Title: BONE PATHOLOGY
1BONE PATHOLOGY
2The Skeletal System
- Parts of the skeletal system
- Bones (skeleton)
- Joints
- Cartilages
- Ligaments (bone to bone)(tendonbone to muscle)
- Divided into two divisions
- Axial skeleton
- Appendicular skeleton limbs and girdle
- The skeleton has 206 bones
3Functions of Bones
- Support of the body
- Protection of soft organs
- Movement due to attached skeletal muscles
- Storage of minerals and fats
- Blood cell formation
4Normal bone
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6Types of Bone Cells
- Osteocytes
- Mature bone cells
- Osteoblasts
- Bone-forming cells
- Osteoclasts
- Bone-destroying cells
- Break down bone matrix for remodeling and release
of calcium - Bone remodeling is a process in which both
osteoblasts and osteoclasts participate
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8Bone Fractures
- A break in a bone
- Types of bone fractures
- Closed (simple) fracture break that does not
penetrate the skin - Open (compound) fracture broken bone penetrates
through the skin - Bone fractures are treated by reduction and
immobilization - Realignment of the bone
9Stages in the Healing of a Bone Fracture
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10Stages in the Healing of a Bone Fracture
- 1-Haematoma formation
- 2-Fibrocartilage callus formation
- 3-Boney callus formation
- 4-Bone remodelling
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11Classification of Bone Pathology
- Infectious Diseases of Bone
- Developmental Disorders of Bone
- Metabolic Disorders of Bone
- Avascular Bone Necrosis (Osteonecrosis)
- Pagets Disease of Bone
- Tumors of Bone
12Infectious Diseases of Bone
- Osteomyelitis
- Potts Disease
13OSTEOMYELITIS
- Definition
- This is inflammation of bone and bone marrow
Classification
- Non- bacterial osteomyelitis
- Viral osteomyelitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Radiation osteomyelitis
14- Bacterial osteomyelitis
- Acute suppurative osteomyelitis
- Acute haematogenous osteomyelitis
- Acute non-haematogenous osteomyelitis
- Chronic osteomyelitis
- Chronic non-specific osteomyelitis
- Chronic specific osteomyelitis ( TB Syphilis)
15ACUTE HAEMATOGENIUS OSTEOMYELITIS
- Definition Acute osteomyelitis is an acute
inflammation of bone caused by an infecting
organism
- Haematogenous osteomyelitis is predominantly seen
in children and involves the highly vascular long
bones especially those of the lower limbs. - In adults, haematogenous spread is more common to
the lumbar vertebral bodies than elsewhere.
16Pathogenesis
- The spread of infection is usually haematogenous.
- 1-Among children the metaphysis of the long
bones is the most common site, where blood flow
slows in the sinusoids, allowing bacteria to
adhere to the vascular membranes. - 2-Local trauma with skin penetration and seeding
of organisms is another pathway. - 3-Localized trauma without skin penetration to
the bone causing haematoma, vascular obstruction
in the metaphyseal region and bacteraemia at
around the same time result in infection.
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18Metapheseal blood sinsoids
19Stages of disease
- 1-Inflammation Initial inflammation with
vascular congestion and increased intra-osseous
pressure. - 2-Suppuration Pus within the bones forces its
way through the Haversian system and forms a
subperiosteal abscess in 2-3 days. -
20- 3-Sequestrum Vascular obstruction and infective
thrombus decrease or obstruct the periosteal and
endosteal blood supply, causing bone necrosis and
sequestrum formation in approximately 7 days. - 4-Involucrum This is new bone formation from the
stripped surface of periosteum. - 5-Resolution or progression to complications
With antibiotics and surgical treatment early in
the course of disease, osteomyelitis resolves
without any complications.
21MP of acute osteomyelitis
Inflammation of bone
22Acute osteomyelitis
23Complications of osteomyelitis
- Pathological fracture
- Spread of infection eg. Arthritis (joint
inflammation), myositis (muscle inflammation) or
neuritis (nerve inflammation) - Blood spread causing toxaemia septicaemia
- Chronic suppurative osteomyelitis including
sequestrum formation and skin sinus formation - Damage to the growth plate causing subsequent
growth deformity
24Pott's disease
- Pott's disease is a presentation of extra
pulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a
kind of tuberculous arthritis of the
intervertebral joints. - The lower thoracic and upper lumbar vertebrae are
the areas of the spine most often affected.
25Potts Disease
26Tuberculosis of the spine in an Egyptian mummy
27Clinical presentation
- Back pain
- Fever
- Night sweating
- Anorexia
- Weight loss
- Spinal mass, sometimes associated with numbness,
paraesthesia or muscle weakness of the legs
28Diagnosis
- Blood tests elevated erythrocyte sedimentation
rate (ESR) - Tuberculin skin test
- Radiographs of the spine
- Bone scan
- CT of the spine
- Bone biopsy
- MRI
29Potts Disease X-ray
Potts Disease MRI
30Complications
- Vertebral collapse resulting in kyphosis
- Spinal cord compression
- Sinus formation
- Paraplegia (called Pott's paraplegia)
31Tuberculous in long bones
- Commonly around the knee, affects metaphysis and
epiphysis, rarely diaphysis - Well-defined lytic area
32Tuberculous arthritis
- The hip and knee are the
- most commonly affected
- peripheral joints.
- Characterized by joint space
- narrowing and erosions which
- may lead to extensive destruction
- of the articular cortex.
33HEREDITARY BONE DISORDERS
- Achondroplasia
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- osteopetrosis
34Achondroplasia
- Clinically
- Long bones are short and thick ? short
extremities ? dwarfism - Cranial and vertebral bone spared ? relatively
large head and trunk - Normal intelligence, life span and reproductive
ability
35Achondroplasia
36Osteogenesis imperfecta
- 1-Generalized osteopenia brittle
- bones, resulting in recurrent
- fractures and skeletal deformity
- 2-Most patients have an
- abnormally thin sclera with
- blue hue
Abnormally thin sclera with blue hue
37- Laxity of joint ligments leads to hypermobilty
- Involvement of the bones of the inner and middle
ear produces deafness - Some patients have dentinogenesis imperfecta
small, fragile and discolored teeth due to
deficiency of dentin - The skin may be abnormally thin and the skin is
susceptible to easy bruising
38Laxity of joint ligaments
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Brittle bones
39Dentinogenesis imperfecta
40Osteopetrosis
- Marble bone
- Hereditary defect leading to thick sclerotic
bones - Pathology
- -Increased bone density and thickening of bone
cortex - -The thickened bones are brittle and fracture
easily
41- X-ray findings
- Symmetrically generalized osteosclerosis
- Long bones may have broadened metaphyses,
resulting in an "Erlenmeyer flask" deformity
42Osteopetrosis X-ray findings
- Symmetrically generalized
- Osteosclerosis
- Long bones may have broadened
- metaphyses, resulting in an
- "Erlenmeyer flask" deformity
Osteosclerosis
Erlenmeyer flask shaped deformity
43Metabolic Diseases of Bone
44Osteoporosis
- Refers to increased porosity of skeleton.
- Osteoporotic bones
- Thin and fragile and are susceptible to fracture.
- Occurs due to
- Loss of organic bone matrix and minerals.
- Resulting in
- Decreased bone mass and density.
- Decreased thickness of cortical and trabecular
bone.
45Osteoporotic vertebral body
Normal Vertebral body
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47Types of Osteoporosis
- Localized e.g. disuse of a limb
- Generalized involves entire skeleton.
- Primary
- Old age (Senile)
- Estrogen deficiency (postmenopausal)
- Secondary (due to underlying disease)
- Cushings disease (Hypercortisolism)
- Drugs (Heparin and Steroids)
48Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
- Due to estrogen deficiency
- Estrogen deficiency ? increased resorption of
bone by osteoclasts and decreased formation of
bone by osteoblasts.
49Genetic factors
Nutrition
Peak bone mass
Physical activity
- Menopause
- ? estrogen
- ? osteoclast activity
- Aging
- ? activity of osteoblasts
- ? physical activity
Osteoporosis
50Clinical findings
- Bone pain
- Weight bearing bones predisposed to
- Compression of vertebral bodies (most common)
- Colles fracture of distal radius.
- Fracture femoral neck.
- Loss of height and kyphosis
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52- Diagnosis
- Dual energy X ray absorptiometry (DEXA) to
evaluate bone density.
53Osteonecrosis (Avascular Necrosis)
54Osteonecrosis (Avascular necrosis)
- Ischemic infarction of bone bone marrow.
- Causes of ischemia
- Vascular interruption (fracture)
- Corticosteroids (most common)
- Sickle cell disease
- Common sites include
- Femoral head
- Scaphoid bone.
55Osteonecrosis
56Osteonecrosis
57PAGETS DISEASE
58- Definition
- Localized disorder of bone
- Due to Excessive bone resorption followed by
disorganized bone replacement - Resulting in Thickened but weak bone that is
susceptible to deformity and fracture
59- Stages of paget disease
- Osteolytic osteoclastic activity predominates
- Mixed ostelytic-osteoblastic
- Osteosclerotic osteoblastic activity
predominates " burnout stage"
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61- Etiology
- Possible slow virus infection
- Possible genetic predisposition
62- Clinical features
- Asymptomatic in most cases
- Bone pain and deformities
- Fractures
- Warmth of overlying skin due to hypervascularity
63- Forms of involvement
- Monosteotic (15) involving one bone
- Polyosteotic (85) involving multiple bones
- Common sites include the skull, pelvis, femur and
vertebrae
64PATHOLOGY
- Microscopically
- Haphazard arrangement of cement lines, creating a
mosaic pattern - Skull involvement
- Increase head size
- Foramina narrowing causes impingement of cranial
nerves, often leading to deafness - Involvement of facial bones may produce a
lion-like facies
65- X-rays
- Bone enlargement with lytic and sclerotic areas
- Lab investigation
- Highly elevated serum alkaline phosphatase
- Complication
- Osteosarcoma
- Others sarcomas
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67Osteolytic changes of the skull
68Mosaic pattern of lamellar bone
69BONE TUMORS
70Classification of benign tumors of bone
- Osteoma
- Osteoid osteoma
- Osteoblastoma
- Osteochondroma
- Osteochondromatosis
- Enchondroma
71Osteoma
- Definition
- Benign neoplasm that frequently involves the
skull and facial bones
72Osteoid osteoma
- Definition
- Benign, painful growth of the diaphysis of a long
bone, often the tibia or femur - Clinically
- Malesgt females
- Age 5-25 years
- Pain that is worse at night and relieved by
aspirin - X-ray
- Central radiolucency surrounded by sclerotic rim
73Osteoid osteoma
74Osteoblastoma
- Similar to an osteoid osteoma but is larger
(gt2cm) and often involves vertebrae
75Osteochondroma (Exostosis)
- Definition
- Benign boney capped with cartilage that
originates from epiphyseal growth plate - Clinical presentation
- Adolescent males
- Firm solitary growths at the end of the long
bones - They may be asymptomatic or it causes pain,
deformity or it can undergo malignant
transformation (rare)
76Osteochondroma
77Osteochondromatosis
- Multiple hereditary exostosis in which there is
multiple symmetric osteochondromas
78Enchondroma
- Definition
- Benign cartilaginous growth within the medullary
cavity of bone, usually involving the hands and
feet - Typically solitary and asymptomatic and require
no treatment
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