MSK Buzzwords

Question 1

pencil in a cup x ray appearance, sausage fingers “dactylitis”

Answer 1

psoriatic arthritis

Question 2

wrist drop

Answer 2

radial nerve palsy

Question 3

“dinner fork” “swan neck” defomrity in wrist

Answer 3

displaced colles fracture

Question 4

pain/tenderness in the anatomica snuffbox

Answer 4

scaphoid fracture

Question 5

“feels like walking on pebbles”

Answer 5

advanced rheumatoid arthritis in feet

Question 6

arthritis +uveitis + urethritis

“can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee”

Answer 6

reiter’s syndrome = reactive arthritis

Question 7

foot drop

Answer 7

common fibular nerve (peroneal nerve)

Question 8

hanging rope sign

Answer 8

AVN

Question 9

negative bifringement needle shaped urate crystals

Answer 9

gout

Question 10

positive bifringement rhomboid shaped calcium pyrophosphate crystals

Answer 10

pseudogout

Question 11

postive anterior drawer test

Answer 11

ACL tear/rupture

Question 12

pain in internal rotation and tension of knee at 90 degrees

Answer 12

lateral meniscal tear

Question 13

painful arc

Answer 13

damaged supraspinatus tendon

frozen shoulder

Question 14

dry eyes, dry mouth , dry skin, positive schrimer’s test

Answer 14

sjogren’s syndrome (with infiltration usually RA)

Question 15

dry eyes, mouth, vagina, bronchitis

Answer 15

sicca symptoms

- sjogrens syndrome

Question 16

locked knee

Answer 16

bucket handle meniscal tear

Question 17

bamboo spine on xray, scoliosis

Answer 17

ankylosing spondylitis

Question 18

question mark posture

Answer 18

ankylosing spondylitis

Question 19

shortened leg and externally rotated

Answer 19

displaced fracture neck of femur

Question 20

shortened leg and internally rotated

Answer 20

dislocated femoral head

Question 21

“onion peel” sign

Answer 21

ewings sarcoma

Question 22

“sunray” speculation

Answer 22

osteosarcoma

Question 23

“popcorn calcification” on xray

Answer 23

chondrosarcoma

Question 24

“soap bubble appearance on xray”

Answer 24

giant cell tumour (benign)

Question 25

scalp tenderness and jaw-claudication

Answer 25

temporal arteritis

Question 26

gower’s sign positive

Answer 26

duchenne muscle dystrophy

Question 27

swollen, woody calves

Answer 27

duchenne or becker muscle dystrophy

Question 28

hatchet-like face

Answer 28

myotonic dystrophy

Question 29

treatment for staph epidermidis

Answer 29

vancomycin