buzzwords

Question 1

pencil in a cup and sausage fingers

Answer 1

psoriatic artritis

Question 2

wrist drop

Answer 2

radial nerve palsy

Question 3

“dinner fork” or “swan neck” deformity in wrist

Answer 3

displaced colles fracture

Question 4

pain/tenderness in the anatomincal snuffbox

Answer 4

scaphoid fracture

Question 5

“feels like walking on pebbles”

Answer 5

advanced rheumatoid arthritis in feet - subluxation of the MTP joints

Question 6

arthritis, uveitis and uretheritis (cant see, pee or bend at the knee)

Answer 6

Reiters syndrome (reactive arthritis)

Question 7

foot drop

Answer 7

common fibular nerve (peroneal nerve)

Question 8

hanging rope sign

Answer 8

AVN

Question 9

negative bifringement, needle shaped urate crystals

Answer 9

gout

Question 10

envelope shaped/rhomboid mildly positive bifringemnet calcium pyrophosphate crystals

Answer 10

pseudogout

Question 11

positive anterior drawer test (tibia can be pulled forward easily when knee flexed)

Answer 11

ACL tear/rupture

Question 12

pain in internal rotation and tension of knee at 90 degree

Answer 12

lateral meniscal tear

Question 13

painful arc (pain of abduction between 70 and 120 degress)

Answer 13

damage to supraspinatous tendon, frozen shoulder

Question 14

dry eyes, mouth, skin, positive schirmers test

Answer 14

sjogrens syndrome with infiltration often with RA

Question 15

dry eyes, mouth,vagina, bronchitis

Answer 15

sicca syndrome, no infiltration and no signs of arthritis

Question 16

locked knee

Answer 16

bucket handle meniscal tear

Question 17

bamboo spine of xray, scoliosis

Answer 17

ankolysing spondylitis

Question 18

question mark posture

Answer 18

ankolysing spondylitis

Question 19

shortened leg and externally rotated

Answer 19

displaced fractire neck of femur

Question 20

shortened leg and inwardly rotated

Answer 20

dislocated femoral head

Question 21

“onion peel” sign

Answer 21

ewings sarcoma

Question 22

“sunray” speculation

Answer 22

osteosarcoma

Question 23

popcorn calcification on xray

Answer 23

chondrosarcoma

Question 24

soap bubble apprearance on xray

Answer 24

giant cell tumour (benign)

Question 25

gowers sign positive

Answer 25

duchenne MD

Question 26

swollen, woody calves

Answer 26

duchenne or Becker MD

Question 27

hatchet like face

Answer 27

myotonic dystrophy