Exam 2 Flashcards
What type of arthritides have soft tissue swelling, edema, uniform loss of joint space, erosions, and juxta-articular osteoporosis, symmetric pattern
Inflammatory
What type of arthritide has a non uniform loss of joint space, osteophytes, subchondral sclerosis, cystic changes, asymmetric changes
Degenerative arthritides
Notable soft tissue masses within periarticular soft tissues, well marginated bone lesions, PRESERVATION OF JOINT SPACE
Metabolic
Infectious / septic arthritis is MC in what age
Below 30
Mc organism in infectious/septic arthritis
Staphylococcus aureus
Early disease is nearly impossible to detect on X-ray ____-_____% must be destroyed to see it
30-50
Ages 0-20 what type of arthritis
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
20-40 what type of arthritis
Seronegative, Seropositive
Over age 40 what type
DISH, gout, CPPD
ABCDS of joint disease
Alignment, bone, cartilage, distribution, soft tissue
Taking historical points and physical findings and putting them together into one diagnosis
Law of Parsimony
4 categories of arthritides
Inflammatory, degenerative, metabolic, infection
MC Form of scoliosis
Idiopathic
Where is idiopathic scoliosis most common
Females T8-12 with a Right convexity
Age classifications of scoliosis
0-3 infantile
3-10 juvenile
>10 adolescent –Most common
