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lower leg path
merrils lower leg pathology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bone cyst | fluid filled cyst with a wall of fibrous tissue |
| Congenital clubfoot | abnormal twisting of the foot, usu. inward and downward |
| Dislocation | displacement of a bone from the joint space |
| Pott’s fracture | avulsion fracture of the medial malleolus with loss of the ankle mortise |
| Jones fracture | avulsion fracture of the base of the 5th metatarsal |
| Gout | hereditary form of arthritis where uric acid is deposited in the joints |
| Metastases | transfer of a cancerous lesion from one area to another |
| Osgood-schlatter disease | incomplete separation or avulsion of the tibial tuberosity |
| Osteoarthritis | degenerative joint disease – arthritis marked by progressive cartilage deterioration in synovial joints |
| Osteomalacia | rickets – softening of the bones due to a vitamin D deficiency |
| Osteomyelitis | inflammation of bone due to a pyogenic infection |
| Osteopetrosis | increased density of atypically soft bone |
| Osteoporosis | loss of bone density |
| Paget’s disease | chronic metabolic disease of bone marked by weakened deformed and thickened bone that is easily fractured |
| Ewing’s sarcoma | malignant bone tumor arising in the medullary cavity |
| Exostosis | benign bone tumor with a cartilaginous cap |
| Osteoclastoma | lucent lesion in the metaphysis, usu. At distal femur |