Exam2

Question 1

When is scoliosis more common in males?

Answer 1

infantile (0-3years old)

Question 2

How does infantile scoliosis present?

Answer 2

with a left thoracic curve

Question 3

What is the most common method used to measure scoliosis?

Answer 3

Cobb angle method

Question 4

What kind of scoliosis is most common?

Answer 4

adolescent

Question 5

What is the most common tumor to cause painful scoliosis on the concave side?

Answer 5

osteoid osteoma

Question 6

Cafe au lair spots are common with this condition that is commonly seen with scoliosis?

Answer 6

neurofibromatosis

Question 7

Uses the iliac crests to determine skeletal maturity

Answer 7

Risser’s sign

Question 8

What are the four types of arthritis?

Answer 8

inflammatory, degenerative, metabolic and infection/septic

Question 9

what are the inflammatory arthidities?

Answer 9

RA and psoriatic

Question 10

What is the most common pathology of the spine?

Answer 10

degeneration

Question 11

How would inflammatory athridities present?

Answer 11

with soft tissue swelling, uniform loss of a joint, junta-articular osteoporosis, mono or polyarticular, symmetric, greater predisposition for fusion

Question 12

How would degenerative arthridities present?

Answer 12

with nonuniform loss of space, osteophytes, subchondral sclerosis and cysts, asymmetric

Question 13

What is the term for pathologies of the spinal cord?

Answer 13

myelopathies

Question 14

What are the ABCDS of joint disease?

Answer 14

alignment, bone, cartilage, distribution, and soft tissue

Question 15

Degenerative arthritis typically occurs in what type of segments and at what age?

Answer 15

>40 years old and in weight bearing joints

Question 16

What are the two most common degenerative arthridities?

Answer 16

OA and DDD

Question 17

Where would OA most likely occur in women? men?

Answer 17

women-OA in hands and knees Men-OA in hip

Question 18

What would you see on an X-ray with someone who has OA?

Answer 18

asymmetric loss of joint space, Gull wing in DIP and PIP joints, joint mice from cartilage degradation and enthesopathy

Question 19

DJD of the hands in DIPs?

Answer 19

heberden nodes

Question 20

DJD in PIP joints?

Answer 20

Bouchard’s nodes

Question 21

Erosive arthritis is rare and occurs with inflammation. What appearance is found on radiographs in DIP joints associated with erosive arthritis?

Answer 21

gull wing appearance

Question 22

What gender more commonly gets erosive arthritis?

Answer 22

females

Question 23

OA in the feet is most commonly found where?

Answer 23

MTP joint

Question 24

Hallux valgus describes what?

Answer 24

bunion (OA of the foot)

Question 25

DJD of the shoulder most commonly affects what area?

Answer 25

AC joint

Question 26

Calcification pathology at ligament/tendon attachment site

Answer 26

enthesopathy

Question 27

What muscle is most commonly affected in a rotator cuff tear?

Answer 27

supraspinatus

Question 28

What muscle is most commonly affected by HADD?

Answer 28

supraspinatus

Question 29

DJD of the knee shows loss of the medial compartment of the knee causing?

Answer 29

genu varus

Question 30

What is the finding with pelligrini? What is the diagnosis?

Answer 30

steida calcification HADD of the medial tibial collateral ligament

Question 31

Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is most common in what area and shows what kind of deformity of film?

Answer 31

at the knee apple core deformity

Question 32

OA of the hip shows loss of 80% of which area of the joint space?

Answer 32

superior

Question 33

Subchondral cysts found in the hip only and associated with OA?

Answer 33

Eggar’s cysts/geodes

Question 34

Thickened cortex at medial femoral neck associated with OA?

Answer 34

buttressing

Question 35

Who is most at risk for neurotrophic atrophy? (charcot/neurotrophic joints)

Answer 35

diabetics