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4 - Short case list

from Section 3 - The clininicals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2009

Paul A. Banaszkiewicz
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Deiary F. Kader
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Nicola Maffulli
Affiliation:
Keele University
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Summary

Not an exhaustive list but big enough to stir up uncomfortable feelings of hard work ahead. Try to imagine the typical scenario of each case, the likely positive clinical findings and possible questions the examiners will ask afterwards.

Shoulder

  • Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) dislocation

  • ACJ pain

  • Brachial plexus muscle power testing

  • Clavicular non-union

  • Erb's palsy

  • Frozen shoulder

  • Impingement tests

  • Instability of the shoulder post trauma

  • Instability testing – unidirectional and multidirectional

  • Klippel–Feil syndrome

  • Long head of biceps rupture

  • Osteoarthritis of the shoulder

  • Pseudoarthrosis of the clavicle

  • Pseudoparalysis of the shoulder (septic arthritis) – destruction of the humeral head as an infant

  • Rotator cuff pathology and testing of muscle strength

  • Voluntary posterior dislocation of the shoulder

Elbow

  • Bilateral congenital radial head dislocation

  • Unilateral congenital dislocation of the radial head

  • Congenital absence of forearm

  • Cubitus valgus

  • Cubitus varus

  • Madelung's deformity plus multiple osteochondromas

  • Osteoarthritis of the elbow post trauma

  • Radioulnar synostosis

  • Rheumatoid elbow

  • Rheumatoid nodules

  • Tennis elbow – demonstration of tests

Wrist and hand

  • Any congenital abnormality – cleft hand, syndactyly, polydactyly, etc.

  • Bilateral Dupuytren's

  • Bilateral Dupuytren's plus peripheral neuropathy

  • Carpometacarpal osteoarthritis

  • Combined nerve lesions

  • Deformed hands due to Ollier's disease

  • Demonstration of Allen's test

  • EPL rupture

  • Ganglion right middle finger

  • Kienböck's disease

  • Madelung's disease

  • Non-union of radius and ulna

  • Quadriga effect

  • Rheumatoid hand

  • RSD post ulnar fracture

  • Severe carpal tunnel syndrome

  • SLAC and SNAC wrist

  • Spaghetti wrists

  • Ulnar claw hand

  • Wrist drop

Hip

  • Osteoarthritis of the hip secondary to AVN post ORIF acetabular fracture

  • Perthes with secondary osteoarthritic changes

  • Untreated developmental dysplasia of the hip

  • Osteoarthritis of the hip

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Postgraduate Orthopaedics
The Candidate's Guide to the FRCS (TR & Orth) Examination
, pp. 15 - 16
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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