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MSK Flashcards

1
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Wrist drop

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Radial nerve palsy

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2
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Dinner fork

Swan neck deformity in wrist

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Displaced colles fracture

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3
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Pain /tenderness in anatomical snuff box

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Scaphoid fracture

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4
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Feels like walking on pebbles

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Advanced rheumatoid in feet

Subluxation of metatarsophalangeal joints

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5
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Arthritis +uveitis + urethritis

Can’t see can’t pee can’t bend the knee

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Reiters syndrome

reactive arthritis

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6
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Foot drop

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Common fibulas nerve ( peroneal nerve)

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7
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Fracture AV necrosis

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Proximal scaphoid 
Proximal tallus
Intracapsular femoral head
Femoral condyles
Humeral head 
Capitellun
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8
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Hanging rope sign

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AVN

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9
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Negative birefringment , needle shaped unrated crystals

yellow to blue

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Gout

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10
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Envelope shaped/ rhomboid

Mildly positive birefringment calcium pyrophosphate crystals

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Pseudo gout

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11
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Positive anterior drawer test( knee)

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ACL tear/ rupture

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12
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Pain in internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 degrees

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Lateral meniscal tear

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13
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Painful arc

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Damaged supraspinatus tendon

Frozen shoulder

Rotator cuff impingementv

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14
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Difficulty with external rotation

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Frozen shoulder

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15
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Dry eyes
Dry mouth
Dry skin
Positive schirmer’s test

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Sjogrens syndrome

often with infiltration and RA

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16
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Dry eyes
Dry mouth
Dry vagina
Bronchitis

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Sicca syndrome

no arthritis and no infiltration

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17
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Locked knee

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Bucket handle meniscal tear

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18
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Bamboo sign on x ray

Inflamed sacroiliac joints

Question mark posture

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Ankylosing spondylitis

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19
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Shortened Leg

Externally rotated

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Displaced fracture neck of femur

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20
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Onion peel skin

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Ewings sarcoma

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21
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Sun ray speculation

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Osteosarcoma

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22
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Popcorn calcification on x ray

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Chondrosarcoma

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23
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Soap bubble appearance on x ray

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Giant cell tumour

24
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Scalp tenderness and jaw claudication

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Temporal arteritis

25
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Growers sign positive

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Duchenne MD

26
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Swollen woody calves

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Duchenne or Becker MD

27
Q

Rosarty bead sign

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Poly arteritis

28
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Light bulb sign

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Posterior shoulder dislocation

29
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Shepherd’s crook deformity

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Fibrous dysphasia

30
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Tender over medial epicondylitis

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Golfer’s elbow

31
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Tender over greater trochanter

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Trochanteric bursitis

32
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Tender heel on walking

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Plantar fasciitis

33
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Tender over lateral epicondyle

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Tennis elbow

34
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Restricted rotation of shoulder

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Adhesive capsulitis

35
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Pencil in cup x ray appearance

Sausage fingers

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Psoriatic arthritis

36
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Wrist drop

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Radial nerve injury

37
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Hold arm externally rotated and slightly abducted

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Anterior should dislocation

38
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Hold arm internally rotated and adducted

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Posterior shoulder dislocation

39
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Supra condylar fracture is most likely to damage what nerve

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Median

40
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Main treatment for pagets

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Bisphosphonates

41
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Alcohol consumption is associated with

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Dupuytrens

42
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Increased CPK and aldolase

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Polymositis

43
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Mid shaft numeral fracture will damage what nerve

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Radial

44
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Electric shock and epilepsy are associated with

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Posterior shoulder dislocation

45
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What wrist bone dislocates the most

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Lunate

46
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Recurrent oral ulceration
Ophthalmic lesions
Skin lesions
Arthritis and iBD

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Behcet’s disease

47
Q

Decrease in bone mass

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Osteopenia

48
Q

Cause oesophagitis

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Bisphosphonates

49
Q

Softening of bones
Bone pain
Muscle weakness
Asian female

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Osteomalacia

50
Q

Deafness

Blue sclera

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Osteogenesis imperfecta

51
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Calcinosis
Raynauds
Difficulty swallowing
Sclerodactyly
Telangiectsia
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Systemic sclerosis

52
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Flexed adducted externally rotated leg

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Femoral shaft fracture

53
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Drop foot after hip replacement

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Sciatic nerve

54
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Drop foot after knee injury

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Common fibular nerve

55
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Excessive anterior glide tibia on femur

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Anterior cruciate ligament injury

56
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Excessive posterior glide tibia on femur

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Posterior cruciate injury

57
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Prominent tender tibial tuberosity

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