Buzzwords

Question 1

Wrist drop

Answer 1

Radial nerve palsy

Question 2

Dinner fork or Swans neck deformity in wrist

Answer 2

Displaced colles fracture

Question 3

Pain/tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox

Answer 3

Scaphoid fracture

Question 4

Feels like walking on pebbles

Answer 4

Advanced RA in the feet - subluxation of the metatarsalphalangeal joints

Question 5

Arthritis + Uveitis + Urethritis (can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee)

Answer 5

Reiters syndrome or reactive arthritis

Question 6

Foot drop

Answer 6

Common fibular nerve (peroneal nerve)

Question 7

Fracture srosis

Answer 7

proximal scaphoid, intracapsular femoral, femoral condyles, humeral head, capitulum and proximal talus

Question 8

Hanging rope sign

Answer 8

AVN

Question 9

Pencil in cup X-ray appearance + sausage fingers

Answer 9

Psoriatic arthritis

Question 10

Negative birefringement, needle shaped urate crystals

Answer 10

Gout

Question 11

Envelope shaped/rhomboid, mildly positive birefringement Ca pyrophosphate crystals

Answer 11

Pseudogout

Question 12

Positive anterior drawer test (tibia can be pulled forward easily on the femur when knee flexed)

Answer 12

ACL tear/rupture

Question 13

Pain in internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 degree?

Answer 13

Lateral meniscal tear

Question 14

Painful arc (pain on abducting between about 70-120 degrees)?

Answer 14

Damaged supraspinatus tendon, frozen shoulder

Question 15

Dry eyes, mouth, skin, positive Schirmer’s test

Answer 15

Sjogrens syndrome (with infiltration) (often with RA)

Question 16

dRY EYES, MOUTH, vagina, bronchitis?

Answer 16

Sicca syndrome (no infiltration (no signs of arthritis)

Question 17

Locked knee

Answer 17

Bucket handle meniscal tear

Question 18

Bamboo spine on x-ray, sacroiliitis and question mark posture

Answer 18

Ankylosing spondylitis

Question 19

Shortened leg and externally rotated?

Answer 19

Displaced fracture of neck of femur

Question 20

Shortened leg and internally rotated?

Answer 20

Dislocated femoral head

Question 21

onion peel sign?

Answer 21

Ewing’s sarcoma

Question 22

Sunray spiculation

Answer 22

Osteosarcoma

Question 23

Popcorn calcification on x-ray

Answer 23

Chondrosarcoma

Question 24

Soap bubble appearance on x-ray?

Answer 24

Giant cell tumour benign

Question 25

Scalp tenderness and jaw claudication

Answer 25

Temporal arteritis

Question 26

Gower’s sign positive

Answer 26

Duchenne MD

Question 27

Swollen, woody calves

Answer 27

Duchenne or Becker MD

Question 28

Hatchet-like face

Answer 28

Myotonic dystrophy