Final Step Musculoskeletal Exam | Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Updated
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A patient with HIV presents with severe groin pain.
What is the most likely diagnosis? - ✔✔Avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Antiretroviral
medications put patients at an increased risk of AVN.
A 65 year old presents complaining of severe pain in his great toe that began when he woke up this
morning. It is swollen, red and very tender. What is the most likely diagnosis? - ✔✔Gout would be
number one because of the location, but you might also think about an infection.
Scleroderma Limited version has five main characteristics for which the Crest acronym is often used.
What are those five things? - ✔✔Calcinosis, Raynaud's, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly,
telangiectasia
Vasculitis with hepatitis B history should make you think of what diagnosis? - ✔✔Polyarteritis nodosa
A patient presents with knee pain following a soccer game two days ago. He has joint line tenderness
medially and feels a locking in the knee from time to time. What to physical exam test should you do? -
✔✔This is probably a medial meniscal tear. McMurray and Apley tests would be appropriate
A positive Apley indicates what diagnosis? - ✔✔Meniscal tear
Which of the four rotator cuff muscles is most commonly injured? - ✔✔Supraspinatus
On physical exam, you notice on their deviations and swan neck deformity what is the most likely
diagnosis? - ✔✔Rheumatoid arthritis
What is the name of the fourth and fifth metacarpal fractures that often occur punching a wall? -
✔✔Boxer's fracture
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A patient with HIV presents with severe groin pain.
What is the most likely diagnosis? - ✔✔Avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Antiretroviral
medications put patients at an increased risk of AVN.
A 65 year old presents complaining of severe pain in his great toe that began when he woke up this
morning. It is swollen, red and very tender. What is the most likely diagnosis? - ✔✔Gout would be
number one because of the location, but you might also think about an infection.
Scleroderma Limited version has five main characteristics for which the Crest acronym is often used.
What are those five things? - ✔✔Calcinosis, Raynaud's, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly,
telangiectasia
Vasculitis with hepatitis B history should make you think of what diagnosis? - ✔✔Polyarteritis nodosa
A patient presents with knee pain following a soccer game two days ago. He has joint line tenderness
medially and feels a locking in the knee from time to time. What to physical exam test should you do? -
✔✔This is probably a medial meniscal tear. McMurray and Apley tests would be appropriate
A positive Apley indicates what diagnosis? - ✔✔Meniscal tear
Which of the four rotator cuff muscles is most commonly injured? - ✔✔Supraspinatus
On physical exam, you notice on their deviations and swan neck deformity what is the most likely
diagnosis? - ✔✔Rheumatoid arthritis
What is the name of the fourth and fifth metacarpal fractures that often occur punching a wall? -
✔✔Boxer's fracture
