drpkaur
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45-year-old woman comes after falling down in market place and brought to emergency room and after getting done x ray fracture of right side of hip bone is diagnosed.she is taking steroids for long time for rheumatoid arthritis and on x ray she is having osteoporosis what occurs in osteoporosis?
a.decrease in osteoid
b.decrease in mineralisation.
c.hapazard management of osteons or mozaic paatern
d.fibrous tissue laid down in bone
e.proportional decreases in osteiod and mineralisation
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| muzammil
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i think the answer is b
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| MRMAVERICK
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ya
i thnk b
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| fox
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I thought decresed mineralisation is seen in rickets...can someone differentiate between what happens in rickets (osteomalacia) & oporosis.
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| fox
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I think im rite...see this thread
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http://www.prep4usmle.com/forum/thread/5261
Ans A
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| drpkaur
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decrease in osteiod matrix is seen in scurvy
decrease in mineralisation is seen in rickets and osteomalacia
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| tolito
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e.
drpkaur is right.
osteoporosis is defect in QUANTITY of bone but bone is of normal quality
osteomalacia ( scurvy and rickets) is defect in QUALITY of bone. rickets has combination of decrease in mineralisation and increase in osteoid
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| icemaiden
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e.osteoporosis is decresed bone mass/osteopenia. decresed mineralisation is osteomalacia/rickets. mosaic pattern of bone is paget's.
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| drpkaur
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E is the correct answer...............................:nod:
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| lilla
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scurvy is increasing in structually abnormal osteoid, not decrease osteoid matris. right?
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