image based Q.113 - Right 'Ans'wer

Q.   Which of these later word of a musculoskeletal disorder (placed after first word of a name of a disorder) is not valid?

a. ...deformans
b. ...mutilans
c. ... neoformans
d. ...condensans

Answer -
c

Deformans is found in Osteitis deformans, severe disease involving excessive formation and destruction of bone and is initial term for Paget's disease of bone.

 Arthritis mutilans is destructive form of joint disease associated with psoriatic arthritis.

Osteitis condensans or Osteitis condensans ilii is painful disease usually found in females as a result of benign sclerosis of ilium near sacroiliac region.

image based Q. 112 - Foreign hand

Q.  All these Greek letters used in Orthopaedics are related to diagnostic studies except which one?

a. alpha
b. beta
c. lambda
d. delta
e. rho

Answer -
d

Alpha and beta angles are used to diagnose and assess DDH ( developmental dysplasia hip) with ultrasonography.

Lambda ratio is used in joint surface studies . It is used to assess fluid film thickness inside native or replaced joint.

T1 Rho (T one rho or T1ρ) is radiological investigation (MRI based) for articular cartilage assessment also called T1 mapping. Other modalities of cartilage imaging are sodium MRI, delayed gadolinium enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC).

Delta is related to delta phalynx, an anomaly of phalanx in which the phalanx shapes like trapezoid or triangle. It is also called longitudinally bracketed epiphysis (LEB). Thumb and little fingers are affected most.

image based Q. 111 - I know it in my heart

Q.  Which of these characteristic features in an electrocardiography (ECG) is affected in calcium metabolism?

a. PR interval
b. ST interval
c. QRS complex
d. PT interval
e. QT interval

Answer -
e

QT interval is specifically affected in the condition of hypocalcemia.
In hypocalcemia, QT interval is prolonged.

Long QT is in rare cases is also found in certain individuals with Long QT syndrome (LQTS), a disorder affecting cardiovascular system with increased risk of tachyarrythmias and torsades de pointes.

image based Q. 110 - What's in name?

Q.   What of the following best describes the injury below ?

a. Night stick fracture
b. Galleazzi fracture
c. Reverse Galleazzi fracture
d. Monteggia fracture
e. Reverse Monteggia fracture

Answer -
c

The Galleazzi fracture consists of radius fracture at any level with distal radioulnar joint disruption.

The similar injury with distal ulna and distal radioulnar injury is called reverse Galleazzi fracture.

Isolated ulna fracture is night sti K fracture but here distal radioulnar joint seems to be affected.

Monteggia fracture is fracture of proximal ulna and not radius along with radial head subluxation.