Ex-Cruciating Pain
This part of the meniscus is torn in approximately 40% of patients with a cranial cruciate ligament rupture
What is the caudomedial meniscus?
Forelimb splints are placed on this aspect of the limb: the tension side
What is the palmar surface?
This type of screw pulls a plate closer to the bone, to gain strength from the friction of the bone-plate interface
What is a cortical screw?
When performing a femoral head and neck ostectomy, this is the landmark that identifies the ventromedial limit of your cut
What is the lesser trochanter?
What is the patella?
Leaving less than 10 mm of tibial crest when making a TPLO osteotomy can increase the risk of this complication
What is a tibial crest fracture?
This is a splint that is used to immobilize the elbow
What is a Spica splint?
An intramedullary pin can only neutralize these forces
What are bending forces?
This radiographic finding indicates the presence of enthesiophytes around the femoral attachment of the joint capsule
What is the Morgan's line?
The four A's used to critique fracture repair are: apposition, apparatus, activity, and this word
What is alignment?
Even after a TPLO, patients often still have this physical exam finding used to diagnose a cruciate tear.
What is cranial drawer?
What is the femur?
This is the strongest type of cerclage wires, with the highest load to loosening
What is double loop cerclage?
This surgical procedure can be performed before 5 weeks of age in puppies with hip laxity to improve acetabular coverage of their femoral heads
What is a juvenile pubic symphysiodesis (JPS)?
This joint is responsible for 90% of motion in the tarsus
What is the tarsocrural joint?
This is the goal angle for the tibial plateau after performing a TPLO
3-5 degrees
Distal radius/ulna fractures in toy breed dogs should be treated surgically rather than splinted due to their lack of this in that part of the body
What is blood supply?
This is the only long bone in which placing an intramedullary pin is contraindicated
What is the radius?
It is a postoperative complication that refers to the sinking of the femoral stem into the femoral canal in a total hip replacement
What is subsidence?
This is the bone graft of choice: it has osteoinductive, osteoconductive, osteogenic, and osteopromotive effects
What is autogenous cancellous bone graft?
The cruciate ligament has four functions: prevention of cranial tibial translation, prevention of internal rotation, prevention of hyperextension, and this
What is proprioception?
This type of sling, used for craniodorsal hip luxations, is associated with a high risk of soft tissue injury
What is an Ehmer sling?
When using cortical screws, this is the minimum number of cortices that you must engage on either side of the fracture.
What is six?
This is a complication seen more commonly with cemented total hip implants, but not with cementless/BFX total hip implants
What is aseptic loosening?
This Azerbaijan-born surgeon is famous for his invention of an apparatus used to lengthen bones and correct angular limb deformities, developed in Siberia around the end of World War II.
Who is Gavriil Ilizarov?