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)