Bone
Bone is a scaffold it bears weight and occasionally gets infected.
Tumours often spread to bone and occasionally arise in bone. Bone tumours are dealt with in the bone tumours article.
Normal bone
Bone anatomy
- Epiphysis = rounded end of the bone.
- Metaphysis = between epiphysis and diaphysis; contains epiphyseal plate - site of growth in childhood.
- Diaphysis = shaft, mid-portion, contains bone marrow.
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Bone Matrix
Two types (based on arrangement of collagen):
- Woven.
- Always abnormal in adults.
- Collagen arranged haphazardly - mechanically weak.
- Lamellar.
- Collagen organized in layers (lamellae).
Woven vs. lamellar:
- Easiest way to differentiate: polarize; lamellar bone has well-defined layers.
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Bone cells
- Osteocytes.
- Sit in lacunae.
- Empty lacunae = necrotic bone.
- Sit in lacunae.
- Osteoblasts.
- Make bone.
- Osteoclasts.
- Destroy bone.
- Multinucleated.
Memory device: 'b' before 'c'.
Bone marrow
Main article: Haematopoiesis
- One of two primary lymphoid organs - the other one is the thymus.[2]
- Fat content (%) ~= age in years.[3]
- e.g. 60 year old will have 60% fatty replacement.
- One should see three cell lines:[4]
- Erythroid (red cells).
- Myeloid (white blood cells).
- Megakaryocytic (platelets).
Note: Lymphocytes are considered separately and typically spared in bone marrow failure.[5]
Identifying the lines:[6]
- Megakaryocytes:
- Big cells ~ 3x the size of a RBC.
- Normoblasts (RBC precursors):
- Hyperchromatic, i.e. blue, nucleus.
- Myeloid line:
- Granules.
- Reniform nucleus, i.e. kidney bean shaped nucleus.
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Organization
- Mature hematopoeitic cells at the centre (distant from bone).
- Immature hematopoeitic cells adjacent to the bone.
Note:
- Immediately adjacent to the bone (paratrabecular)... is where follicular lymphoma is classically found.[7]
Benign variants
Hyperostosis frontalis interna
- Extra-thick frontal bone.[8]
- No clinical significance -- just has to be recognized as a "nothing".
Infections
Acute osteomyelitis
General
Pathophysiology/entry:
- Hematogenous - often in children.
- Direct entry (skin defect) - adults with diabetes.
Most common organism:
- Staphylococcus aureus.[9]
Risk factors:[9]
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Peripheral vascular disease.
Microscopic
Features:
- PMNs.
- Micro-organisms - esp. cocci.
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Stains
Chronic osteomyelitis
General
Risk factors:[9]
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Peripheral vascular disease.
Microscopic
Features:
- Plasma cells - key feature.
- May be sterile, i.e. no organisms.
- +/-Fibrosis.
- +/-Necrotic bone - bone with empty lacunae.
- +/-Amyloid.
- ~10% of patients in one series.[10]
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Bone tumours
Main article: Bone tumours
This is a big topic. It is dealt with in a separate article.
The bone tumour article covers tumour mimics, e.g. brown cell tumour.
Fractures
Main article: Bone fractures
This is dealt with in the forensic pathology article.
Others
The following is a collection of stuff that doesn't really fit in another category or is just weird.
A general DDx for cystic bone lesions is found on radipedia.com.[11]
Osteoarthritis
Main article: Osteoarthritis
This keeps orthopaedic surgeons busy.
Aneurysmal bone cyst
- Abbreviated ABC.
- Also see giant cell reparative granuloma (AKA solid aneurysmal bone cyst).
General
Features:[12]
- Benign.
- May grow rapidly.
- Osteolysis -> cystic space -> filled with blood.
- Relatively common; in children second only to osteosarcoma.[13]
Gross/radiologic
Features:[14]
- Air-fluid levels (radiology).
- Usually metaphysis of long bones, but uncommonly the femur.
- May have an "aggressive" appearance, i.e. erode bone.
Microscopic
Features:[12]
- Bony trabeculae or osteoid tissue.
- Osteoclast giant cells.
- Multi-nucleated giant-cells with round randomly arranged nuclei.
- Benign spindle cells (fibroblasts) - surround bone/adjacent to the giant cells - important.
- Blood +/- surrounded by giant cells.
DDx:
- Giant cell tumour of bone - the nuclei of the cells surrounding the giant cells are similar to those in the giant cells (round nuclei).
- Telangiectatic osteosarcoma.
- Other giant cell lesions.
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Myositis ossificans
General
Epidemiology:
- Young people.
- History of trauma - typically.
- Extremities - digits (fingers, toes).
Notes:
- Histologically "worrisome" (for malignancy) - due to high cellularity.[15]
Microscopic
Features:[15]
- High cellularity.
- Low mitotic activity.
- No atypical mitoses.
- No hyperchromasia.
Other features:[16]
- Low power diagnosis:
- Lesion is well-circumscribed.
- Normal muscle is adjacent to the lesion - key feature.
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Paget disease of the bone
General
- Benign - unlike Paget disease of the breast.
- Afflicts ~ 3% of population > 55 years old.[17]
- Leading cause of secondary osteosarcoma.
- Uncommonly associated with giant cell tumour of bone.[18][19]
- Diagnosis based on radiology.[17]
- Genetic component - several genes implicated[20] including TNFRSF11A (AKA PDB2)[21] and PDB4.[22]
Clinical
Presentation:[17]
- Fracture.
- Bone pain.
- Bony deformity.
- Deafness.
- Incidental finding - radiologic or biochemical.
Serology:
- Elevated ALP.
Clinical features - mnemonic PANICS:[23]
- Pain (bone).
- Arthralgia and ALP elevated.
- Nerve compression - deafness.
- Increased bone density.
- Cardiac failure (high output) - due to AVM formation in bone.
- Sunburst skull on X-ray.
Stage
Classically divided into three phases:[24][25]
- Lytic (predominantly osteoclasts).
- Mixed lytic (osteoclastic) and blastic (osteoblastic).
- Sclerotic (burned-out).
Microscopic
Features:[24]
- Bone matrix has jigsaw-puzzle like pattern.
- Jigsaw-puzzle pieces each ~ 100-500 micrometres in size (largest dimension).
- Increased osteoclast activity.
- Osteoclast = macrophage that reabsorbs bone matrix.
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Fibrous dysplasia
- AKA osteitis fibrosa.
General
Classification:
- Monostotic - one bone involved, ~80% of cases.
- Polyostotic - several bones involved, ~20% of cases.
- May be associated with McCune-Albright syndrome.
Microscopic
Features:[26]
- Woven bone with odd irregular shapes - key feature.
- Described as "chinese characters".[27]
- Fibrous tissue around bone.
Notes:
- No osteoblastic rimming.
DDx:
- Desmoplastic fibroma - has lamellar bone.
- Low grade fibrosarcoma.
- Low-grade central osteosarcoma.[28]
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Desmoplastic fibroma
- Not to be confused with desmoplastic fibroblastoma.
General
- Rare.
Microscopic
Features:[29]
- Lamellar bone.
- Fibrotic marrow space with:
- Collagen.
- Low cellularity.
- Spindle cells without significant atypia.
DDx:
- Fibrous dysplasia - has woven bone.
- Low grade fibrosarcoma.
Gaucher disease
Main article: Gaucher disease
General
- May present as a fracture.
Microscopic
- Macrophages in the marrow space with a "crumpled tissue paper" appearance.
Langerhans cell histiocytosis of bone
- AKA eosinophilic granuloma of bone.
Main article: Langerhans cell histiocytosis
General
- Rare.
- Children.
Microscopic
Features:
- Eosinophils.
- Cerebriform and/or reniform macrophages.
Giant cell reparative granuloma
- AKA central giant cell granuloma,[30] abbreviated CGCG.
- AKA solid aneurysmal bone cyst.[31]
General
- Lesion of the mandible and maxilla.[30]
Radiology
- Lytic lesion.
Microscopic
Features:[30]
- Giant cells.
- Fibroblasts.
- Osteoid.
- Hemosiderin-laden macrophages.
DDx:
- Peripheral giant cell granuloma - soft tissue counterpart of CGCG.
- Giant cell tumour of bone.
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Molecular
Recurrent chromosomal translocation:[31]
- t(16;17)(q22;p13).
Osteopetrosis
General
- Rare.
- Genetic - may be autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked.[32]
- Pancytopenias - due to oblieration of the marrow space.
- Fractures.
- Radiologic diagnosis.
Gross
- Marbled appearance.
- Thickening with obliteration of the marrow space.
- Patchy (brown) surface due to vascularization/extramedullary hematopoiesis.[33]
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Microscopic
Features:[34]
- Abundant irregular (pink) bony trabeculae with layers of (blue-gray) cartilage.
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Osteoporosis
General
- Very common.
- Associated with fractures, esp. wrist, hip & vertebra.[35]
- Radiologic diagnosis - bone mineral density.
Etiology:[36]
- Primary (senile).
- Secondary:
- Endocrine:
- Hyperparathyroidism.
- Gastrointestinal:
- Malabsorption, e.g. celiac disease, cystic fibrosis, Crohn's disease.
- Starvation.
- Psychiatric:
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Bulimia nervosa.
- Neoplasia:
- Drugs:
- Systemic steroids.[37]
- Endocrine:
Gross
- Decreased numbers of, abnormally thin, bony spicules.
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Microscopic
Features:
- Thin trabeculae.
See also
References
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