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1
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What is an autosomal dominant disorder that produces skeletal fragility due to abnormal Alpha chains of Type 1 collagen?

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Osteogenesis imperfecta- brittle bone disease, blue sclera

2
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What is the MC form of dwarfism?

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Achondroplasia- inhibits epiphyseal chondrocyte growth

3
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Why does osteopetrosis produce excessively dense bone?

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Inhibited osteoclasts

Sclerosis

4
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What is the key feature of osteopetrosis?

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Erlenmeyer flask deformity

5
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What is dowagers hump?

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Vertebral bone fractures

6
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What is most likely to produce Dowagers hump and femoral neck fractures?

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Osteoporosis

7
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What are the 3 causes of Ivory White Vertebra?

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Paget’s- osteitis deformans
Lymphoma
Prostate cancer that has metastasized to spine

8
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Breast cancer that metastasizes to the spine is most likely to be?

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Osteolytic

9
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What are the 2 MC causes of hyperparathyroidism?

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1 adenoma

2 renal failure

10
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What are avascular necrosis aka?

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Ischemic necrosis
Aseptic necrosis
Osteochondrosis

11
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What are 2 types of avasacular necrosis both seen in kids?

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Osgood schlatters- tibial tuberosity 13-16

Legg calve Perthes- femoral head 4-8

12
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What is the MC primary bone cancer?

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Osteosarcoma

13
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What is the MC plasma cell cancer discovered in bone?

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Multiple myeloma

14
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What are the 4 MC primary bone tumors?

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Osteosarcoma
Multiple Myeloma
Chondrosarcoma
Ewing sarcoma

15
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What are the 2 epiphyseal tumors?

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Giant cell- old

Chondroblastoma- young

16
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What are the 2 diaphyseal tumors?

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Ewing-young

Multiple myeloma-old

17
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What is plasma cell cytoma?

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Multiple myeloma

18
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What are the key features of MM?

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Reversed A/G ratio on electrophoresis has M-spike
Lytic
Diaphyseal
Bence Jones proteinuria 
NO periosteal reaction
19
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Which primary bone tumor has a periosteal reaction?

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Ewing sarcoma

20
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What is a cancer of bone that can be both benign and malignant?

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Giant cell

21
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What is tumor of glandular tissue?

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Adenoma

22
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What tumor is characterized by nocturnal pain, relieved by aspirin and radiolucent nidus?

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Osteoid osteoma

23
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What malignant tumor produces a Codman triangle and a sunburst periosteal reaction?

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Osteosarcoma

24
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What is a common malignant tumor of Li?

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Adenocarcinoma

25
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What compresses nerves and produces cafe au lait spots?

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Neurofibromatosis- chromosome 17

26
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What is Ollier disease?

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Multiple enchondromas in hands

27
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What is a bone cancer that affects middle aged with a stippled or popcorn appearance on x-ray. Can also invade joints, usually hips or pelvis?

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Chondrosarcoma

28
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What is McCune Albright syndrome

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Fibrous dysplasia, cafe au lait spots and endocrine hyper-function

29
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What are the 2 conditions that characteristically cause cafe au lait spots?

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Neurofibromatosis

McCune Albright

30
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What is osteopetrosis aka?

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Albers-Schonberg disease; stone bone, sandwich vertebra

31
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What is pheochromocytoma?

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Benign tumor of adrenal or sympathetics

32
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What is a rhabdomyoma?

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Benign tumor of skeletal muscle

33
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What is a malignant tumor of astrocytes?

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Glioblastoma

34
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What is a carcinoma of the ovary, from GI?

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Krunkenberg’s Tumor

35
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What is Grawitz tumor?

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Renal adenocarcinoma

36
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Seminoma

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Tumor of testes

37
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S/S of osteitis deformans

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Older males, bone deformities, mosaic layers, bowing tibia, pseudofractures
Osteoblastic-osteoclastic activity
IVORY WHITE VERTEBRAE and increased ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE

38
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Neurofibromatosis aka

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Von Recklinghausens disease- autosomal dominant chromosome 17

39
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Fibrous dysplasia

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Bone thinning and lesions and growths in bone

Seen in McCune Albright and Neurofibromatosis

40
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Staph infection in bone

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Osteomyelitis

41
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Pott’s disease increased

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Kyphoses= Gibbus deformity

42
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MC benign tumor of vertebra

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Hemangioma

43
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MC benign bone tumor

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Osteochondroma

44
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Osteoarthritis aka

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Degenerative Joint Disease- make bone

45
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S/S osteoarthritis

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OSTEOBLASTIC
Subchondral sclerosis
Bony eburnation
Narrowing joint spaces

46
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RA + pneumonia

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Caplans

47
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Long standing RA

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Felty’s- RA + splenomegaly + neutropenia

48
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Juvenile RA

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Stills

49
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What does RA usually destroy

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MCP joints- symmetrical

50
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Pannus formation(granulation tissue), ulnar deviation, bony ankylosis, swan neck or boutonnière deformity(deformed finger joint) are characteristic of?

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RA

51
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Ankylosis

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Stiffening or immobility of joint dt fusion of bone

52
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What is a reactive arthritis from STD usually chlamydia that affects feet, spine, Conjunctivits, urethritis?

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Reiter’s

Can’t See Can’t Pee Can’t Dance With Me

53
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Herberden’s nodes

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Osteoarthritis DIP joints

54
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Bouchard’s nodes

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OA or RA of PIP joints

55
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Excessive thoracic kyphosis in teens from vertebral end-plate abnormalities

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Scheuermanns Disease

56
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Marie Strumpell- bilateral SI joint pain, young adult males + HLA-B27

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Ankylosing spondylitis

57
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Synovial cyst in popliteal fossa

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Baker’s cyst

58
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Over 50 ALL calcification, cervical pain, reduced ROM; associated with diabetes mellitus

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Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis
Forestiers Disease
DISH

59
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Neurogenic joint aka

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Charcot joint- posterior column disease

60
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What are the 6 Ds of charcot joint disease?

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Debris
Dysfunction
Deformity
Dislocation
Destructive
Distention
Disease
61
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Diabetes mellitus joint dysfunction in feet and Syringomyelia in shoulder are associated with

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Charcot/neurogenic joint disease

62
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Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies

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Psoriatic arthritis
Enteropathic arthritis
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Reactive arthritis (reiters)

Rheumatoid factor Rf negative

63
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Myositis ossificans

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Severe calcification of skeletal muscle (dystrophic calcification)

64
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What are the 2 x-linked autosomal recessive muscular dystropies?

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Erb-Duchenne- MC more severe, Gower sign lethal; pseudohypertrophy of calf muscles 0-12

Becker- less common and less severe, slower 10-70

65
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What are the 2 autosomal dominant dystrophies?

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Facioscapulohumeral- mild, kids

Myotonic-slow, adults

66
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Guillain Barre aka

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Acute demyelinating polyneuritis

Landrys paralysis

67
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Acute polyneuropathy, polyradiculopathy and ASCENDING paralysis

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Guillain barre- acute demyelinating polyneuritis

68
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Myasthenia gravis aka

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Erb-Goldflams- myoneural jx, decreased acetylcholine receptors, CN, ptosis and diplopia

69
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Which muscle disorder is common with SCC of the lungs?

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Lambert Eaton- increased contractions

70
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Calf muscle atrophy, demyelination, onset in childhood?

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Charcot-Marie tooth

71
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McArdle’s

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30-40 myalgia, fatigue, cramps, weakness in exercising muscles