MSK buzzwords

Question 1

Pencil-in-cup x-ray appearance, sausage fingers

Answer 1

Psoriatic arthritis

Question 2

Wrist drop

Answer 2

Radial nerve palsy

Question 3

Dinner fork/swans neck deformity

Answer 3

Displaced Colles fracture

Question 4

Pain in anatomical snuffbox

Answer 4

Scaphoid fracture

Question 5

“Walking on pebbles”

Answer 5

Advanced RA, subluxation of metatarsophalangeal joints

Question 6

Reiters syndrome triad

Answer 6

Arthritis
Uveitis
Urethritis
“can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee”

Question 7

Foot drop

Answer 7

Common fibular nerve

Question 8

Fractures susceptible to AVN

Answer 8

Proximal scaphoid
Intracapsular femoral
Femoral condyles
Humeral head
Capitellum
Proximal talus

Question 9

Hanging rope sign

Answer 9

AVN

Question 10

Negatively birefringent, needle shaped crystals

Answer 10

Gout

Question 11

Positively birefringent, rhomboid shaped crystals

Answer 11

Pseudogout

Question 12

Positive anterior drawer test

Answer 12

ACL tear/rupture

Question 13

Pain on internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 degrees

Answer 13

Lateral meniscal tear

Question 14

Painful arc on abduction

Answer 14

Damaged supraspinatus tendon
Frozen shoulder
Impingement

Question 15

Difficulty with external rotation

Answer 15

Frozen shoulder

Question 16

Dry eyes, skin, mouth, positive schirmers test

Answer 16

Sjogrens syndrome

Question 17

Dry eyes, mouth, vagina, bronchitis

Answer 17

Sicca syndrome

Question 18

Bamboo spine, question mark posture

Answer 18

Ank. spond.

Question 19

Shortened leg, externally rotated

Answer 19

Displaced neck of femur fracture

Question 20

Shortened leg, internally rotated

Answer 20

Dislocated femoral head

Question 21

Locked knee

Answer 21

Bucket handle meniscal tear

Question 22

Onion peel sign

Answer 22

Ewings sarcoma

Question 23

Sunray spiculation

Answer 23

Osteosarcoma

Question 24

Popcorn calcification

Answer 24

Chondrosarcoma

Question 25

Soap bubble appearance

Answer 25

Giant cell tumour

Question 26

Scalp tenderness and jaw claudication

Answer 26

Temporal arteritis

Question 27

Gower’s sign positive

Answer 27

Duchenne’s

Question 28

Swollen, “woody” calves

Answer 28

Duchenne’s or Becker’s

Question 29

Hatchet like face

Answer 29

Myotonic dystrophy

Question 30

Rosary bead sign

Answer 30

Polyarteritis nodosa

Question 31

Light bulb sign

Answer 31

Posterior shoulder dislocation

Question 32

Shepherds crook deformity

Answer 32

Fibrous dysplasia