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Which imaging modality is particularly advantageous in evaluating subtle bone marrow abnormalities and visualizing trauma in patients with claustrophobia?

  • Radiography
  • Computed Tomography (CT)
  • Nuclear Medicine Procedures
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (correct)
  • Which imaging modality is most suitable for the initial assessment of a patient presenting with suspected bone metastases?

  • Radiography
  • Nuclear Medicine Procedures (correct)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Computed Tomography (CT)
  • A patient with suspected osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) undergoes imaging. Which modality is most likely to be utilized for prenatal diagnosis of OI types II, III, and IV?

  • Prenatal testing using cultured skin fibroblasts (correct)
  • Radiography
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Computed Tomography (CT)
  • A patient presents with a slowly growing tumor in their skull, causing obstruction. Which benign tumor is most likely the cause?

    <p>Osteoma (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which imaging modality is considered the primary method for examining trabecular patterns and assessing bone involvement in tumors?

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    What is the most common cause of osteomyelitis in adults?

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    Which of the following is NOT a diagnostic factor for bone tumors?

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    In assessing a patient with suspected avascular necrosis, which imaging modality is most likely to be employed due to its sensitivity in detecting early changes in bone metabolism?

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    A patient presents with a bone tumor that shows expansion of the bone with sharp, sclerotic margins. This is likely a characteristic of which type of tumor?

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    Which of the following is NOT a common sign or symptom of osteomyelitis?

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    A patient presents with suspected osteomyelitis. Which imaging modality, apart from radiography, would be particularly useful in confirming the diagnosis and differentiating between acute and chronic infection?

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    Which imaging modality offers the ability to provide whole-body assessments of skeletal pathology, contributing to the differentiation of old injuries from new bone problems?

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    Which bone(s) are most commonly affected by osteomyelitis in children?

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    A young patient presents with a blood-filled cyst in the metaphysis of a long bone. What is the most likely diagnosis?

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    What is the term for premature closure of cranial sutures?

    <p>Craniosynostosis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following imaging modalities is considered superior for evaluating spinal cord, nerve roots, and disk assessment?

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    What is the most common site affected by Tuberculosis?

    <p>Hip, knee, and spine (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic radiographic appearance of tuberculosis affecting bone?

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    What is the term for the softening and collapse of vertebrae caused by tuberculosis?

    <p>Pott's Disease (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a characteristic symptom of infectious arthritis?

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    What is the main difference between osteomyelitis and infectious arthritis?

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    Which of the following is a characteristic radiographic feature of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)?

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    Which of the following is NOT a potential clinical feature of Achondroplasia?

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    In Osteopetrosis, mutations occur in which gene?

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    What is the main characteristic that distinguishes Osteopetrosis from Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)?

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    Which of the following is a potential complication of OI Congenita?

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    What is the typical inheritance pattern of Achondroplasia?

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    Which of the following is NOT a radiographic sign typically observed in Osteogenesis Imperfecta?

    <p>Increased bone density (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which genetic disorder is associated with a higher risk of neural compression due to narrowing of the foramen magnum?

    <p>Achondroplasia (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary pathophysiological mechanism underlying Achondroplasia?

    <p>Impaired endochondral bone formation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a potential treatment option for Achondroplasia?

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    Which of these conditions is MOST likely to present with a radiographic finding of 'bamboo spine'?

    <p>Ankylosing Spondylitis (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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    Spondylolysis

    A cleft or breakdown of a vertebral body, often in the fifth lumbar vertebra.

    MRI vs. CT

    MRI is noninvasive and better for soft tissue, while CT is preferred for bone anatomy.

    Benign vs. Malignant Tumors

    Benign tumors often have sharp margins and expand, while malignant tumors infiltrate and destroy margins.

    Enneking's Staging System

    Classifies bone tumors based on grade, extent, and metastatic presence.

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    Osteochondroma

    Most common benign bone tumor; often arises in the metaphysis and may affect the knee joint.

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    COL1A1 and COL1A2 mutations

    Mutations in these genes affect type I collagen production leading to bone and connective tissue disorders.

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    Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)

    Genetic disorder caused by mutations affecting collagen, leading to fragile bones and other symptoms.

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    OI Congenita

    A severe form of OI present at birth, characterized by multiple fractures and deformities.

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    OI Tarda

    A milder form of OI that manifests later in life, often with fewer fractures.

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    Achondroplasia

    A genetic disorder causing dwarfism due to impairment in bone growth, notably affecting limb length.

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    FGFR3 gene

    The gene associated with achondroplasia, located on chromosome 4p, causing inhibited bone formation.

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    Osteopetrosis

    A rare bone disorder characterized by increased bone density and brittle bone structure due to genetic mutations.

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    Infantile Malignant Osteopetrosis

    A severe form of osteopetrosis that presents in infancy, often fatal if untreated.

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    Ilizarov procedure

    A surgical technique used to lengthen bones; applicable in conditions like achondroplasia.

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    Imaging Modalities

    Different imaging techniques used to assess skeletal pathology, including radiography, MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine.

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    Radiography

    A technique that uses X-rays to create images of bones, revealing fractures, dislocations, and soft tissue issues.

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    MRI

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging provides superior soft tissue detail and is used for joint evaluations and soft tissue tumors.

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    Computed Tomography (CT)

    CT scans provide detailed images of bones and soft tissues, effective in assessing fractures and joint conditions.

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    Nuclear Medicine

    Imaging technique that assesses whole-body pathology and can differentiate new from old injuries, often through bone scans.

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    Bone Scans

    A nuclear medicine procedure used to evaluate bone metabolic activity, typically used for detecting metastatic disease.

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    Radiographic Changes

    Indicators seen on X-rays including swelling, osteoporosis, erosion, and joint deformity.

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    Rheumatoid Factor (RF)

    Serological test used to diagnose rheumatoid arthritis by detecting antibodies in the blood.

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    Ankylosing Spondylitis

    A progressive arthritis affecting the spine, common in young men, characterized by back pain and stiffness.

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    Bamboo Spine

    A radiographic feature of ankylosing spondylitis showing calcification and rigidity of spine resembling bamboo.

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    HLA-B27 Test

    A blood test that helps diagnose ankylosing spondylitis by checking for a specific antigen.

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    Osteoarthritis

    The most common form of arthritis often associated with aging and characterized by cartilage loss and bone spurs.

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    Gouty Arthritis

    A type of arthritis caused by uric acid crystals in joints, leading to acute inflammation and pain.

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    Tendonitis

    Inflammation of tendons, which may lead to pain and mobility issues, sometimes with calcifications.

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    Bursitis

    Inflammation of the bursa, commonly affecting joints like the shoulder and knee.

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    Anterospondylolisthesis

    A condition where a vertebra slips forward over another, commonly at L5-S1.

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    Spina Bifida Occulta

    A type of spina bifida with no visible abnormalities.

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    Craniosynostosis

    Premature closure of cranial sutures leading to an abnormal head shape.

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    Anencephaly

    Congenital condition where brain and skull don't form, often fatal after birth.

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    Osteomyelitis

    Infection of the bone and bone marrow caused by microorganisms.

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    Common Symptoms of Osteomyelitis

    Dull pain, heat in the affected area, intermittent fever.

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    Tuberculosis in Bones

    Chronic inflammatory disease affecting bones, often hip, knee, spine.

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    Pott's Disease

    Spinal tuberculosis causing vertebrae collapse and potential cord compression.

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    Infectious Arthritis

    Arthritis caused by bacteria entering the joint.

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    Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

    Chronic autoimmune disease affecting synovial tissues and joints.

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    Joint Effusion

    Accumulation of fluid in a joint, seen in various arthropathies.

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    Study Notes

    Skeletal System Overview

    • The skeletal system is composed of 206 bones.
    • It provides support, protection, movement, and blood cell production.
    • It's categorized into axial (80 bones) and appendicular (126 bones) skeletons.
    • Bones are a unique connective tissue with a calcium phosphate matrix.
    • Compact (dense) and cancellous (spongy) bone types exist.
    • Bone marrow, found in medullary canals, contains red marrow (blood cell production) and yellow marrow (mainly fat).
    • Cells, like osteoblasts (bone-forming) and osteoclasts (bone-breaking), maintain bone structure.

    Learning Objectives

    • Describe the skeletal system's structure, from macroscopic to microscopic levels.
    • Explain how to evaluate the quality and accuracy of skeletal X-ray images.
    • Categorize skeletal medical conditions into congenital, inflammatory, arthritic, or neoplastic.
    • Discuss the causes, symptoms, and outcomes of skeletal diseases.
    • Explore various imaging methods to diagnose and treat skeletal disorders.

    Anatomy and Physiology

    • Bone types: Long bones (shaft and ends), short bones, flat bones, and irregular bones.
    • Growth zones: Cartilaginous growth plate (metaphysis) between epiphysis and diaphysis, important in children.
    • Periosteum: Fibrous membrane covering bones, excluding joints, supplying blood and responding to physical stress.
    • Disuse Atrophy: Lack of weight-bearing causing bone decalcification and thinning.
    • Joint types: Fibrous (immovable), cartilaginous (slightly movable), and synovial (freely movable).
    • Synovial joints have cartilage, ligaments, and synovial fluid for lubrication.

    Imaging Considerations

    • Various imaging modalities assess skeletal pathology.
    • Radiography evaluates overall bone structure.
    • MRI provides detailed soft tissue information, especially for tumors in extremities.
    • CT scans aid in assessing bone tissues in detail.
    • Nuclear medicine is used for whole-body analysis, specifically bone metabolic processes and inflammatory/traumatic diseases.

    Radiography

    • Proper orientation and radiographic projection are crucial.
    • Technique selection affects diagnostic quality with adequate penetration.
    • Soft tissue evaluation assesses for muscle atrophy, swelling, calcifications, and foreign bodies.
    • Bone analysis helps identify fractures, dislocations, congenital anomalies, and deformities.

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

    • Provides excellent soft tissue contrast resolution.
    • Preferred for soft tissue tumors in extremities, joint evaluation (knee, shoulder).
    • Improved MRI technology detects musculoskeletal subtleties.
    • Useful for visualizing subtle bone marrow abnormalities.
    • Applicable in trauma medicine with open and short-bore technologies.

    Computed Tomography (CT)

    • Noninvasive procedure used in trauma cases.
    • Useful in identifying fractures, dislocations, joint abnormalities, spinal disorders.
    • Analyzes bone details, trabecular patterns assessing bone and soft tissue involvement in tumors.
    • Helpful in assessing bone mass loss, particularly in vertebral bodies.

    Nuclear Medicine Procedures

    • Bone scan used to analyze bone metabolic reactions in metastatic diseases, trauma, and inflammatory skeletal diseases.
    • PET scanning (18F-NaF, 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose) is used to diagnose, stage and assess metabolic processes in skeletal diseases. (e.g., child abuse, osteomyelitis)

    Congenital Skeletal Anomalies

    • Congenital skeletal anomalies include osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), achondroplasia, and other skeletal dysplasias.
    • Osteogenesis imperfecta, characterized by frequent fractures, is a rare genetic disorder.
    • Achondroplasia, the most common inherited skeletal disorder, leads to dwarfism.

    Hand and Foot Malformations

    • Syndactyly: Failure of fingers or toes to separate, causing webbed appearance.
    • Polydactyly: Presence of extra digits.
    • Clubfoot (Talipes): Congenital malformation of the foot.

    Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH)

    • Malformation of the acetabulum leading to femoral head displacement.
    • Presentation: May be unilateral or bilateral, more common in females.
    • Risk factors include breech position, first child.
    • Diagnosis: Sonography and radiographic measurements.
    • Treatment: Early immobilization via casting or splinting. Untreated cases may result in complications like limb length discrepancy

    Vertebral Anomalies

    • Scoliosis: Lateral curvature of the spine, often convex to the right in the thoracic region, and left in the lumbar region.
    • Structural scoliosis includes vertebral rotation.
    • Non-structural scoliosis has no vertebral rotation.
    • Radiographic assessment involves AP or PA and lateral standing radiographs.
    • Treatment includes bracing or casting and/or surgery for severe curves.
    • Transitional vertebrae are at thoracic and lumbar vertebral level junctions. Present characteristics of both vertebral levels.

    Spina Bifida

    • Incomplete closure of vertebral canal, common in lumbosacral area.
    • Severity varies from no visible abnormality to paralysis.
    • Treatment varies based on extent and severity.

    Cranial Anomalies

    • Craniosynostosis: Premature closure of cranial sutures resulting in abnormal head shape.
    • Anencephaly: Congenital abnormality causing brain and cranial vault failure, often fatal, detected prenatally.

    Inflammatory Diseases

    • Osteomyelitis: Infection of bone and bone marrow from pathogenic microorganisms.
    • Tuberculosis: Chronic inflammatory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, often affects hip, knee, and spine.

    Arthropathies

    • Arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, and tenosynovitis are joint disorders.

    Infectious Arthritis

    • Bacteria entering joints cause rapid onset of pain, swelling, and fever.
    • Joint effusion, narrowing, recalcification, and sclerosis often occur during healing.
    • Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli are common pathogens.

    Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

    • Chronic autoimmune disease affecting synovial tissues and joints.
    • Typically, hand and foot joints are primarily affected.
    • Radiographic signs include soft tissue swelling, osteoporosis, cortical erosion, and joint space narrowing, leading to joint deformity.
    • Diagnosis relies on serologic rheumatoid factor, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reactive protein levels.
    • Treatment includes medications and surgery for severe cases.

    Ankylosing Spondylitis

    • Progressive form of arthritis, mainly in the spine.
    • Common in young men.
    • Symptoms include low back pain, morning stiffness, fatigue.
    • Radiographic features include bilateral sacroiliac joint narrowing, and spinal ligament calcification.
    • Bamboo spine.
    • Diagnosis includes HLA-B27 test.
    • Treatment includes NSAIDs, anti-inflammatory drugs, exercise, and/or surgery.

    Osteoarthritis

    • Most common arthritis type frequently associated with aging.
    • Affects weight-bearing joints (e.g., hips, knees, ankles).
    • Radiographic features - cartilage loss, osteophyte formation, and bone sclerosis.
    • Treatment includes medications, exercise, and/or surgery.

    Gouty Arthritis

    • Metabolic disorder causing uric acid crystal deposits in joints, leading to acute attacks of inflammation and tophi formation.
    • Radiographic findings - erosion with overhanging edges.
    • Treatment - medication for uric acid excretion or inhibition of its production.

    Tendonitis and Tenosynovitis

    • Inflammation of tendons and tendon sheaths, potentially with calcifications in chronic cases.
    • Treatment includes medications, corticosteroid injections, and possibly surgical intervention.

    Bursitis

    • Inflammation of bursae (synovial membrane-lined sacs) in common areas like shoulder, elbow, knee and hip.
    • Treatment includes aspiration, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, injections, and/or surgical removal.

    Ganglion Cyst

    • Cystic swelling connected to a tendon sheath, often occurring in the wrist.
    • Treatment includes aspiration of the cyst with corticosteroid injections or surgical removal.

    Vertebral Column Injuries

    • Causes include direct trauma, hyperextension/flexion injuries, osteoporosis, and metastatic destruction.
    • Radiographic signs may show interruption of smooth continuous lines, resulting from hyperextension, or hyperflexion injuries.
    • Anterospondylolisthesis is anterior slipping of vertebrae commonly occurring at the L5/S1 junction.

    Spondylolysis/Spondylolisthesis

    • Spondylolysis is a cleft or breakage in the vertebral body, often in the superior arch of the fifth lumbar vertebra.
    • Myelography/MRI are often used to evaluate the spinal cord and nerve root for diagnosis.
    • Treatment is usually based on severity.

    Neoplastic Diseases

    • Primary/metastatic tumors.
    • Benign tumor types include Osteoma, osteochondroma, simple unicameral bone cyst (UBC), aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC), osteoid osteoma, and osteoblastoma.
    • Malignant tumor types include osteosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma.
    • Diagnosis involves imaging (CT, MRI), biopsy, and staging assessment.

    Bone Tumor Markers

    • Alkaline phosphatase, osteonectin, osteocalcin, and collagen can be potential bone tumor markers.
    • Radiographs, CT scans, and MRI play significant roles to diagnose.
    • Enneking's System for bone tumor staging in order to stage, define and classify tumors. This includes assessment of histologic grade, local extent, and presence or absence of metastases.

    Common Benign Tumors

    • Osteochondroma, osteoma, endochondroma, simple unicameral bone cyst (UBC), aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC), osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, giant cell tumor (osteoclastoma).

    Malignant Tumors

    • Osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, chondrosarcoma (often accompanied by pain), and giant cell tumor (osteoclastoma).

    Metastatic Bone Cancer

    • Most common malignant tumors are often metastases from carcinomas.
    • Commonly affecting individuals over 40.
    • Principal signs include pain and pathologic fractures.
    • Spine, ribs, sternum, pelvis, skull, and upper ends of femora/humeri are commonly affected.
    • Bone scans, rather than X-rays, are more accurate to detect these.

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