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Musculoskeletal Diseases and Bone Cancers

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Most common bone tumor   Metastatic tumors to bone [Prostate, Breast and Lung cancers]  
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Most common primary bone tumor   Multiple Myeloma  
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Most common Benign tumor of the bone   Osteochondroma or exotosis  
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Second Most common primary tumor of Bone   Osteosarcoma [Malignant]  
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Benign sesile tumor attached to the bone surface, usally affecting skull and facial bone   Osteoma  
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What is an Osteoma associated with   Garderners syndrome [FAP] New piece of bone grows on another piece of bone  
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Benign tumor <2cm that is painful at night due to excess PGE2, and relieved with aspirin and common in males <25 y/0   Osteoid Osteoma  
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Malignant tumor typically occuring in the metaphysis regio prior to epiphyseal closure in patients <25 y/0   Osteosarcoma  
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Mushroom shape [cartilaginous cap] laterally protruding tumor that may result from lateral displacement of growth plate   Osteochondroma or exotosis  
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Benign tumor composed primary of mature hyaline cartilage   chondroma  
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Benign tumor composed of fibrous trabeculae of womven bone resembling chinese letters   fibrous dysplasia  
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nodule of hyaline cartilage encased in reactive bone   enchondroma  
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malignant, painful small round blue cell tumor of childhood occuring typically in the appendicular skeleton [may affect ribs]   Ewings Sarcoma/Primitive neuroectodermal tumor [PNET]  
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Benign tumor composed of multinucleated giant cells within a fibrous stroma occuring in the epiphyses of long bones   Giant cell tumor of the bone/ Osteoclastoma  
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Lace like pattern of bone produced by tumor cells   Osteosarcoma  
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Homer Wright pseudorosettes   Ewings Sarcoma/PNET  
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Soap bubble appearance on XR   Giant cell tumor of bone  
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Malignant tumor of cartilage found in the central skeleton   Chondrosarcoma  
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Benign but painful bone tumor that appears as a radiolucent nidus surrounded by dense bone   Osteoid osteoma or osteoblastoma [larger and found in vertebral column]  
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Codmans triangle forms as a tumor causes periosteal elevation   Osteosarcoma  
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Triad of polysostotic fibrous dysplasia, cafe' au lait spots, precocious puberty, and other endocrine disorders [pediatric disease]   McCune-Albright syndrome  
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pediatric disease: triad of skull lesions, diabetes, inspidus, and exopthalmos   Hand-Schuller-Christina disease or histocytosisX  
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