USMLE World Anatomy
Anatomy
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| Front | -Right knee pain after a fall -Examination: swelling & tenderness on medial aspect of R. knee-Widening of medial joint line can be felt when a gentle force is applied to lateral knee.What is the most likely injured structure? |
| Back | MCL |
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| Front | -56 y/o woman comes with several days with progressive dyspnea-productive cough and fever-History of long standing severe rheumatoid arthritis -Urgent endotracheal intubation-Repeat examination several hours later shows she has developed areflexic paralysis of all extremities.What causes neurological defects? |
| Back | Vertebral subluxation (dislocation)(vertebral dislocation due to arthritis) |
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| Front | What are the following chord injuries are associated with?
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| Back | A.) Poliomyelitis & Werdnig-Hoffmann disease due to destruction of lower motor neurons in the anterior horn. (flaccid paralysis, muscle atrophy, fasciculations)B.) Multiple sclerosis due to destruction of spinal chord in a random and asymmetric pattern.C.) Tabes dorsalis due to degeneration of dorsal root ganglia and dorsal columns. (3rd degree syphillis)D.) Vitamin B12 deficiency. Lesion in dorsal column (loss of vibration & position, pressure), lesion in corticospinal (spastic paresis), lesion in spinocerebellar tract (ataxia)E.) Syringomyelia due a central cavitation of cervical spinal cord that is associated with damage to the anterior white commissure of spinothalamic tract. Present superman cape like loss of pain/temp. bilaterally. |
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