Colles’ fracture

COLLES

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Obvious deformity
• Long healing time
• Lack of healing
• Extensor pollicis longus rupture
• Sympathetic dystrophy

X-ray features of Osteoarthritis

(LOSS)

Loss of joint space
Osteophytes
Subchondral sclerosis
Subchondral cysts

Compartment Syndrome

(all the Ps)

Early
Pain out of proportion to the injury
Pain with passive movement

Later
Paraylsis
Pulselessness
Paraesthesia
Pallor
Poikilothermia (or Perishing cold)

chronic osteomyelitis

chronic osteomyelitis is secondary to 
(BAG) 
 B: Brodie's abscess 
A: acurte osteomyelitis 
G: Garre's osteomyelitis

Treatment
 (SAC)
S: seqestrectomy and saucerisation
A: agressive aproach ie excision of infected part and amputation
C: curettage and continuous suction and irrigation.

Salter-Harris clafficiation of paediatric fractures

SALTR

• Slipped / Straight across
• Above
• Lower
• Through
• Rammed (crushed)

Rheumatoid arthritis x-ray findings

SOLD

• Swelling of soft tissues
• Osteopenia (juxta-articular)
• Loss of joint space
• Deformity of the joint

Pagets disease of bone: signs and symptoms

PANICS:
Pain
Arthralgia
Nerve compression / Neural deafness
Increased bone density
Cardiac failure
Skull / Sclerotic vertebrae

Diaphysial tumors:

Adam has multiple osteoid reticular wings he can't fly.
Adam- adamantinoma
Multile- multiple myeloma
Osteoid- osteoid osteoma
Reticular- reticular cell sarcoma
Wings- ewings sarcoma
Cant- cortical fibrous dyspladia, chondromyxoid fibroma
Fly- fibrosarcoma

Paget's disease of bone: clinical features

"PANICS"
Pain
Arthralgia
Nerve compression/Neural deafness
Increased bone density
Cardiac failure
Skull/Sclerotic vertebrae

Arthritis: Causes

"HINTS"

Hemorrhage (due to trauma/hemophilia)
Inflammatory (rheumatoid arthritis, crystals due to gout, psoriasis)
Noninflammatory (osteoarthritis)
Trauma/Tumour
Septic arthritis

Shaft of the femur fracture

AbSOlute FEaR

Ab- abduction

S-shortening of limb

O-overriding of distal fragement

F-flexn

EaR- ext. Rotation

Features of fracture of neck of femur:

TEARS

T: tenderness
E: ext. Rotation
A: attempted hip movement
painful,tears cm
R: raising of straight leg nt posible
S: shortening of leg

Shaft of the femur fracture

AbSOlute FEaR

Ab- abduction
S-shortening of limb
O-overriding of distal fragement
F-flexn
EaR- ext. Rotation