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8- Musculoskeletal System (3 Hours & 21 minutes)

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   Content of this Session
    • Developmental dysplasia of the hip
    • Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
    • Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
    • Osgood-Schlatter disease (traction apophysitis)
    • Radial head subluxation
    • Greenstick fracture
    • Torus (buckle) fracture
    • Achondroplasia
    • Osteoporosis
    • Osteopetrosis (marble bone disease)
    • Rickets/osteomalacia
    • Paget disease of bone (osteitis deformans)
    • Osteomyelitis

 

 

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

During the postnatal visit of 4 month age child placing the infant supine with each hip flexed to 90° followed by abduction with anterior lifting of the hip –> palpable clunk, adduction with posterior pressure on the hip –> palpable clunk + ultrasound showed dislocation of the femoral head from the acetabulum?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

6 years old child presenting with insidious onset of hip pain + limping + x-ray below shows a flattened and fragmented left femoral head?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Obese 12-year-old child with hip/knee pain + altered gait (limping) + x-ray shows the femoral head slips posteriorly and medially relative to the femoral neck (like a scoop of ice cream slipping off a cone)?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Young adolescents athlete presenting with pain and swelling at the tibial tuberosity + xray show avulsion of the tibial tuberosity?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

3 years old child presenting with pain and tenderness in the elbow after swinging the child by the arms during play by his parents + injured arm held close to the body with the elbow extended (or slightly flexed) and the forearm pronated?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

When evaluating child complaing of short stature, you found that he has disproportionate dwarfism although he has normal sized head and chest, normal IQ?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Postmenopausal female presenting with multiple nontraumatic vertebral fracture + acute back pain, loss of height, kyphosis + DEXA scan with T-score of ≤ −2.5 + serum calcium, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels are typically normal+ vertebrae shows trabecular thinning with fewer interconnections?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Patient presenting with bone fracture from minimal trauma + CBC shows pancytopenia + x-ray shows bone-in-bone (stone bone) appearance?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Child presenting with inward bending of the ribs with anterior protrusion of the sternum that looks like pigeon chest + genu varus + frontal bossing with soft skull + x-ray show epiphyseal widening and metaphyseal cupping/fraying + lab shows ↓ vitamin D, ↓ serum Ca2, ↑ PTH secretion, ↓ serum PO4, ↑ ALP?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

65 years old patient presenting with bone pain + bowing of the legs + increased hat size + Hearing loss + Radiculopathy + enlarged vertebral bodies with cortical thickening + Isolated elevated alkaline phosphatase + bone biopsy shows a mosaic pattern of lamellar bone?

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[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Child presenting bone pain that doesn’t affect the range of motion of the joint with systemic signs of infection (fever and leukocytosis) + there is necrotic focus in the metaphysis of the affected bone?

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Staphylococcus aureus: most common cause (90% of cases).

[q] “What is the most likely diagnosis?

Child presenting bone pain that doesn’t affect the range of motion of the joint with systemic signs of infection (fever and leukocytosis) + there is necrotic focus in the metaphysis of the affected bone?

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Staphylococcus aureus: most common cause (90% of cases).

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