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19 Cards in this Set
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Children with osteogenesis imperfecta suffer from frequent:
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Bone fractures
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A 1 year old female was diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta. Which of the following could be a life threatening complication in this patient?
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Aortic aneurysm
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A 6 year old male presents with fever, pain, swelling and warmth. Tests reveal osteomyelitis and development of an involucrum. Treatment should include
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surgical debridement and antibiotics
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Polyarthritis is a type of juvenile arthritis in which
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more than three joiunts are affected
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A 5 year old female was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The treatment option for this disease is
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supportive
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Incidence of legg Calve perthes disease peaks at age
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6
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Legg calve perthes disease affects which of the following joints
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hip
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Osgood schlatter disease causes inflammation of the patellar tendon
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patellar tendon
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structural scoliosis with no known cause termed _______ scoliosis accounts for at least 65% of the cases
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idiopathic
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A 3 year old male presents with developmental delay. testing reveals that the child has muscular dystrophy. This disease causes
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degeneration of skeletal muscle fibers
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Which protein is present in normal muscle cells and absent in muscle cells affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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Dystrophin
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy has a
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x-linked recessive
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Seventy five percent of individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy will die before age
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21
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A 22 year old female has a brother with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and wants to know if her children will inherit it. A fairly a accurate test to identify female carrieers of the disease is measurement of serum levels of
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creatine kinase
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A 13 year old female presents with pain at night cough and dyspnea. testing reveals a malignant bone tumore. the most likely type of tumor is
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osteosarcoma
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There is a link between osteosarcoma and
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retinoblastoma
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A 16 year old male was recently diagnosed with osteosarcoma. the tumor is most likely present in the ________ of the long bones
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metaphyses
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Ewing sarcoma originates from
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the bone marrow
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The major predictor of prognosis for ewing sarcoma is
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presence of metastasis
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