Dysplasias Flashcards
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Abnormal endochondral bone growth Rhizomelic dwarfism (humerus, femur) Bullet-nosed vertebrae Champagne glass pelvic Horizontal acetabular roof Short femoral necks Trident hand (short proximal and middle phalanges) Increased incidence- Madelung deformity Horizontal sacrum Short and thick diaphyses Brachycephaly V-shaped distal femoral growth plate.
Complications include:
Small foramen magnum(stenosis)
Hydrocephalus (ventriculoperitoneal shunt)
Spinal stenosis/Decreased interpedicular distance
Trefoil spinal canal on axial imaging
Neurological complications: ataxia, incontinence and depressed respiration. Chiari malformations
Achondroplasia
A separate condition that appears in childhood and is similar to achondroplasia but is less severe including small stature, lumbar lordosis, bowlegs, narrow interpediculate distance and posterior VB concavity.
Similar pelvic findings
* Long fibulae and prominent ulnar styloid processes *
Hypochondroplasia
Biconvex vertebral bodies w/ an anterior tongue-like appearance seen centrally - Hallmark finding
Delayed ossification: femur heads, troachanters
Sloped acetabulum w/ spiked appearance
Hypoplastic ilia but eventually normalize.
Hip alignment persists (coxa vara).
Hypermobility of all joints except elbow.
Ligamentous laxity
2nd year of life or later.
Autosomal dominant, mutation in COMP gene (similar to MED, but more severe clinical and radiographic)
Mild to moderate scoliosis develops in 50%
Cervical instability d/t dens defect
Neurologic complications 28% → numbness or tingling of the limbs
Pseudoachondroplasia
Windswept deformity, abnormal valgus deformity in one knee associated with varus deformity in the other. Commonly seen in young children in certain parts of Africa and belongs to which dysplasia
Pseudoachondroplasia
Radiographic study a 3 year old male demonstrates:
hypoplastic capital femoral epiphyses
broad short femoral necks
coxa vara
horizontal acetabular roof and absent epiphyseal centers of os pubis and greater trochanter.
Lesions are bilateral and symmetrical, which is an important distinguishing feature from Perthes disease, which is characteristically asymmetrical and occasionally unilateral
Pseudoachondroplasia
Epiphyseal centers undergo mucoid degeneration and hypervascularity is prominent. These factors lead to fragmentation of epiphysis.
These changes represent the pathophysiology of which dysplasia?
Chonrodysplasia punctata
The X-linked recessive (rhizomelic) form of CDP predominates in males and is characterized by a triad that consists of
asymmetric limb shortening
mental retardation
small distal phalanges.
In sporadic cases of CDP what entities are the most likely etiologies?
Warfarin toxicity
Anticonvulsant drugs
Coumadin
Note children born to mothers w/ SLE are included
Hallmark finding for CDP
Stippled epiphysis in the 1st year of life.
Recessive or Conradi Hunermann (dominant) CDP type?
Epiphyseal stippling noted primarily in the hips, shoulders, knees, and wrists.
Symmetric shortening of the limbs, particularly proximally and more frequently in the upper extremities.
The metaphyses are often flared, and the long bones are bowed. In most cases there are coronal clefts of the vertebrae, but stippling of the spine is usually absent and spinal deformity is not as severe
CDP Lethal Recessive Type
Y&R, pg. 729.
Recessive or Conradi Hunermann (dominant) CDP type?
the stippling at the ends of long bones and in short tubular bones may be mild to severe, with occasional asymmetric limb shortening.
metaphyses and diaphyses are normal.
Conradi Hunermann (dominant) Y&R, pg. 729.
Stippled epiphyses (proximally ulnar, radius) in a 2 day old male patient w/ hypoplasia of the distal phalanges of the fingers. No skin manifestations (ichthyosis) were present.
These findings are most consistent with which type of CDP
Brachytelephalangic CDP
The following description characteristically describe pelvic changes in Metatrophic dwarfism:
- hypoplastic ilia with narrow sacrosciatic notches
- horizontal acetabular roofs with small associated
notches superior to their lateral borders - prominent crescentic flaring of iliac wings
(Radiopedia)
Halberd-shaped pelvis
Note, there is also tail like soft tissue fold over the sacrum seen in this dysplasia
Short extremities with metaphyseal widening resembling a trumpet or dumbbell (hyperplasia of prox femoral metaphyses)
Large trochanters resembling a battle ax
Delayed appearance of epiphyses.
VB changes → rectangular or diamond shaped, disc spaces are large.
Short ilia, crescent shaped iliac crests, flat acetabular roofs.
Delayed ossification of the carpals and tarsals.
Irregular contours of talus and calcaneus
Cervical spine - platyspondyly, sometimes absent or hypolplasia of the dens.
Thoracic and Lumbar spine - In neonates severe platyspondyly “paper thin vertebrae”, coronal clefts, wide disc spaces.
Diamond shape vb, or a hump superiorly only, and irregular ossification of endplates.
Later in life, platyspondyly w/ anterior wedging
(Spranger, pg. 207)
Diaphyseal constriction and widely flared metaphyses.
Lower position of ASIS than normal.
Metatrophic dwarfism
Short-limbed dwarfism accompanied by contractures of many joints, foot deformities, and progressive scoliosis and kyphosis.
Higher incidence in those from Finland.
Pronounced hitchhiker thumb frequent feature and has marked shortening of the first metacarpal
Crescent shaped flattened epiphyses, short and wide metaphyses, short broad metatarsals and metacarpals with inward and downward twisting (diastrophism), clubfoot.
Foot anomalies are seen in 93% of cases including metatarsus valgus, metatarsus adductus, or equinovarus. Femoral head findings similar to severe LCP.
First metacarpal is usually oval shaped and is the most affected.
Carpal bones tend to have accessory ossification centers.
Severe cervical spine kyphosis seen often. Narrowed interpediculate distance has been described and rarely atlantoaxial instability.
Hemorrhagic cystic lesion near ear in newborns.
Diastrophic dwarfism
MC lethal type of dwarfism
Severe micromelia and platyspondyly.
Telephone receiver femora (metaphyseal flaring w/ osseous bowing and widening)
Cloverleaf skull seen in both types, I and II more often in II. While Type I is typically telephone reciever femur.
Usually stillborn or die shortly after birth d/t to hypoplastic lungs
Thanatophoric dwarfism
dysplastic teeth, short ribs, post-axial polydactyly
cleft palate, fingernail dysplasia (absent or hypoplastic) atrial septal defects, renal abnormalities
capitohamate coalition. extra carpal bones,
cone shaped epiphyses
enlargement of proximal ulna and distal radius (drumstick appearance).
Anterior dislocation of radial heads
Wide and hypoplastic lateral tibial plateau; upper tibial epiphysis displaced too far medially (causing genu valgum), medial tibial diaphyseal exostosis, fibular shortening.
Normal skull and spine. Early death due to cardiac or pulmonary complications.
Chondroectodermal dysplasia
Ellis-van Creveld syndrome
constricted/narrow chest and may die from pulmonary hypoplasia.
Asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia
aka Jeune syndrome
aka Thoracic-pelvic-phalangeal dystrophy
Survivors die from progressive renal failure, however hepatic fibrosis, pancreatic fibrosis, retinal degeneration, Hirschsprung dz, are often comorbidities in this lethal dysplasia aka thoracic-pelvic-phalangeal dystrophy
Asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia
aka
Jeune syndrome
Post-axial polydactyly refers to polydactyly where the additional digit is on the_______ of the hand, or lateral to the 5th toe
ulnar margin of the hand
Seen in both EVC and Jeune dysplasias
Short horizontal ribs, with wide and irregular costochondral junctions.
High handlebar shaped clavicles are possible.
Short iliac, pubic, and ischial bones with rounded ilia laterally and flat acetabular roofs with downward oriented spikes, which are most commonly medial and lateral, and occasionally central (if all 3 then called trident acetabulum). With increasing age the pelvis normalizes but the proximal femoral metaphysis progresses with irregularity.
Asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia
aka
Jeune syndrome
SED Congenita or SED Tarda
Autosomal recessive, rhizomelic dwarfism
Short trunk, respiratory and visual complications (myopia)
Imaging
Dec height of vb’s, pear-shaped vb in childhood Kyphoscoliosis, accentuated kyphosis and lordosis, Pectus carinatum, delayed ossification w/ resultant epiphyseal irregularities.
Hypoplasia of the odontoid with atlantoaxial instability
Other clinicial assoications: ocular hypertelorism, cleft palate, hearing loss, myopia, retinal detachment
SED Congenita
SED Congenita or SED Tarda
Milder, X-linked recessive form seen only in males
Rare lethal form Also termed hypochondrogenesis
Imaging
Heaped-up VB, platyspondyly, disc space narrowing
Shoulder, hip, knee most severely affected
Mimics Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in hip
SED Tarda