Radiologic features for inflammatory joint

disease:
a. symmetric, monoarticular, abnormal
ligament, osteophytes (-), periostitis (+)
b. symmetric, polyarticular, abnormal
ligament, osteophytes (-), periostitis (+)
c. Asymmetric, polyarticular, normal ligament,
osteophytes (-), periostitis (+)
d. Asymmetric, polyarticular, normal ligament,
osteophytes (+), periostitis (+)
e. symmetric, polyarticular, abnormal
ligament, osteophytes (+), periostitis (-)
Radiologic features of metabolic joint disease:
a. asymmetric, monoarticular, normal
ligament, osteophytes (-), periostitis (-)
b. asymmetric, pauciarticular, abnormal
ligament, osteophytes (-), periostitis (-)
c. asymmetric, monoarticular, normal
ligament, osteophytes (-), periostitis (+)
d. asymmetric, monoarticular, abnormal
ligament, osteophytes (+), periostitis (-)
e. asymmetric, pauciarticular, normal ligament,
osteophytes (+), periostitis (-)
Radiologic signs of malum coxae senilis:
a. remodelling of joint
b. medial femoral shift
c. uniform decrease in joint space
d. a,b,c true
e. only b and c true
Pathologic features of DJD:
a. intraarticular loose bodies
b. intraosseus synovial fluid intrusion
c. fragmentation of cartilage, bone, and
synovium
d. a,b,c true
e. only b and c true
The best view to see vacuum phenomenon is:
a. AP
b. lateral
c. lateral extension
d. lateral flexion
e. oblique
Radiologic findings in DJD of patellofemoral
are:
a. medial facet loss of joint space
b. medial facet osteoporosis
c. patella alta
d. a,c true
e. b,c true
Pain which is usually aggravated by sitting in
a confined space with the knee flexed is called:
a. tooth sign
b. movie sign
c. buttressing

d. joint mice
e. eburnation
Clinical features of DISH:
a. predominantly females
b. dysphagia
c. often cause spinal stenosis
d. a,b,c true
e. b,c true
Definitive criteria for the diagnosis of DISH
are:
a. flowing calcification and ossification along
anterolateral aspect of at least five contiguous
vertebral bodies
b. preservation of IVD height of the involved
segments
c. apophyseal joint ankylosis (+)
d. a,b,c true
e. a,c true
Radiologic features of late ankylosing
spondylitis in spine:
a. trolley track, carrot sign, romanus lesion,
shiny corner
b. trolley track, carrot sign, romanus lesion,
dagger sign
c. trolley track, carrot sign, anderson lesion,
shiny corner
d. trolley track, carrot sign, anderson lesion,
ballooning
e. trolley track, carrot sign, anderson lesion,
vertebral squaring
Pathologic features of DISH:
a. exuberant hyperostosis
b. unossified ALL
c. normal to mildly diminished nuclear
hydration
d. a,b,c true
e. b,c true
These are signs of OPLL:
a. paresthesia and diminished tactile sensations
b. poorly developed marrow cavities
c. radioopaque strip parallelling the posterior
vertebral body margins
d. a,b,c true
e. b,c true
Felty's syndrome is:
a. combination of pneumoconiosis and RA
b. combination of pneumoconiosis and AS
c. combination of leukopenia, splenomegaly
and RA
d. combination of leukocytosis, splenomegaly
and RA
e. combination of leukopenia,
hepatosplenomegaly and RA

Hitchhiker's thumb is
a. persistent flexion of DIP
b. flexion of PIP, extension of DIP
c. flexion of DIP, extension of PIP
d. swelling of the dorsal surface of the MCP
e. swelling of the dorsal surface of the PIP
Noorgard's projection is:
a. PA radiograph of the hand
b. AP radiograph of the hand
c. hands oblique to 45 degrees
d. a,c true
e. b,c true
What kind of disease that usually atacked
female?
a. reiter's syndrome, scleroderma, secondary
OA
b. AS, RA, osteitis condensans ilii
c. juvenile RA, hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
d. juvenile RA, scleroderma, primary OA
e. RA, secondary OA, juvenile RA
Radiologic manifestations of RA in the hand:
a. soft tissue swelling on PIP/MCP
b. juxtaaricular osteoporosis
c. marginal erosions of PIP/DIP
d. a,b,c true
e. a,b true
General radiologic features in RA:
a. bilateral symmetry, uniform loss of joint
space, large pseudocysts, marginal erosions
b. bilateral asymmetry, uniform loss of joint
space, large pseudocysts, marginal erosions
c. bilateral symmetry, nonuniform loss of joint
space, large pseudocysts, marginal erosions
d. bilateral symmetry, nonuniform loss of joint
space, large pseudocysts, cortical erosions
e. bilateral symmetry, uniform loss of joint
space, small pseudocysts, marginal erosions
inflammatory spondyloarthropathies which is
associated with atlantoaxial instability:
a. AS, juvenile RA, DISH
b. AS, RA, DISH
c. AS, RA, lupus
d. RA, OPLL, reiter's syndrome
e. AS, RA, OPLL
stairstepping sign can be found in:
a. C1-2 in AS patient
b. C3-4 in AS patient
c. C3-7 in AS patient
d. C3-7 in RA patient
e. C3-7 in DISH patient
Patterns of medial hip migration on RA
patient are:
a. prominent osteophytes, prominent neck

buttress, prominent subchondral cysts,

protrusio acetabuli (-), tilt deformity (+)
b.minimal osteophytes, prominent neck
buttress, prominent subchondral cysts,
protrusio acetabuli (-), tilt deformity (+)
c. minimal osteophytes, prominent neck
buttress, prominent subchondral cysts,
protrusio acetabuli (-), tilt deformity (-)
d. prominent osteophytes, prominent neck
buttress, prominent subchondral cysts,
protrusio acetabuli (-), tilt deformity (-)
e. minimal osteophytes, prominent neck
buttress, prominent subchondral cysts,
protrusio acetabuli (mild), tilt deformity (-)
Radiologic changes in the SI joints in early
AS:
a. patchy unreactive sclerosis
b. periostium osteoporosis
c. articular erosions
d. a,b,c true
e. a,c true
star sign is:
a. ossification of supraspinous & interspinous
ligaments appears as a midline vertical linear
radioopacity
b. erosion at the anterior vertebral body margin
at annulus insertion
c. transient reactive sclerosis adjacent to
romanus lesion
d. ossification of superior sacroiliac ligaments
e. endplate biconcavity due to mechanical
effect of the nucleus pulposus on osteoporotic
vertebral bodies
Pathologic features of AS:
a. initial subchondral osteitis
b. ligamentous attachments result in bony
erosions, sclerosis and periostitis
c. marginal syndesmophyes in the outer
annulus fibers and lateral vertebral body
margin
d. a, c true
e. a, b true
Radiologic features of gout at the great toe
a. periarticular erosions
b. hallux varus
c. normal mineralization
d. a,b,c true
e. a,c true