Name: Nicholas Mottram

Theme: Bone Disease

 

OPTION LIST

 

A

Osteosarcoma

I

Metastases

B

Osteitis

J

Simple bone cyst

C

Ewing’s tumour

K

Osteoarthritis

D

Osteoid osteoma

L

Trauma

E

Osteoporosis

M

Fibrous dysplasia

F

Rheumatoid arthritis

N

Echondroma

G

Osteochondroma

O

Chondrosarcoma

H

Osteoclastoma

P

 

 

 

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1. An 18 year old student presents to his GP with focal pain in his left fore-arm which is tender to touch and worsens at night. The pain is relieved with aspirin. An X-ray shows a 1cm are of radio-lucency in the tibia surrounded by dense bone.

 

2. A 14 year old boy complains to you of a painless lump on his left thigh, just above the knee which is slowly growing. Your past medical history reveals that he fractured his femur in the same location several years before.

 

3. A 15 year old girl shows you a small lump on her upper arm on routine examination. She says the lump has been present for a couple of years and has slowly moved down, away from her shoulder.

 

4. A 50 year old lady presents with pain in her jaw. She suffers from Paget’s disease. A ‘sunburst’ appearance is seen on X-ray along with a lifted periosteum (Codman’s triangle).

 

5. An 8 year old boy is brought to his GP by his parents with pain in his hips and a fever. Blood results demonstrate a raised ESR and biopsy histology shows droplets of glycogen in the cytoplasm of small round cells in the pelvic bones.

 

ANSWERS

1. D

2. G

3. J

4. A

5. C