Buzzwords Flashcards
Pencil in cup X ray appearance, sausage fingers
Psoriatic Arthritis
Wrist Drop
Radial nerve palsy
Dinner for or Swan’s neck deformity in wrist
Displaced Colles fracture
Pain / tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox
Scaphoid fracture
Feels like walking on pebbles
Advanced rheymatoid arthritis in the feet - subluxation of the metarsophalangeal joints
Arthritis + Uveitis + Urethritis (Cant see, cant pee, cant bend the knee)
Reiter’s Syndrome (reactive arthritis)
Foot drop
Common fibular nerve (peroneal nerve)
Fracture srosis
Proximal scaphoid, intracapsular femoral, femoral condyles, humeral head, capitellum and proximal talus
Hanging rope sign
AVN
Negative birefringent, needle shaped urate crystals
Gout
Envelope shaped. rhomboid mildly positive biregringent Ca pyrphosphate cyrstals
Pseudogout
Positive anterior drawer test (tibia can be pulled forward easily on the femur when knee flexed
ACL tear/ rupture
Pain in internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 degrees
Lateral meniscal tear
Painful arc (pain on abducting between about 70-120 degrees)
damaged supraspinatus tendon, frozen shoulder
Dry eyes, mouth, skin and positive Schirmer’s test
Sjogren’s Syndrome (with infiltration) (often RA)
Dry eyes, mouth, vagina, bronchitis
Sicca syndrome (no infiltration) (no signs of arthritis)
Locked knee
Bucket handle meniscal tear
Bamboo spine on Xray, sacrolitis and question mark posture
Ank Spond
Shortened leg and externally rotated
Displaced fracture neck of femur
Shortened leg and internally rotated
Dislocated femoral head
Onion peel sign
Ewing’s sarcoma
Sunray spiculation
Osteosarcoma
Popcorn calcification on XRay
Chondrosarcoma
Soap bubble appearance on Xray
Giant cell tumour (bening)
Scalp tnederness and jaw claudication
Temporal arteritis
Gower’s sign positive
Duchenne MD
Swollen “woody” calved
Duchene or Becker MD
Hatchet-like face
Myotonic Dystrophy
