Musculoskeletal Flashcards
Pencil in cup x-ray appearance
Sausage fingers
Psoriatic arthritis
Wrist drop
Radial nerve palsy
Dinner fork or swans neck deformity in the wrist
Displaced Colles fracture
Pain/tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox
Scaphoid fracture
Feels like walking on pebbles
Advanced rheumatoid arthritis
> subluxation of the MTP joints
Arthritis
Uveitis
Urethritis
(can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee)
Reiter’s syndrome (reactive arthritis)
Foot drop
Common fibular nerve
Fractures at risk of AVN
Proximal scaphoid Intracapsular femoral Femoral condyles Humeral head Capitellum Proximal talus
Hanging rope sign
AVN
Negative birefringent, needle shaped urate crystals (yellow to blue)
Gout
Envelope shaped/rhomboid, mildly positive birefringent Ca pyrophosphate crystals
Pseudogout
Positive anterior drawer test
ACL tear/rupture
Pain in internal rotation and extension of knee at 90 o
Lateral meniscal tear
Painful arc (70-120 o)
Damaged supraspinatus tendon, frozen shoudler, rotator cuff tendon impingement
Difficulty with external rotation of the shoulder
Frozen shoudler
Dry eyes
Dry mouth and skin
Positive Schirmers Test
Sjogren’s Syndrome with infiltration
Locked knee
Bucket handle meniscal tear
Bamboo spine of x-ray, sacroiliitis and question mark posture
Ankylosing spondylitis
Shortened leg and externally rotated
Displaced fracture of the neck of femur
Shortened leg and internally rotated
Dislocated femoral head
Onion peel sign
Ewing’s sarcoma
Sunray spiculation
Osteosarcoma
Popcorn calcification
Chondrosarcoma
Soap bubble appearance on x-ray
Giant Cell Tumour (benign)
Scalp tenderness and jaw claudication
Temporal arteritis
Gower’s sign positive
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Swollen, ‘woody’ calves
Duchenne or Becker Dystrophy
Hachet like face
Myotonic dystrophy
Rosary bead sign
Polyarteritis nodosa
Light bulb sign
Posterior shoulder dislocation
Sheperds crook deformity
Fibrous dysplasia
