QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Osteoblasts - CORRECT ANSWER build or replace bone tissue
Osteoclasts - CORRECT ANSWER remove bone causing bone reabsorption
Vertebral Anomalies - CORRECT ANSWER transitional vertebrae
occurs most often at L/S junction
spinal bifida - CORRECT ANSWER posterior defect of the spinal canal.
large bone defects.
CT or MR
OsteoPETrosis - CORRECT ANSWER marble bones
bone dysplasia in which failure of the resorptive mechanism of calcified cartliage interfers
with the normal replacement by mature bone.
osteogenesis imperfecta - CORRECT ANSWER brittle bone disease
disorder of connective tissue characterized by multiple fractures and an inusual blur color of
the mormally white sclera of the eye.
achondroplasia - CORRECT ANSWER dwarfism
diminished proliferation of cartilage in the growth plate.
, scalloping of the vertebral bodies
pelvis and ap spine
Congential hip dysplasia - CORRECT ANSWER Hip instability with limited abduction
of hips.
new borns
ap and hip frog leg views
incomplete acetablum formation
rheumotoid arthritis - CORRECT ANSWER appears primarly as an non infectious
inflammatory arthritis of the small joints of the hands and feet.
osteoathritis - CORRECT ANSWER generailized disorder by loss or joint cartilage and
reactive new bone formation (wear and tear)
Bacterial Osteomyelitis - CORRECT ANSWER infectious organism reach bone by
hematogenous spread. extension from an adjacent site of infectious or tear 6566545
osteoporosis - CORRECT ANSWER deficiency of bone matrix in which the mass of
bone per unit volume is decreased in the amount but normal compostion
osteomalacia - CORRECT ANSWER softening of the bone
insufficient mineralization of the adult skeleton