Week 1 Flashcards
What line should be lined up for lumbar lat?
Midcoronal
How far is the film a live the chest?
Upper edge should be 1 inch to 1 1/2 above crest.
Is crest higher posterior or anterior?
Posteriorly
What is the purpose of inverting the feet for a pelvis or hip?
To see femoral neck, and to put hip in true AP position.
What key index structure are you going to use whether you are inverted?
Lesser trochanter
What happens when you probate hand?
The radius goes over the ulna.
What muscle runs along the spine?
Psoas muscles
What makes up the a disc space?
Nucleus pulposous: inside
Anglous fibrous: outside
Why are knees flexed for lumbar AP spine?
Reduces ordosis, opens up disc inter spaces. (Narrowing of disc space)
The crest lies at what lumbar vertebrae?
L4
What carpal bones are going to make up the radiocarpal joint?
Scaphoid/ lunate
What makes up the ulnarcarpal joint?
None.
Name the structures of the proximal end of forearm?
Medial, lateral epicondyles, coronoid process, capitulum, trochlea, olecranon.
When the arm is extended, the olecranon process goes into what structure?
Olecranon fossa
Arm flexed what structures is going into what fossa?
Coronoid process of ulna
Coronoid goes into coronoid process.