral body mets, Mets to major organs, primary site of cancer, palsy
Score
0-8: <6 months life expecancy: conservative + palliative
9-11: life expectancy > 6 months: palliative surgery
12-15: life expectancy > 1 year. Excisional surgery
I think the principles of these scoring systems are imporant
JAAOS 2015
Dx & Treatment?
Parosteal osteosarcoma
These are usually low grade
Treat with Wide-resection only (usually curative)
Chemo generally not indicated unless there is a high grade component
Presentation of glomus Tumour
Triad:
- cold sensitivity
- point tenderness
- intermittent severe pain
Also may have a bluish-reddish hue
Occur in subungal region
X-rays will show a scalloped, osteolytic defect
Name the 5 subtypes of liposarcoma.
Well differentiated liposarcoma
Myxoid liposarcoma
Pleomorphic liposarcoma
Dedifferentiated liposarcoma
Mixed-type liposarcoma
What is the most common sarcoma in the foot?
Synovial sarcoma
Soft tissue tumours that mets via LN & to places other than lungs
SCREAM
Synovial sarcoma
Clear cell sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Epitheliod sarcoma
Angiosarcoma
Myxoid liposarcoma
Name 2 sarcomas for which excisional bx can be performed
Parosteal osteosarcoma
low grade chondrosarcoma
*not sure I would say this on an exam
It’s from AAOS CORE2
What is a defining feature on histo for extra-articular desmoid tumour?
100% positive for estrogen receptor-beta
4 Options for treating PVNS (think techniques)
Arthroscopic synovectomy: best for focal disease
arthroscopic + open synovectomy (ie arthroscopic + open posterior knee approach)
Total joint arthroplasty + synovectomy
Total synovectomy + arthrodesis
± radiation - addition of radiation combined with total synovetomy reduces recurrence to 10-20%
Risks for post-radiation fracture
Female
Anterior femoral compartment resection
Age
Periosteal stripping
Radiation dose
osteoporosis
2 negative prognostic indicators of CMF
children
lobulated with abundant myxoid material
Football player suffered injury after helmet to groin hit. Residual non-tender mass.
Diagnosis?
Treatment?
Myositis ossificans
Non-operative - most resolve in a year or so
If recalcitrant, excise, but not before it matures (> 6 months)
Note x-ray: it calcifies from outside in, vs. tumour, which goes inside out
Olliers is characterized by:
A) multiple enchondromas, hemangiomas, lymphangiomas
B) multiple enchondromas in a unilateral distribution
C) auto-dominant transmission, multiple enchondromas and osteochondromas
B
What colour is bone matrix on staining?
Pink
What findings differentiate chondrosarcoma from a benign lesion?
1) myxoid matrix - may still have chondroid matrix, but generally the more myxoid the higher the grade
2) cortical thinning or thickening
3) soft tissue mass
4) invasion of haversian system
5 tumors that can have an associated ABC?
- giant cell tumor
- chondroblastoma
- fibrous dysplasia
- chondromyxoid fibroma
- NOF
Fallen leaf sign
what is it
what is it pathognomonic for?
Cortical fragment in the bottom of an empty cyst
UBC
4 associated conditions of NOF
Jaffe-Campanacci syndrome
Neurofibromatosis
Familial multifocal NOF
ABC
What is the treamtnet of low-grade intramedullary osteosarcoma?
Surgial resection only
This is the exception of the usual rule of chemo-sx-chemo for sarcoma
Components of local staging?
MRI to characterize lesion (of entire bone)
Biopsy (can do soft tissue mass)
Send for pathology and cultures
Adequate hemostasis
Good lesional tissue
Use pathology to prognosticate
Physical exam for metastasis with unknown origin must include?
Thyroid exam
Lung exam
Abdomen exam
Breast/prostate exam
Describe the bones in enchondromatosis?
Dysplastic
They are not normal and can have deformities
Young, thirsty kid with these findings.
Diagnosis?
Hans-Schuller-Christian disease (disseminated eosinophilic granuloma)
Classic triad:
Exophthalmos
Diabetes insipidus
Lytic skull lesions
What malignant tumour can secondarily arise from a bone infarct, Paget’s disease or prior radiation?
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
(aka Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma)
What do you do following unplanned excision of soft tissue sarcoma?
Work up as normal
Local staging to look for extent of tumour bed and contamination
Systemic staging to look for mets
Definitive is re-resection of tumour bed and all associated contaminated compartments
Radiotherapy (controversial whether pre or post-op)
Tumour association with poly-vinyl chloride
Angiosarcoma
very aggressive vascular tumour
Overall prognosis for multiple myeloma?
What confers the worst prognosis?
Poor
Median survival 3 years from diagnosis
5 year survival: 30%
10 years survival: 10%
Shortest survival in patients with renal failure
Name 3 syndromes assocaited with Fibrous Dysplasia
McCune Albright
Mazabraud
Osteofibrous dysplasia
What sarcoma has flat epithelial cells on pathology?
Synovial sarcoma
What is radiation dose for HO prophylaxis?
6Gy
(vs. 45-60 for soft tissue sarcoma)
Genetics for myxoid liposarcoma
t(12;16)
Creates CHOP-TLS fusion protein
What physeal zone does osteochondroma/MHE stem from?
Proliferative
What Tumor stains for MIC2 antigen?
Ewing’s sarcoma.
This is how you differentiate it from other small round blue cell tumors.
What is the most common malignant bone tumour of the hand?
Chondrosarcoma
THINK: common to have enchondromas in hand, so one of them must transform
3 non-neoplastic things to consider adding on to the end of a ddx for bone lesion?
EG
Infection
Hyperparathyroidism (if older)
What is the recurrence rate of osteoid osteoma treated with percutaneous radiogrequency ablation?
10-15%
Describe Harington’s Criteria
>50% destruction of diaphyseal cortices
>50-75% destruction of metaphysis (>2.5cm)
Permeative destruction of the subtrochanteric fermoal region
persistent pain following irradiation
Treatment of osteofibrous dysplasia?
nonoperative - observation
bracing if deformity interfering with walking
OR if you need correction of deformity (osteotomy)
Cause of Paget’s
Thought to be a slow viral infection by paramyxovirus or RSV as most are spontaneous
There is a small group of heritable Paget’s also
What kind of matrix does ewings usually have?
None
Poor prognostic indicators for EG
involvement at young age
rapid disease progression
organ involvement (eg pituitary, lung, hematopoietic, or liver involvement);
*organ dysfunction carries an especially poor prognosis
Older than 40 , blastic lesion DDx (4)?
Metastases (prostate)
Bone island
Bone infarct
Osteoblastoma
Infection
Name two enchondroma syndromes.
- Olliers
- Maffuccis
Classic findings of Hans-Christian-Schuller Disease
Disseminated form of EG
Triad:
Skull lesions
diabetes insipidus (thirst)
Exopthalmos (double vision)
Osteolysis in tumour is caused by the action of what cytokine on what cell?
RANKL on osteoclastic cells (not on tumour cells)
Genetically, how does osteofibrous dysplasia differ than regular fibrous dysplasia?
It doesn’t have the Gs alpha activating mutation
Name the basic biopsy principles.
- Biopsy through (single) involved compartment
- Use extensile incision (usually longitudinal)
- Meticulous hemostasis
- Do not create multiple planes
- Bring out drains in line with incision (so the tunnel can be removed with definitive resection)
- should biopsy soft tissue component of bone tumour if possible
- round holes in bone, not square
- do not exanguinate before tourniquet
- avoid nv structures
Compare pre vs. post operative radiation for soft tissue sarcoma:
Pre/neoadjuvant RTx:
Lower dose
Lower field (b/c you haven’t contaminated it with surgery)
Lower rates of fibrosis
Also lower rates of edema and joint stiffness, but not statistically significant (Lower overall functional rates if they had fibrosis, edema and stiffness)
HOWEVER: higher risk of wound infection
Generally, neoadjuvant (pre) RTx is better, even tho wound complications are higher
SR2 study: know this data - it’s canadian
6 lesions on the posterior elements of spine
G: giant cell tumour (although most commonly in vertebral body)
O: osteoblastoma
T: tuberculosis
A: aneurysmal bone cyst (only one PURELY found posteriorly)
P: Paget disease
E: eosinophilic granuloma
GO TAPE
4 posterior element tumours
ABC
osteoid osteoma
osteoblastoma
osteochondroma
What systemic pathology (ie non ortho) do people with Paget’s disease get?
high output cardiac failure
due to increased turnover of bone
What percentage of vertebral body tumours are malignanet?
75%
What bone metasteses are not redio sensitive?
Which is the most readio-sensitive?
1) GI and Renal
2) Prostate
Classic spine finding in eosinophilic granuloma
Name 1 other classic finding
Vertebra plana aka platyspondia
Multiple punched out/lytic cranial lesions (ask for skull x-ray)
Which side of the spine in an osteoid osteoma normally found in?
Concavity of the spine
Histology of ewings sarcoma?
Small round blue cells
How do you classify UBC?
Active - in continuity with physis
Latent - bony bridge between UBC and physis
Most common location of mets in soft tissue sarcoma
Lungs
They can mets to LNs, but lungs are still most common
Survival rate of chondrosarcoma
Directly correlates with histological grade:
Grade 1: 90%
Grade 2: 60-70%
Grade 3: 30-50%
De-differentiated: 10%
What are the main steps in treatment of malignant bone tumour?
- Neo adjuvant chemotherapy
- Re-stage with imaging for response to therapy and operative planning
- Surgery - limb sparing vs. amputation
- Post-operative chemotherapy - use pathology to prognosticate
Treatment?
Chordoma
Wide resection is standard of care
± radiation if:
positive margins
inoperable tumour
What is the most common cause of painful scoliosis in the adolescent population?
osteoid osteoma
5 complications with treatment of UBC
recurrence
fracture
embolizatio of injected material
local reaction to injected material
growth disturbances
What kind of tumour results from malignant transformation of a chronic OM?
what is the treatment?
SCC
Treat with wide excision/amputation + adjuvant chemo/rads
Prognosis is poor with late diagnosis, good with early
Patient comes in post-MVC with a pathologic fracture through this. Dx as ABC. What is your plan?
Non-operative fracture management
Once healed, then proceed with intralesional curettage
Remember to treat path fractures non-op!
4 predisposing genetic factors for intramedullary osteosarcoma
Rb +
p53
Rothmund thomson syndrome
LiFraumeni syndrome
60 yo F with constitutional symptoms, pain palpable mass. (see picture)
Dx & treatment
Lymphoma
Treatment is surgical stabilization, chemo, radiation
*Lymphoma can have a soft tissue mass!
*lymphoma: small round blue cell
What do the terms onion skinning and sunburst refer to on radiographs? Which Tumors are each characteristic of?
Types of periosteal reaction
Onion skinning = ewings
Sunburst = osteosarcoma
Age range for GCT?
20-40
indications for excisional bx
superficial to fascia
Not overlying NV structure
excise AND LEAVE BEHIND FASCIA
“Pop corn densities” are useful in differentiating what secondary malignancy from its benign precursor?
Secondary chondrosarcoma from enchondroma.
What is the histo of periosteal osteosarcoma
osteoid + chondroblastic matrix
If no osteoid, will be classified as chondrosarcoma
What tumor shows predilection for the distribution shown in this figure?
Giant Cell Tumor
Desribe AJCC classification system
Soft soft tissue tumours:
See picture
Name 5 signs/symptoms that are concerning for chondrosarcoma, you know, that may be in a stem of a question
Deep Endosteal scalloping (>2/3)
Pain/progressive pain
Night symptoms/constitutional symptoms
Periosteal reaction
Soft tissue extension
Lysis of prior chondroid mineralization
Ddx for multiple giant cell containing lesions?
Multifocal GCT
Browns Tumor
Management of hypercalcemia
Fluids (200-300mL/hr initially, then maintaining u/o 100-150mL/hr)
Calcitonin
Bisphosphonates
Can use denosumab if refractory to bisphosphonates
LOOP DIURETICS ARE NOW NOT RECOMMENDED
dDx for Benign Latent Lesion (3)
Osteochondroma
NOF
Enchondroma
Treatment for suspected low-grade chondrosarcoma (instead of enchondroma)
intralesional curettage
Histopathology of GCT?
Multinucleated giant cells.
May see bone.
Mononuclear stromal cells
Where is the most common place for sarcomas to metastasize?
- Lungs
- Another bone
What is Denosumab?
RankL inhibitor.
This is a ligand for the Rank receptor and acts as a signal for bone removal.
Denosumab is an analogue and used in GCT tumours to prevent bone turnover.
General treatment approach for bone sarcoma?
- Neo adjuvant chemotherapy, multi-agent
- Re-stage with imaging to assess for interim progression/metastases and pre-op planning
- Wide resection
- Chemotherapy - use response to pre-op chemo to prognosticate (% necrosis of surgical pathology) and target therapy
Name & decribe the possible life threatening complication of hemangioma
Kasabach-Merrit syndrome
entrapped platelets in the hemangioma leading to a possible fatal coaguloapthy
Phases of Paget’s disease
Lytic: osteoclastic resorption
Mixed: resorption & compensatory bone formation
Sclerotic: bone formation predominates
All 3 may exist at same time so Paget’s can look lytic, mixed or sclerotic (like OM its a mimicker)
Differential for small round blue cells on histology?
Ewing’s sarcoma
Lymphoma
Osteomyelitis
Multiple myeloma
Histiocytosis
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Neuroblastoma
(LERN’M)
What tumor shows predilection for the distribution shown in this figure?
Osteoid Osteoma
What happens to NOF as the patient grown and reaches skeletal maturity
Migrate to diaphysis as patient grows AND GET LARGER
Will then usually self-resolve (become sclerotic and then go away) as the patient reaches skeletal maturity
Local Recurrence rate for well differentiated vs. high grade?
Well differentiated: 10%
High grade: 20%
Benign tumours that can metastasize to lungs (2)
GCT
Chondroblastoma