*WlwG MSK Fractures and MSK Paeds Flashcards
MSK Injury name & stability: C1 compression from diving
Jefferson fracture, unstable
(“Jefferson the diver”)
MSK Injury name & stability: Basion-axial interval >12mm
AA disociation, unstable
MSK Injury name & stability: Hyper-extension fracture of C2
Hangman’s, unstable
MSK Injury name & stability: Extension fracture of anterio-inferior C2
C2 teardrop fracture, stable
MSK Injury name & stability: Flexion fracture at anterio-inferior cervical vertebra
Flexion teardrop, unstable
MSK Injury name & stability: Oblique avulsion fracture of cervical spinous process
Clay-shovelers fracture
(“Head twisting when shoveling, thus cervical spinous process”)
MSK Injury name & stability: Flexion compression fracture
Wedge fracture, stable
MSK Injury name & stability: Severe anterolisthesis and increased interspinous distance
Bilateral facet dislocation, unstable
MSK Injury name & stability: Mild increased interspinous distance with mild anteriolisthesis
Unilateral facet dislocation, stable. Spinous process points to affected side.
MSK Injury name & stability: Comminuted compression fracture of L1
Jumpers fracture
MSK Injury name & stability: Pars defect at L4-5
SpondyloLysis
MSK Injury name & stability: Tripod fracture components?
Zygomatico-frontal suture + posterior zygomatic arch + inferior orbital/lateral maxillary
MSK Injury name: Ulnar shaft, Radial head
Monteggia (“Monty python is near/proximal, Gale blows things far/distal”).
MSK Injury name: Distal radius and DRUJ dislocation
Galeazzi (“Monty python is near/proximal, Gale blows things far/distal”).
MSK Injury name: Radial head and DRUJ dislocation
Essex-Lopresti
(“Fisting during sex, thus prox and distal radius”)
MSK Injury name: Distal radius and ulnar styloid, dorsal displacement of radius
Colles
(“Come sign, thus dorsal displacement”)
MSK Injury name: Distal radius and ulnar styloid, volar displacement of radius
Smith
(“Stop sign, thus volar displacement”)
MSK Injury name: Dorsal aspect of distal radius fracture
Barton
(“Bartender shake drink, thus distal radius”)
MSK Injury name: Chronic scapho-lunate dislocation with scaphoid non-union
Scapho-Lunate advanced collapse (SLAC), from CPPD
MSK Injury name: Dorsal dislocation of 1st metacarpal
Bennett***
(“Bend it/Bin it, thus bend thumb fracture”)
(Compare Rolando with comminuted fracture “Roll on it”)
MSK Injury name: Dorsal dislocation of 1st metacarpal with comminuted fracture
Rolando
(“Roll on it, thus comminuted thumb fracture”)
(Compare Bennett without comminuted fracture, just dislocation)
(Compare Skiers thumb, fracture of 1st proximal phalange instead of metacarpal)
MSK Injury name: Fracture of base of 1st proximal phalange, dx and ligament involved
Skier’s thumb, Ulnar Collateral ligament involved***
(Compare Bennett/Rolando, fracture of 1st metacarpal)
MSK Injury name: DIP flexion
Baseball finger
MSK Injury name: PIP flexion, DIP extension
Boutonniere finger
MSK Injury name: Carpal tunnel nerve and muscles involved?
Median nerve, thenar muscles (Ab PB, FPB, Opponens pollicis and 1st/2nd lumbricals (aka lateral lumbricals) (“FAB & peace sign”)
MSK Injury name: Guyons canal components
Ulnar artery, Ulnar nerve
MSK Injury name: Femoral AVN artery and cause involved
Femoral circumflex artery from sub-capital femoral head fracture
MSK Injury name: FAI, CAM vs Pincer meaning
Cam (overgrowth of anterolateral femoral head-neck junction. Pincer (excessively deep acetabulum)
MSK Injury name: Piriformis syndrome nerve involved
Sciatic nerve***
MSK Injury name: Chronic groin pain in athletes
Athletic Pubalgia
MSK Injury name: Dense sclerosis of iliac bone adjacent to SI joint in multiparous women
Osteitis condensans
MSK Injury name: Proximal tibia stress fracture
Runners fracture
MSK Injury name: Patellofemoral joint/tendon degeneration
Jumpers knee/Patellar tendinitis
MSK Injury name: Meniscal calcification causes
CPPD, hyperPTH, Wilsons disease, Gout
MSK Injury name: What is segond vs reverse segond fracture and associated ligament tear
***Segond fracture: Avulsion fracture of supero-LATERAL proximal TIBIA, associated with ACL TEAR.
Reverse Segond fracture: Supero-MEDIAL proximal tibia, associated with PCL TEAR.
MSK Injury name: Supra-malleolar fracture in jumper
Tibia Pilon fracture
(“Tibia pile onto malleolus”)
MSK Injury name: Lateral distal tibia/distal tibiofibular junction avulsion injury
Tibia tillaux fracture
(“Tibia tail, thus tibia and tibfib joint affected, compare to Wagstaffe which is fibula affected”)
MSK Injury name: Medial distal fibula/distal tibiofibular junction avulsion injury
Wagstaffe fracture
MSK Injury name: Ankle inversion injury ligaments involved?
Calcaneofibular (CFL) > Anterior talofib (ATFL) > Posterior talofib (PTFL) > Anterior TIBIOFIB
MSK Injury name: Ankle eversion injury ligaments involved?
Deltoid ligament (“Delt-OUT for outward ankle”)
MSK Injury name: Posterio-inferior calcaneal fracture
Lovers fracture (fall from height). Lovers triad = calcaneal + spine + arm fractures
MSK Injury name: Bony overgrowth/erosion of calcaneus with compression of distal Achilles tendon
Haglund disease (from bad shoes)