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Chronic Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Intra-Articular
 - Bone
     • Stress
Intra-Articular - Bone ... Osgood-Schlatter Disease ... Ganglion Cyst - Bone ... #Algorithm #Orthopedics ... #Causes
Primary Bone Tumors - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 

Metastatic - Most common tumour in adults
 - Breast
Primary Bone Tumors ... • Aneurysmal Bone ... Histiocytoma #Primary #Bone ... #Bony #Tumors # ... #Causes #Oncology
Causes of Bone/Joint Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Vaso-occlusive pain:
 • Mechanism: ischemic pain
 • Can present
Causes of Bone/Joint ... in Sickle Cell Disease ... predispose to other orthopedic ... BrighamChiefs #Bone ... #diagnosis #causes
SAPHO Syndrome Summary

What?
SAPHO syndrome is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of bone, joint, and skin characterized
inflammatory disorder of bone ... swelling of the bone ... • Bone and joint ... Rule out other causes ... osteoarticular and skin disease
Multiple Myeloma and Monoclonal Gammopathies
C - HyperCalcemia- calcium > 11 mg/dL / >1 mg/dL the ULN
R
g/dl LLN B - Bony ... more: • Clonal bone ... Causes of false- ... Gammopathies #MGUS #diagnosis ... #hematology #oncology
Vascular Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
 - Constant Pain (Ischemia)
 - Acute Onset
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Vascular Joint Pain ... Peripheral Vascular Disease ... fractured long bone ... • Dislocated Bone ... #Causes
Pathologic / Fragility Fractures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Tumours
 - See Bone Lesions Scheme
Paget's Disease
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Tumours - See Bone ... • Bone Marrow ... #Algorithm #Orthopedics ... #Causes
Mallet Finger
Absence of a fracture does NOT exclude Mallet finger, the extension function of the DIP
Finger deformity caused ... disruption (may be bony ... Discharge with orthpedic ... Radiology #XRay #Diagnosis ... Management #Hand #Orthopedics
Mastoiditis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Acute or Chronic Otitis Media -> 
Stage 1: Hyperemeia of the mastoid
3: Necrosis of bone ... destroying thin bony ... of the temporal bone ... or infection of bony ... inner cortical bone
Low Alkaline Phosphatase - Hypophosphatasia 

Is Low Alkaline Phosphatase Of Clinical Importance?

ALP enzyme- Discovered in 1923
Low
synthesized in: liver, bone ... Most cases diagnosed ... : Inhibitor of bone ... formation causing poor bone ... Skeletal: - Bone