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1
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Cortical thickening
Osteoporosis circumscripta
Spiculated periosteal reacion
Larger hat size
Cotton wool appearance
A

Paget’s

2
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Swiss cheese appearance

Grossly unequal size holes

A

Lytic mets

3
Q

Rain drop skull
Holes similar in size
Punched out lesions

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Multiple myeloma - mm

4
Q

Enlarged sella turcica - larger than eraser head - possible pituitary adenoma
Pituitary tumor

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Acromegaly

5
Q

Case management acromegaly

A

Refer to endocrinologist

6
Q

Lab acromegaly

A

Somatotropin (growth hormone)

7
Q

Hair on end appearance
H shaped vertebrae in spine - collapse of vasculature
Shreds cappillaries
African or african american in nature

A

Sickle cell anemia

8
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Cooley’s anemia

Mediterranean anemia - people of mediterraean descent

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Thalessemia

9
Q

Hereditary disorder of hemoglobin synthesis (microcytic hypochromic anemia)

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Thalessemia

10
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Erlenmeyer flask deforimty - widened epiphysis, thinner diaphysis

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Thalessemia

11
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Hair on end appearance in skull

Erlenmeyer flask deformity

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Thalessemia

12
Q

Females 30-50

Overactivity of parathyroid gland causes calcium up in the blood and phosphorus down

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Hyperparathyroidism

13
Q

HPT

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Hyperparathyroidism

14
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Increased alkaline phosphatase
Renal calculi
Browns tumors
Salt and pepper skull
Rugger jersey spine
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HPT

15
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Metabolic

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All bones

16
Q

central geographic osteopenia in bones

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Brown tumors

17
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Hereditary
Absence of marrow
Anemia
Hepatosplenomegaly

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Osteopetrosis

18
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Bone within a bone (early)
Sandwich vertebrae (late)
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Osteopetrosis