Exam 19: Bones and Joints

The most common symptom of degenerative joint disease is:

The central ("midshaft")portion of long bones is called:

Osteoporosis is usually diagnosed by means of:

Patients with so-called seropositive rheumatoid arthritis have in their blood antibodies to:

Osteosarcomas most often arise in the bones of the:

The excess of which hormone causes osteoporosis?

Migratory arthritis caused by Borrelia burgdorferi is typical of:

Osteogenesis imperfecta is an inborn error in the synthesis of:

Subcutaneous nodules composed of a central area of fibrinoid necrosis surrounded by macrophages and lymphocytes are typical of:

The most common primary malignant tumor of bones is called:

The extracellular organic matrix of bones is called:

A tumor in a 15-year-old boy was diagnosed in the diaphysis of the tibia.On x-ray examination,it had a sunburst appearance and histologically it was composed of a uniform population of small blue cells.This tumor is a(n):

The bone lesions in renal osteodystrophy are caused by an excess of:

Rheumatoid arthritis is best classified as:

Which joint disease is characterized by destruction and loss of cartilage,sclerosis of subchondral bone,cyst formation,and osteophytes?

Benign bone tumor composed of cartilage cells is called:

Softening of bones as a result of excessive resorption of calcium salts from the extracellular bone matrix is called:

Which vitamin is essential for the formation of bones?

Osteomyelitis of long bones is most often caused by:

Aseptic necrosis of bones may be caused by all the following except: