Mo - Imaging in Rheumatology (clinical practice and research)

Question 1

For which of the following diseases is X-ray useful: Septic arthritis, acute (pseudo)gout, chronic reactive gout, reactive arthritis, inflammatory rheumatic diseases, arthritis secondary to osteoarthritis

Answer 1

Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, chronic reactive gout

Question 2

What does it mean for RA to have a palindrome character?

Answer 2

Symptoms can jump from one joint to another

Question 3

There is (less/more) sclerosis in arthritis of the hip than in osteoarthritis of the hip

Answer 3

Less

Question 4

Arthritis presents most often in the (metacarpal/proximal/distal) finger joints

Answer 4

Distal

Question 5

Osteoarthritis presents most often in the (metacarpal/proximal/distal finger joints) (2)

Answer 5

Metacarpal and proximal

Question 6

What is sclerosis?

Answer 6

Higher density of the bone