Knee RMSK questions with accurate answers
Attachments of biceps femoris Ans✓✓✓ posterior fibular head
Baker's cyst occurs at what muscle interface Ans✓✓✓ SemiM and
medial gastroc
Bipartite patella types Ans✓✓✓ I: inferior pole separation
II: lateral margin separation
III: supero-lateral separation
1% of pop, 2% of those symptomatic
Condition common w/ deep infra-patellar bursitis Ans✓✓✓ Osgood-
Schlatter's
Deep to extracapsular LCL Ans✓✓✓ Popliteus
Popliteal lateral femoral condyle bursa
Menisco-femoral ligament
Distal femur attachments Ans✓✓✓ Medial condyle
Lateral condyle
Medial epicondyle
Lateral epicondyle
, Adductor tubercle
Fabella Ans✓✓✓ sesmoid bone in tendon of lateral head of
gastrocnemius (10-30%)
Folding biceps femoris to view LCL Ans✓✓✓ 30-35 degree knee
flexion (both attach to fibular head)
Hoffa's disease? How does it appear on U/S? Ans✓✓✓ Impingement of
the infrapatellar fat pad under patella w/ knee extension
Hypoechoic edema on US
Housemaid's knee Ans✓✓✓ Pre-patellar bursitis
Infra-patellar recess contains Ans✓✓✓ Deep Hoffa's fat pad, 3 bursae:
2 sub Q, 1 deep to pateallar tendon
Hoffa's is intraarticular, extrasynovial
IT band syndrome Ans✓✓✓ Continual rubbing of the IT-band over the
lateral femoral condyle leading to the area becoming inflamed.
Attachments of biceps femoris Ans✓✓✓ posterior fibular head
Baker's cyst occurs at what muscle interface Ans✓✓✓ SemiM and
medial gastroc
Bipartite patella types Ans✓✓✓ I: inferior pole separation
II: lateral margin separation
III: supero-lateral separation
1% of pop, 2% of those symptomatic
Condition common w/ deep infra-patellar bursitis Ans✓✓✓ Osgood-
Schlatter's
Deep to extracapsular LCL Ans✓✓✓ Popliteus
Popliteal lateral femoral condyle bursa
Menisco-femoral ligament
Distal femur attachments Ans✓✓✓ Medial condyle
Lateral condyle
Medial epicondyle
Lateral epicondyle
, Adductor tubercle
Fabella Ans✓✓✓ sesmoid bone in tendon of lateral head of
gastrocnemius (10-30%)
Folding biceps femoris to view LCL Ans✓✓✓ 30-35 degree knee
flexion (both attach to fibular head)
Hoffa's disease? How does it appear on U/S? Ans✓✓✓ Impingement of
the infrapatellar fat pad under patella w/ knee extension
Hypoechoic edema on US
Housemaid's knee Ans✓✓✓ Pre-patellar bursitis
Infra-patellar recess contains Ans✓✓✓ Deep Hoffa's fat pad, 3 bursae:
2 sub Q, 1 deep to pateallar tendon
Hoffa's is intraarticular, extrasynovial
IT band syndrome Ans✓✓✓ Continual rubbing of the IT-band over the
lateral femoral condyle leading to the area becoming inflamed.
