Renal osteodystrophy
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Renal osteodystrophy (ROD), also known as uraemic osteopathy, is the constellation of musculoskeletal abnormalities that occur in patients with chronic renal failure, due to concurrent and superimposed:
- osteomalacia (adults)/rickets (children)
- secondary hyperparathyroidism
(abnormal: abnormal calcium and phosphate metabolism)- bone resorption
- osteosclerosis
- soft tissue
&and vascular calcifications - brown tumours
- aluminum intoxication, e.g. if the patient is on dialysis
Radiographic features
Imaging findings are many and varied:
- osteopaenia: (often seen early) thinning of cortices and trabeculae
- salt and pepper skull
-
demineralizationdemineralisation: usually subperiosteal, however it may also involve joint margins, endosteal, subchondral, subligamentous areas, cortical bone or trabeculae 5 - subperiosteal resorption: characteristic subperiosteal resorption may be seen on radial aspects of middle phalanges of index and long fingers.
- bone sclerosis
- rugger-jersey spine: sclerosis of the vertebral body end plates
- soft tissue calcification
- amyloid deposition: erosion in and around joint
- insufficiency fractures
- Looser's zone
- Brown tumours
Differential diagnosis
- osteomalacia
- rheumatoid arthritis
- seronegative spondyloarthropathies
- neoplasms: multiple myeloma, metastases; brown tumours can mimic primary malignant tumour of bone; amyloid deposition may mimic PVNS or synovial chondromatosis
- infections
- occult marrow abnormalities
-<a href="/articles/osteomalacia">osteomalacia </a>(adults)/<a href="/articles/rickets">rickets</a> (children)</li>-<li>secondary <a href="/articles/hyperparathyroidism">hyperparathyroidism</a> (abnormal calcium and phosphate metabolism)<ul>- +<a href="/articles/osteomalacia">osteomalacia </a>(adults) / <a href="/articles/rickets">rickets</a> (children)</li>
- +<li>secondary <a href="/articles/hyperparathyroidism">hyperparathyroidism</a>: abnormal calcium and phosphate metabolism<ul>
-<li>soft tissue & vascular calcifications</li>- +<li>soft tissue and vascular calcifications</li>
-<li>demineralization: usually subperiosteal, however it may also involve joint margins, endosteal, subchondral, subligamentous areas, cortical bone or trabeculae <sup>5</sup> </li>- +<li>demineralisation: usually subperiosteal, however it may also involve joint margins, endosteal, subchondral, subligamentous areas, cortical bone or trabeculae <sup>5</sup> </li>
-<li>soft tissue calcification</li>-<li>amyloid deposition: erosion in and around joint</li>-<li>insufficiency fractures</li>- +<li><a href="/articles/periarticular-soft-tissue-calcification">soft tissue calcification</a></li>
- +<li>
- +<a href="/articles/amyloid-arthropathy">amyloid deposition</a>: erosion in and around joint</li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/insufficiency-fracture">insufficiency fractures</a></li>
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- renal