msk trauma Flashcards
2 stress fractures
1) fatigue
2) insufficiency
tuft fx w/ disruption of nail plate-mx?
“open” but no OR, just abx
phases of fracture healing
1) inflamm
2) reparative
3) remodeling
* gran tissue at 7-14 d = MORE LYTIC
fracture healing-fastest, normal, slowest
- phalanges- 3 wks
- most-6-8 wks
- tibia-10 wks (slowest)
abnormal healing
1) delayed-2x as long
2) non-union-will not heal without intervention. 6-9 mo
3) mal union
classic locs for “non-union” fx
- scaphoid
- ant tibia
- lat femoral neck
RFs for abnormal fracture healing
- vit D
- gastric bypass
- drugs/mx-smoking, nsaids, prednisone (steroids)
stress fracture compressive vs tensile sides healing
compressive-pushed together, heal well
tensile- pulled apart, no bueno
tibia compressive vs tensile side
- compressive=pst (MC), prox or distal 3rd
- tensile= ant mid shaft. “dreaded black lines”
MC stress fx in young athlete
tibia
femoral neck compressive vs tensile side
C=medial (MC), younger, inferior femoral neck
-T=lateral; oder people
SONK-what, who, where
“spon’t osteonecrosis of knee”
- stress fx in the medial femoral condyles that progressed to subchondral collapse with 2˚ osteonecrosis
- atraumatic, typically affecting older adults.
- Actually spon’t INSUFFICIENCY, ie: SINK
- medial femoral condyle (max wt bearing) + meniscal
- UL
- atraumatic in old lady
most fractured tarsal bone
calcaneus (75% intraairticular)
orientation calcaneal stress fx
perpendicular
which tarsal is at risk for AVN?
navicular
march fracture
metatarsal stress fx seen in recruits marching all day
stress fx to know…
- tibia (mc)
- calcaneus (perpendicular to trabeculae)
- navicular-risk AVN
- march fx= metatarsal (recruits marching all day)
high vs low risk stress fx based on healing
High: lateral femoral neck (tensile side), ant tib mid shaft (tensile side), transverse patellar fx, 5th MT, talus, navicular, sesamoid GT
Low: medial femoral neck (compressive side), pst prox/distal 3rd tibia (C side), long patellar fx, 2nd & 3rd MT, calcaneus
how do you know wrist xray is true lateral?
palmar cortex of pisiform centrally btw palmar cortex of scaphoid & capitate
BF to scaphoid retrograde? why is it retrograde
- dorsal carpal branch of radial artery
- 80% covered by cartilage
which age group most susc to scaphoid fx age group
-adol/young adults (grandma more likely to get distal radial fx with similar mechanism)
1st sign avn
sclerosis
mc scaphoid fx site.
waste
prieser dx
atraumatic avn of scaphoid