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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.

Image

  • Bone. (WC)

Bone histology

Two types (based on arrangement of collagen):

  1. Woven bone.
  2. Lamellar bone.

Woven bone

  • Always abnormal in adults.
  • Collagen arranged haphazardly - mechanically weak.

Images:

Lamellar bone

  • Collagen organized in layers (lamellae).

Woven versus lamellar

  • Easiest way to differentiate: polarize; lamellar bone has well-defined layers.

Bone cells

  • Osteocytes.
    • Sit in lacunae.
      • Empty lacunae = necrotic bone.
  • Osteoblasts.
    • Make bone.
  • Osteoclasts.
    • Destroy bone.
    • Multinucleated.

Memory device: 'b' before 'c'.

Bone marrow

Main article: Haematopoiesis
  • One should see three cell lines:[4]
    1. Erythroid (red cells).
    2. Myeloid (white blood cells).
    3. Megakaryocytic (platelets).

Note: Lymphocytes are considered separately and typically spared in bone marrow failure.[5]

Identifying the lines:[6]

  1. Megakaryocytes:
    • Big cells ~ 3x the size of a RBC.
  2. Normoblasts (RBC precursors):
    • Hyperchromatic, i.e. blue, nucleus.
  3. Myeloid line:
    • Granules.
    • Reniform nucleus, i.e. kidney bean shaped nucleus.

Images

  • Myeloid line. (WC)

  • ====Organization====
  • *Mature hematopoeitic cells at the centre (distant from bone).
  • *Immature hematopoeitic cells adjacent to the bone.
  • Note:
  • =Benign variants=
  • ==Hyperostosis frontalis interna==
  • *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.
  • ===Microscopic===
  • Features:
  • *Micro-organisms - esp. cocci.
  • ===Stains===
  • ==Chronic osteomyelitis==
  • ===General===
  • Most common organism:
  • *Peripheral vascular disease.
  • ===Microscopic===
  • Features:
  • *Plasma cells - '''key feature'''.
  • **May be sterile, i.e. no organisms.
  • *+/-Fibrosis.
  • *+/-Necrotic bone - bone with empty lacunae.
  • ===Sign out===
  • LOWER LEG, RIGHT, BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION:
  • - ACUTE AND CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS.
  • - MODERATE ATHEROSCLEROSIS.
  • - SKIN ULCERATION.
  • - SOFT TISSUE SURGICAL MARGIN WITH FAT NECROSIS AND MUSCULAR ATROPHY.
  • - NEGATIVE FOR MALIGNANCY.
  • =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=
  • 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.
  • ==Osteoarthritis==
  • This keeps orthopaedic surgeons busy.
  • ==Aneurysmal bone cyst==
  • *Abbreviated ''ABC''.
  • ===General===
  • *Benign.
  • **May grow rapidly.
  • ===Gross/radiologic===
  • *Air-fluid levels (radiology).
  • *Usually metaphysis of long bones, but uncommonly the femur.
  • *May have an "aggressive" appearance, i.e. erode bone.
  • ===Microscopic===
  • *Bony trabeculae ''or'' osteoid tissue.
  • **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:
  • ====Images====

  • ABC - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • ABC - very high mag. (WC/Nephron)

www:

Myositis ossificans

  • AKA fibro-osseous pseudotumour of digits.[7]

General

Epidemiology:

  • Young people.
  • History of trauma - typically.
  • Extremities - digits (fingers, toes).

Notes:

  • Histologically "worrisome" (for malignancy) - due to high cellularity.[7]

Microscopic

Features:[7]

  • High cellularity.
  • Low mitotic activity.
  • No atypical mitoses.
  • No hyperchromasia.

Other features:[8]

  • Low power diagnosis:
    • Lesion is well-circumscribed.
    • Normal muscle is adjacent to the lesion - key feature.

DDx:

Images:

Paget disease of the bone

General

Clinical

Presentation:[9]

  • Fracture.
  • Bone pain.
  • Bony deformity.
  • Deafness.
  • Incidental finding - radiologic or biochemical.

Serology:

  • Elevated ALP.

Clinical features - mnemonic PANICS:[15]

  • 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:[16][17]

  1. Lytic (predominantly osteoclasts).
  2. Mixed lytic (osteoclastic) and blastic (osteoblastic).
  3. Sclerotic (burned-out).

Microscopic

Features:[16]

  • 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.

Images

  • Paget disease - bone - high mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • Paget disease - bone - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)

Fibrous dysplasia

  • AKA osteitis fibrosa.

General

Classification:

  • Monostotic - one bone involved, ~80% of cases.
  • Polyostotic - several bones involved, ~20% of cases.

Microscopic

Features:[18]

  • Woven bone with odd irregular shapes - key feature.
    • Described as "chinese characters".[19]
  • Fibrous tissue around bone.

Notes:

  • No osteoblastic rimming.

DDx:

Images

  • Fibrous dysplasia - low mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • Fibrous dysplasia - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • Fibrous dysplasia - high mag. (WC/Nephron)

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Desmoplastic fibroma

General

  • Rare.

Microscopic

Features:[21]

  • Lamellar bone.
  • Fibrotic marrow space with:
    • Collagen.
    • Low cellularity.
    • Spindle cells without significant atypia.

DDx:

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

General

  • Lesion of the mandible and maxilla.[22]

Radiology

  • Lytic lesion.

Microscopic

Features:[22]

  • Giant cells.
  • Fibroblasts.
  • Osteoid.
  • Hemosiderin-laden macrophages.

DDx:

Images

  • CGCG - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • CGCG - high mag. (WC/Nephron)

Molecular

Recurrent chromosomal translocation:[23]

  • t(16;17)(q22;p13).

Osteopetrosis

General

  • Rare.
  • Genetic - may be autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked.[24]
  • Pancytopenias - due to oblieration of the marrow space.
  • Fractures.
  • Radiologic diagnosis.

Gross

Image:

Microscopic

Features:[26]

  • Abundant irregular (pink) bony trabeculae with layers of (blue-gray) cartilage.

Image:

Osteoporosis

General

  • Very common.
  • Associated with fractures, esp. wrist, hip & vertebra.[27]
  • Radiologic diagnosis - bone mineral density.

Etiology:[28]

Gross

  • Decreased numbers of, abnormally thin, bony spicules.

Images:

Microscopic

Features (femoral neck):[30]

  • Thinner cortex.
  • Decreased trabecular thickness
  • Decreased number of trabeculae.

Note:

  • One study looking at iliac bone biopsies suggests trabeculae are no different in osteoporosis.[31]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lin DD, Gailloud P, McCarthy EF, Comi AM (February 2006). "Oromaxillofacial osseous abnormality in Sturge-Weber syndrome: case report and review of the literature". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 27 (2): 274–7. PMID 16484391.
  2. ↑ URL: http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/bsci423/song/Lab1.html. Accessed on: 28 March 2012.
  3. ↑ IAV. 26 Feb 2009.
  4. ↑ URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/199003-overview. Accessed on: 28 March 2012.
  5. ↑ http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/199003-overview
  6. ↑ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Hematopoiesis_%28human%29_diagram.png
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 607. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  8. ↑ IAV. 9 December 2010.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Britton, C.; Walsh, J. (Mar 2012). "Paget disease of bone - an update.". Aust Fam Physician 41 (3): 100-3. PMID 22396921.
  10. ↑ Hoch, B.; Hermann, G.; Klein, MJ.; Abdelwahab, IF.; Springfield, D. (Oct 2007). "Giant cell tumor complicating Paget disease of long bone.". Skeletal Radiol 36 (10): 973-8. doi:10.1007/s00256-007-0310-x. PMID 17437100.
  11. ↑ Karakida, K.; Ota, Y.; Aoki, T.; Akamatsu, T.; Kajiwara, H.; Hirabayashi, K. (Sep 2010). "Multiple giant cell tumors in maxilla and skull complicating Paget's disease of bone.". Tokai J Exp Clin Med 35 (3): 112-7. PMID 21319038.
  12. ↑ Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 602080
  13. ↑ Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 603499
  14. ↑ Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 606263
  15. ↑ URL: http://www.medicalgeek.com/orthopedics/2743-orthopedics-mnemonics.html. Accessed on: 30 April 2012.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/311688-overview. Accessed on: 25 December 2010.
  17. ↑ URL: http://radiopaedia.org/articles/paget-disease-of-bone-1. Accessed on: 25 December 2010.
  18. ↑ URL: http://www.pathologypics.com/pictview.aspx?id=104. Accessed on: 14 April 2011.
  19. ↑ URL: http://www.pathcases.com/bone_tumors_and_tumor.htm. Accessed on: 31 May 2011.
  20. ↑ Inwards, CY (2001). "Low-grade central osteosarcoma versus fibrous dysplasia". Pathology Case Reviews 6 (1): 22-27. http://journals.lww.com/pathologycasereviews/Fulltext/2001/01000/Low_Grade_Central_Osteosarcoma_Versus_Fibrous.5.aspx.
  21. ↑ URL: http://www.bonetumor.org/tumors-fibrous-tissue/desmoplastic-fibroma. Accessed on: 14 April 2011.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Shah UA, Shah AK, Kumar S. Giant cell reparative granuloma of the jaw: A case report. Indian J Radiol Imaging [serial online] 2006 [cited 2012 Feb 28];16:677-8. Available from: http://www.ijri.org/text.asp?2006/16/4/677/32297.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Pan, Z.; Sanger, WG.; Bridge, JA.; Hunter, WJ.; Siegal, GP.; Wei, S. (Jan 2012). "A novel t(6;13)(q15;q34) translocation in a giant cell reparative granuloma (solid aneurysmal bone cyst).". Hum Pathol. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2011.10.003. PMID 22285042.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Stark, Z.; Savarirayan, R. (2009). "Osteopetrosis.". Orphanet J Rare Dis 4: 5. doi:10.1186/1750-1172-4-5. PMC 2654865. PMID 19232111. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654865/.
  25. ↑ Rose, Alan G. (2008). Atlas of Gross Pathology with Histologic Correlation (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 469. ISBN 978-0521868792.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 McMahon, C.; Will, A.; Hu, P.; Shah, GN.; Sly, WS.; Smith, OP. (Apr 2001). "Bone marrow transplantation corrects osteopetrosis in the carbonic anhydrase II deficiency syndrome.". Blood 97 (7): 1947-50. PMID 11264157.
  27. ↑ Lix, LM.; Azimaee, M.; Acan Osman, B.; Caetano, P.; Morin, S.; Metge, C.; Goltzman, D.; Kreiger, N. et al. (Apr 2012). "Osteoporosis-related fracture case definitions for population-based administrative data.". BMC Public Health 12 (1): 301. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-301. PMID 22537071.
  28. ↑ Mitchell, Richard; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Abbas, Abul K.; Aster, Jon (2011). Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (8th ed.). Elsevier Saunders. pp. 617. ISBN 978-1416054542.
  29. ↑ Dalle Carbonare, L.; Bertoldo, F.; Valenti, MT.; Zenari, S.; Zanatta, M.; Sella, S.; Giannini, S.; Cascio, VL. (2005). "Histomorphometric analysis of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.". Micron 36 (7-8): 645-52. doi:10.1016/j.micron.2005.07.009. PMID 16243531.
  30. ↑ Blain, H.; Chavassieux, P.; Portero-Muzy, N.; Bonnel, F.; Canovas, F.; Chammas, M.; Maury, P.; Delmas, PD. (Nov 2008). "Cortical and trabecular bone distribution in the femoral neck in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.". Bone 43 (5): 862-8. doi:10.1016/j.bone.2008.07.236. PMID 18708176.
  31. ↑ Chappard, D.; Alexandre, C.; Riffat, G. (1988). "Spatial distribution of trabeculae in iliac bone from 145 osteoporotic females.". Acta Anat (Basel) 132 (2): 137-42. PMID 3414359.
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