95% of supracondylar humerus fractures are of this type.
What are extension type?
Example of flexion type:
These are the four deformities that make up a clubfoot.
What are cavus, adductus, varus, and equinus?
This complication can occur in 25-50% of unstable SCFE and <10% of stable SCFE.
What is osteonecrosis of the femoral head (AVN)?
A child presenting with a septic hip holds the affected hip in this position.
What is FABER (flexion, abduction, external rotation)?
Because this position of comfort maximized hip capsular volume
The alpha angle on hip ultrasound measures the angle between (1) these two structures, and is (2) considered normal in this range.
What are (1) lines of the acetabulum and the ilium, and (2) greater than 60 degrees?
This is the (1) name of this physical exam sign and indicates urgent management because of (2) these possible issues.
What is the (1) brachialis sign, and what are (2) possible arterial injury, significant swelling and skin compromise, difficult closed reduction because of proximal fragment buttonholed through brachialis muscle?
This is the most common cause of late failure after correction with the Ponseti method.
What is poor compliance with bracing?
What is a obligatory external rotation?
An aspiration of the hip that reveals the Gram stain in the picture is due to this organism.
What is staph aureus?
In a suspected child abuse case, the most appropriate workup includes social work, filing a CPS report, multidisciplinary evaluation including peds and ophtho, and this imaging order.
What is a skeletal survey?
This is the nerve most likely injured in the fracture type shown.
What is the ulnar nerve?
Attempting to correct this deformity too early during Ponseti treatment will lead to a bad result.
What is equinus?
This is the difference between a stable and an unstable SCFE.
(1) These are the 4 components of the original Kocher criteria.
(2) This is the probability of septic arthritis for having 1/4 Kocher criteria, 2/4 criteria, and 3/4 criteria.
What are (1) WBC >12K, inability to bear weight, Fever, ESR >40mm/h,
and (2) 1/4 criteria = 3%, 2/4 criteria = 40%, 3/4 criteria = 93%, 4/4 criteria = 99.6%.
This is the (1) most common and (2) second most common presentation of child abuse.
What are (1) skin lesions, and (2) fractures?
Risk to the ulnar nerve is highest when medial pins are placed with the elbow in this position.
What is hyperflexion?
During tibialis anterior transfer, the tendon should be transferred to this bone.
What is lateral cuneiform (B)?
This is the artery that provides the most blood to the hip in a patient older than age 4 years.
What is the medial femoral circumflex artery?
The best medicine for septic arthritis.
What is the knife? (I&D = surgery!)
"Never let the sun set on pus"
What is PMP-22 (peripheral myelin protein 22)?
In a patient with a SCH fx, this is the (1) name of the line that should be assessed on every lateral elbow XR and should cross (2) this bone.
What is the (1) anterior humeral line, and (2) capitellum?
This position should be avoided during casting using the Ponseti technique.
What is pronation?
(Pronation will increase the cavus deformity)
SCFE affects this zone of the physis.
What is the hypertrophic zone?
This joint does not have an intra-articular metaphysis, thus lower risk of septic joint from contiguous spread of osteomyelitis.
What is the knee?
(extra-articular metaphysis)
The X-ray depicts this type of fracture.
What is a metaphyseal corner fracture?
This is the (1) latest-appearing ossification center of the elbow and can be seen on XR at (2) this age.
What is (1) lateral epicondyle at (2) 12 years of age?
Mnemonic to remember: CRITOE
Clubfoot is commonly associated with hypoplasia or absence of this structure.
What is the anterior tibial artery?
Placement of a screw in this quadrant of the femoral head has a high risk of violating the hip joint and subsequent chondrolysis.
What is anterior/superior quadrant?
This diagnosis of exclusion is characterized by episodic fever, multiple sites of osteomyelitis, negative cultures, no response to antibiotics, but can be treated symptomatically with NSAIDs and may resolve in 3-5 years.
What is CRMO (chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis)?
This gene is associated with hypoplastic clavicles and other cleidocranial deformities.
What is Runx2 gene mutation?
Volkmann ischemic contracture following a type II SCH fx is likely due to this.
What is compression of the brachial artery with casting in flexion >90 deg (hyperflexion)?
This deformity can occur when attempted correction of the equinus contracture occurs before fully correcting the hindfoot varus deformity.
What is rocker bottom deformity?
The X-ray depicts this angle for measuring SCFE severity.
What is the Southwick slip angle?
Arthrocentesis fluid should be grown in this culture medium in order to isolate Kingella kingae.
What is a blood culture bottle?
This is the structure labeled #4.
What is the labrum?
This malunion deformity can develop in this injury if treated non-operatively.
Cubitus varus deformity (gunstock deformity)
This transcription factor has been recently implicated and linked to club foot deformity.
What is PITX1- TBX4? (transcription factor for hindfoot formation)
(1) This is the number of screw threads that should cross the physis with percutaneous in situ fixation of SCFE in order to prevent slip progression, and
(2) This is the technique to confirm that the screw did not violate the hip joint.
(1) What is 5 threads?
(2) What is the Approach-withdraw technique (max IR and max ER under live fluoro)?
In septic arthritis, inflammatory and synovial cells activate (1) this cell signaling pathway, and release (2) these mediators, which can destroy cartilage and damage the articular surface within 8 hours.
What is the (1) NFKB pathway, and (2) matrix metaloproteinases (MMPs) or proteolytic enzymes?
Some strains of MRSA have genes encoding for this cytotoxin that has been implicated in MRSA-associated DVTs.
What is PVL (Panton-Valentine leukocidin) cytotoxin?