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1
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Pencil in cup x-ray appearance, sausage fingers

A

Psoriatic arthritis

2
Q

Wrist drop

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Radial nerve palsy

3
Q

Dinner fork or swans neck deformity in the wrist

A

Displaced Colles fracture

4
Q

Pain/tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox

A

Scaphoid fracture

5
Q

Feels like walking on pebbles

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Advanced RA in the feet- subluxation of MTPs

6
Q

Arthritis, uveitis, urethritis (can’t see, can’t pee, can’t bend the knee)

A

Reiter’s syndrome (reactive arthritis)

7
Q

Foot drop

A

Common fibular nerve palsy

8
Q

Hanging rope sign

A

AVN

9
Q

Positive anterior drawer test

A

ACL tear/rupture

10
Q

Pain on internal rotation and extension of the knee at 90 degrees

A

Lateral meniscal tear

11
Q

Painful arc

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Damaged supraspinatus tendon, frozen shoulder

12
Q

Dry eyes, dry mouth, + Schirmer’s test (often associated with RA)

A

Sjogren’s

13
Q

Locked knee

A

Bucket handle meniscal tear

14
Q

Bamboo spine, question mark posture

A

AS

15
Q

Shortened leg and externally rotated

A

Displaced neck of femur fracture

16
Q

Shortened leg and internally rotated

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Dislocated femoral head

17
Q

Onion peel sign

A

Ewing’s sarcoma

18
Q

‘Sunray’ spiculation

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Osteosarcoma

19
Q

Popcorn calcification on x-ray

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Chondrosarcoma

20
Q

Soap bubble appearance on x-ray

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Giant cell tumour

21
Q

Scalp tenderness and jaw claudication

A

Temporal arteritis

22
Q

Reactivation of latent TB

A

TNF alpha inhibitors (infliximab, etanercept)

23
Q

What DMARD causes interstitial pneumonitis

A

Methotrexate

24
Q

What rheumatoid drug causes tarry black stool

A

NSAIDs

25
Q

What rheumatoid drugs are nephrotoxic

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Gold, penicillamine

26
Q

Visual loss, mouth ulcers, genital ulcers with raised CRP

A

Behcet’s disease

27
Q

What can kill people with systemic sclerosis

A

Pulmonary hypertension

28
Q

What does PTH do to calcium level

A

Increases

29
Q

What does calcitonin do to calcium level

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Decreases

30
Q

Difficulty with external rotation

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Frozen shoulder

31
Q

Lightbulb sign

A

Posterior shoulder dislocatio

32
Q

Shepherd’s crook deformity

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Fibrous dysplasia

33
Q

Bony spur in the metaphysical region growing away from the epiphysis

A

Osteochondroma

34
Q

Rheumatoid drug causing oligozoospermia

A

Sulphasalazine

35
Q

Anti-ACh antibody

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Myasthenia gravis

36
Q

Pain over the radial styloid at the wrist following pregnancy

A

DeQuervain’s

37
Q

Fat teenage boy with pain and limp

A

SUFE

38
Q

Proximal tibia pain and lump in active adolescent

A

Osgood-Schlatter’s

39
Q

Simmonds test

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No plantar flexion of squeezing calf- Achilles tendon rupture

40
Q

Lunging at squash

A

Achilles tendon rupture

41
Q

Pop eye deformity

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Long head of biceps tendinopathy

42
Q

Twisting injury with a pop or crack and rapid haemarthrosis

A

ACL

43
Q

Age group for patellar tendon rupture

A

< 40

44
Q

Age group for quadriceps tendon rupture?

A

> 40

45
Q

Burning, shooting, tingling pain in the 3rd toe interspace, mulder’s click test

A

Morton’s neuroma