Exam 8: Nonneoplastic Diseases of Bone

Osteitis deformans and leontiasis ossea are other names for what chronic metabolic bone disease?

Why is treatment with radiation therapy for polyostotic fibrous dysplasia contraindicated?

_______________ fibrous dysplasia is characterized by endocrine abnormalities, including precocious puberty in females and stunting or deformity of skeletal growth in both sexes as a result of early epiphyseal plate closure.

Café au lait skin macules are associated with

Light brown skin macules associated with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia are termed

For which disease of bone is surgical recontouring most often recommended as its treatment modality?

Laboratory evaluation reveals that the serum _______________ level is significantly elevated in active Paget disease.

Cementoma is a term once used for periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia. Because the disease does not represent a neoplasm, cementoma has been replaced with periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia.

All conditions are benign fibrous-osseous lesions that affect the maxilla and mandible except one. Which is the exception?

All are likely complaints of a patient with Paget disease of bone except one. Which is the exception?

A lesion of bone identical to the central giant cell granuloma and termed brown tumor occurs in patients with what type of disease?

The serum alkaline phosphatase level is significantly elevated in persons with active Paget disease. This is detected through which diagnostic process?

Characteristics of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia include the following except one. Which is the exception?

What is one difference between the diagnosis of periapical cemento-osseous dysplasia and florid cemento-osseous dysplasia?

This 74-year-old patient presents with an enlargement of the maxilla, pain, and a chief complaint that his dentures no longer fit. Radiographic examination reveals a patchy radiolucency and radiopacity that resembles cotton wool. These findings are indicative of what disease of bone?

All statements are characteristic of osteomalacia except one. Which is the exception?

Osteomalacia is a disease of bone that develops over a long period of time as a result of deficiency of which substance?

Paget disease of bone

Numerous gritty pieces of soft and hard tissue that contain fibrous connective tissue interspersed with bone trabeculae and cementum-like material is characteristic of which condition?

Which type of lesion occurs most often in black women older than age 40 and is characterized by disordered cementum and bone, typically affecting more than one quadrant of the maxilla and mandible in the posterior regions?