MSK Flashcards
Pencil-in-cup X-ray appearance, sausage fingers
psoriatic arthritis
Wrist Drop
radial nerve palsy
“Dinner fork” or “Swan’s neck” deformity in wrist
Displaced Colles fracture
Pain/tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox
Scaphoid fracture
“Feels like walking on pebbles”
advanced rheumatoid arthritis in the feet - subluxation of the metatarsophalangeal joints
Arthritis + Uveitis + Urethritis (can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee)
Reiter’s Syndrome (Reactive Arthritis, can be post-gonorrhoea)
Foot drop
common fibular nerve (peroneal nerve)
Fracture AV necrosis
proximal scaphoid, Intracapsular femoral, femoral condyles, humeral head, capitellum and proximal talus
Sagging rope sign
AVN
Negative birefringent, needle shaped urate crystals (yellow to blue)
Gout
Envelope shaped/rhomboid, mildly positive birefringent Ca pyrophosphate crystals
Pseudogout
Positive Lachman/ 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 degree
lateral meniscal tear
Painful arc (pain on abducting between about 70-120 degrees)
damaged supraspinatus tendon, frozen shoulder, rotator cuff tendon impingement
Difficulty with external rotation
frozen shoulder