Buzz Words Flashcards
Pencil in cup x ray appearnce, sausage fingers
Psoriatic arthritis
Wrist drop
Radial nerve injury
Dinner fork/ swan neck deformity
Displaced colles fracture
Pain in anatomical snuffbox
Scaphoid fracture
Feels like walking on pebbles
Subluxation of the metatarsalphalangeal joints (RA)
Arthitis, uveitis, urethritis
Reiters syndrome can’t sea pee or climb a tree/ bend the knee
Foot drop
common fibular nerve palsy
Sites of AV necrosis
Proximal scaphoid, Intracapsular femoral, femoral condyles, humeral head, capitellum, proximal talus
Hanging rope sign
AVN
Negative birefringent, needle shaped urate crystals
Gout
Envelope shaped/rhomboid, mildly positive birefringent crystals
Pseudogout
Positive anterior drawer test
ACL tear/rupture
Pain in internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 degree
lateral meniscal tear
Painful arc
Shoulder impingement
Difficulty with external rotation, loss of movement
Frozen shoulder
Dry eyes, mouth, skin, +ve Schirmer’s test
Sjogren’s Syndrome
Dry eyes, mouth, vagina, bronchitis
Sicca Syndrome
locked knee
bucket handle meniscal tear
Bamboo spine on X RAY, sacroiliitis and question mark posture
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Shortened leg and externally rotated
displaced fracture neck of femur
Shortened leg and internally rotated
Dislocated femoral head
Onion peel sign
ewing’s sarcoma
Sunday spiculation
Osteosarcoma
Popcorn calcification on x-ray
Chondrosarcoma
soap bubble appearance on x-ray
Giant cell tumour (benign)
Gower’s Sign Positive
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Swollen, “woody” calves
Duchenne or Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Hatchet-like face
Myotonic Dystrophy
rosary bead sign
polyarteritis nodosa
light bulb sign
posterior shoulder dislocation
shepherd’s crook deformity
fibrous dysplasia
Diagnostic Features of SLE - No Paid Marsh
Neurological symptoms,
Oral ulcers,
Malar rash,
ANA positive,
Photosensitivity,
Immunodeficiency,
Discoid Rash,
Renal problems,
Arthritis,
Serositis,
Haemoglobin low
Antibody for RA
Anti CCP, Rheumatoid Factor
Antibody for Mixed connective disease
Anti-RNP
Anti-Jo-1
Antibody for Polymyositis + Dermatomyositis
postive Simmons sign
Achilles tendon rupture
Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta
What bacterium cases gas gangrene (myonecrosis)
Clostridium perfringens