MSK buzzwords Flashcards
Pencil-in-cup x-ray appearance, sausage fingers
Psoriatic arthritis
Wrist drop
Radial nerve palsy
Dinner fork/swans neck deformity
Displaced Colles fracture
Pain in anatomical snuffbox
Scaphoid fracture
“Walking on pebbles”
Advanced RA, subluxation of metatarsophalangeal joints
Reiters syndrome triad
Arthritis
Uveitis
Urethritis
“can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee”
Foot drop
Common fibular nerve
Fractures susceptible to AVN
Proximal scaphoid Intracapsular femoral Femoral condyles Humeral head Capitellum Proximal talus
Hanging rope sign
AVN
Negatively birefringent, needle shaped crystals
Gout
Positively birefringent, rhomboid shaped crystals
Pseudogout
Positive anterior drawer test
ACL tear/rupture
Pain on internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 degrees
Lateral meniscal tear
Painful arc on abduction
Damaged supraspinatus tendon
Frozen shoulder
Impingement
Difficulty with external rotation
Frozen shoulder
Dry eyes, skin, mouth, positive schirmers test
Sjogrens syndrome
Dry eyes, mouth, vagina, bronchitis
Sicca syndrome
Bamboo spine, question mark posture
Ank. spond.
Shortened leg, externally rotated
Displaced neck of femur fracture
Shortened leg, internally rotated
Dislocated femoral head
Locked knee
Bucket handle meniscal tear
Onion peel sign
Ewings sarcoma
Sunray spiculation
Osteosarcoma
Popcorn calcification
Chondrosarcoma
Soap bubble appearance
Giant cell tumour
Scalp tenderness and jaw claudication
Temporal arteritis
Gower’s sign positive
Duchenne’s
Swollen, “woody” calves
Duchenne’s or Becker’s
Hatchet like face
Myotonic dystrophy
Rosary bead sign
Polyarteritis nodosa
Light bulb sign
Posterior shoulder dislocation
Shepherds crook deformity
Fibrous dysplasia
