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
Mx scaphoid fx displacement >1mm
fixation screw
perilunate dislocation ass injury
- 60% scaphoid fx
- hutchinson/chauffeur fx
scapholunate ligament disruption-sign, distance, ass injuries
- Terry thomas.
- > 3 mm. worsened with clenched view
- 10-30% ass/ with distal radius/carpal fx (ex: radial styloid)
- chronic –> SLAC, SNAC, capitate migration, DISI
scapholunate ligament-parts, ass pathology
- volar, dorsal (MI for stability), middle
- ass radial/carpal fx
- DISI
- SLAC wrist
SLAC causes
- trauma
- CPPD
scaphoid fracture compl/associated injuries
- AVN
- perilunate disloc
- SLAC –> Scaphoid Non-Union Advanced Collapse –> DISI
Scaphoid Nonunion Advanced Collapse (SNAC) describes the specific pattern of progressive arthritis of the wrist that results from a chronic scaphoid nonunion.
normal scaphoid-lunate angle
30-60 degrees
DISI
dorsal intercalated segmental instability=-radial sided injury (scapholunate).
- dorsiflexion instability
- lunate comes free of stabilizing scaphoid and rocks dorsally
- widening of SL angle
VISI
volar intercalated segmental instability
- problem with lunotriquetral lig/ulnar side)
- lunate tilts volar –> SL angle <30˚
spectrum carpal dislocation severity
SL –> perilunate –> mid-carpal –> lunate (alphabetical)
humpback deformity
angulation prx & distal scaphoid fragments due to fracture at waste –> no-union, collapse
-ass w/ DISI
DISI ass
- scaphoid fx, humpback deformity
- SNAC & SLAC
treatment SNAC/SLAC
- wrist fusion- strength; no mobility
- prox row carpectomy-mobility, no strength
mid carpal dislocation ass injuries
- triquetro-lunate interosseous ligament disruption
- triquetrium fx
lunate dislocation ass injuries
occurs with a dorsal radiolunate ligament injuries
carpal dislocated around lunate vulnerable zones theory
- lesser arc-purely lig injury
- greater arc-fx+ (“trans-scaphoid, perilunate dislocation”)
- space of poirier-lig free (Poor), site of weakness
which synovial spaces in hand communicate and how it that demonstrated?
- pisiform recess & radiocarpal joint
1) fluid in pisiform recess okay in setting of RC eff
2) entry sites for wrist arthrography
GH joint and subacromial bursa
full thickness rotator cuff tear
ankle joint and common (lateral) perineal tendon sheath
calcaneofibular ligament tear
achilles tendon and pst subtalar joint
should not communicate.
DRUJ
distal radioulnar joint
1˚stabilizer & shock absorber of DRUJ
triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC)
TFCC 5 components
1) triangular fibrocartilage-articular disc
2) volar & dorsal radioulnar ligaments
3) meniscus homologue
4) ULC
5) tendon sheet of UCL
TFCC injuries
class I-acute (fall on extended wrist) class II-chronic/degenerative *ulnar side more likely to heal
tfcc class II injury association
positive ulnar variance, ulnar impaction, central perforation, lunate abutment (cystic change)
ulnar positive and negative variance ass
(+)-ulnar impaction syndrome
(-)-kienbock
ulnar impaction syndrome/ulnar abutment
ulnar –< lunate –> cystic change + TFCC tears
next step colles fx old man
DEXA
colles fx ass injury
ulnar styloid 50%
wrist fractures to know & high yield
1) colles- outward (collie dogs like it outside). ulnar styloid 50%. old ppl
2) smith (reverse colles 85%, reverse barton 15%)- +US fx. young people
3) barton (dorsal), reverse barton (volar, MC)-intraarticular. radiocarpal disloc = HM. sx repair
4) hutchinson/chauffeur-intraart radial styloid. SL diss, perilunate disloc
radial tilt
volar, 11˚
extensor pollicis longus rupture
3wk-3mo post distal radial fx via irreg Lister’s/dorsal radial tubercle
*MC in non-displaced fx
6 wrist extensor compartments
1) APL, EPB-de Quervain’s
2) ECRB, ECRL
3) Lister’s tubercle –> delayed EPL rupture s/p non-displaced radial fx
4) EDC, EIP
5) Extensor digiti minimi-start of Vaughan-jackson syndrome
6) extensor capi ulnaris-early tensosynovitis in RA & sub-sheet tear/disloc
carpal tunnel contents
-4 flexor D profundus
-4 flexor D superficialis
-1 median nerve
-1 flexor pollicis longus
NOT: FCR, FCU, FPB, palmaris (if you have 1)
carpal tunnel syndrome expected findings
- BL n enlargement, increased signal, smashed/flattened
- “bowing of flexor retinaculum
- median n paresthesia (thumb –> radial 4th phalynx)
- thenar atrophy
carpal tunnel associations
-dialysis, pregnant, DM, hypoTh
Guyon’s canal
pisiform and hamate
guyon canal syndrome
ulnar n
-money bars & hook of hamate
sub-sheath tear/dislocation-what, dir of disloc
- extensor capi ulnari MEDIAL disloc from normal groove
- implies rupture of overlying sheath
vaughan-jackson syndrom
sequential extensor tendon ruptures ulnar –> radial starting at compartment 5 (EDM)
-seen with worsening RA
things to think of on MRI wrist
1) EPL rupture (after fx)
2) carpal tunnel syndrome-overuse
3) Guyon’s canal syndrome-money bars
4) sub-sheath tear/dislocation-trauma
5) vaughan-jackson syndrome-RA
6) tenosynovitis- myobacterium/ RA, inf, overuse (de quervain’s, intersection syndrome (ECB, ECL), drummer’s wrist EPL))
wrist tenosynovitis
diffuse (Tb or non MB, RA)
focal-infection, overuse
overuse=de quervain’s, intersection, drummers
Tb/non TB myobacterium wrist tenosynovitis
- hand/wrist MC tendons
- spares m
- rice bodies
RA wrist tenosynovitis
- diffuse, early (bf bone!)
1) multiple flexor tendons
2) isolated extensor carpi ulnaris (comp 6)
3) vaughan jackson
intersection syndrome
- rowers
- 1st comp intersects the 2nd –> extensor carpi radialis breves & long tenosynovitis
drummers wrist
3rd compartment (EPL)
wrist tenosynovitis focal infection
- surgical emergency if flexor tendon
- myocbacterium marinum
Bennett & rolando
base of 1st metacarpal
tendon involved in Bennett fracture dorsolateral dislocation
abductor pollicis longus
gamekeeper/skiers thumb
- base of 1st proximal phalanx
- ulnar collateral ligament disruption
- stener lesion
stener
- adductor tendon aponeurosis caught in torn edge of UCL in a gamekeeper/skier’s thumb
- yo yo on MRI
- sx (for lig healing)
trigger finger/stenosis tenosynovitis
- over use flexor tendon –> thickening of sheath
- equivalent to os trigonometry syndrome of ankle
forearm fx eponyms
- monteggia- prox ulnar fx + ant disloc prox radial head
- galeazzi- distal radial shaft + ant distal ulnar disloc
- essex-lopresti-prx RH fx + ant disloc DRUJ
accessory aconeus/aconeus epitrochlearis.
-medial elbow accessory m –> ulnar n compression
The anconeus epitrochlearis is an accessory muscle at the medial aspect of the elbow. It is also known as the accessory anconeus muscle or epitrochleoanconeus muscle and should not be confused with the anconeus muscle which is present at the lateral aspect of the elbow.
aconeus
?accessory m usually on lateral elbow
lateral epicondylitis
- tennis.
- varus stress
- extensor carpi radialis brevis & RCL
medial epicondylitis
- golf
- valgus stress
- common flexor tendon, ulnar nerve
which is more common? lateral or medial epicondylitis?
lateral
partial ulnar collateral ligament tear
- throwers via valgus stress
- anterior bundle w/ contrast tracking medial to tubercle–> T-sign
things to think about with elbow MRI
- accessory aconeus/aconeus epitrochlearis
- lateral epicondylitis
- medial epicondylitis
- partial ulnar collateral ligament tear
- little leaguer elbow
- valgus overload syndrome
- epitrochlear LAD
- dialysis elbow
- bicep/tricep tear
- pst disloc
UCL attachment
-medial coronoid sublime tubercle
little leaguer elbow
-chronic valgus stress –> medial eippcondyle injury (fx, delayed closure, etc)
valgus overload syndrome
- adult throwers
- lateral compression, medial tension, pst sheer–> triad:
1) UCL injury
2) pst humerus/ulna arthritis
3) capitellum OCD
dialysis elbow
olecranon bursitis
bicep injury related to what n injury
median
tricep rupture
- rare (least common in body)
- SH II fx of olecranon
elbow dislocation
- 2nd MC
- radial head & coronoid process
- “tear LUCL –> partial dislocation (coronoid perched on tracheal) –> total w/ UCL tear
total shoulder arthroplasty complications
1) loosening glenoid component-MC
2) anterior escape-ant migration HH after subscapularis fx
3) pst acromion fx (deltoid tugging)
subacromial impingement
- mc.
- supraspinatus tendon
1) OP
2) coracoacromial lig thickening
subcoracoid impingement
coracoid & lesser tub decreased dist –> subscap
-cong or post traumatic
hooked acromion
type III
internal RC impingement
1) pst sup: GT & pst sup labrum torn + –> infraspinatus (pst supraspintus) dam+ cystic GT. Throwers. ABER position.
2) ant-adduction & internal rotation –> bicep and subscap
RC tear sides
articular > bursal
critical zone supraspinatus tear
1-2 cm from tendon footprint. MC
-also mc HADD/calcific tendinitis
“massive rotator cuff tear”
-2/4 RC m’s
how do you know you have full thickness tear?
gad in bursa
rotator cuff interval
spot with bicep tendon btw supra spinouts and subscap
multi-directional GH instability
type of RC impingement (2˚ external cause, normal CA arch)
- microsublux of humeral head in glenoid –> micro trauma.
- seen in joint laxity often involving both shoulders)
adhesive capsulitis/frozen shoulder
- loss of fat in RC interval, thickened axillary fold
- GH volume decrease w/ injunction
- thickened pstinf capsule
- enhancement of rotator cuff interval
SLAP mimics
sublabral recess
sublabral foramen
Buford complex
how does management change with type 4 SLAP?
extends into bicep anchor (type 4): debridement + biceps tenodesis (vs just debridement)
SLAP tears-what, who
- tear of superior labrum along AP dir that involves labrum at insertion of long head biceps
- swimmers (overhead)
- > 40 –> ass RC tear