Buzz words Flashcards
pencil-in-cup Xray appearance, sausage fingers
psoriatic arthritis
wrist drop
palmar nerve palsy
“dinner fork” or “swan’s neck” deformity in wrist
Displaced Colles fracture
pain and tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox
scaphoid fracture
“feels like walking on pebbles”
advance rheumatoid arthritis in the feet and subluxation of the matatarsophalangeal joints
arthritis+uveitis+urethritis (can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee)
Reiter’s syndrome
hanging rope sign
AVN
negative befringent, needle shaped irate crystals
gout
envelope shaped/rhomboid, mildly positive befringent Ca pyrophosphate crystals
pseudogout
positive anterior drawer test
ACL tear or rupture
pain on internal rotation and extension of the knee at 90 degrees
lateral meniscal tear
painful arc (pain on abducting between about 70-120 degrees)
damaged supraspinatus tendon/ frozen shoulder
dry eyes, dry mouth, skin, +ve Schirmer’s test
Sjogren’s syndrome with infiltration and often with RA
dry eyes, dry mouth, vagina, bronchitis
Sicca syndrome without infiltration and no signs of arthritis
locked knee
bucket handle meniscal tear
bamboo spine on XR, sacroillitis and question mark posture
ankylosing spondylitis
shortened leg and externally rotated
displaced fracture of NOF
shortened leg and internally rotated
dislocated femoral head
“onion-peel sign”
Ewing’s sarcoma
“sunray” spiculation
osteosarcoma
“popcorn calcification” on XR
chondrosarcoma
“soap bubble” appearance on XR
giant cell tumour (benign)
scalp tenderness and jaw claudication
temporal arteritis
Gower’s sign positive
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
