Chapter 13

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

When you are taking a musculoskeletal history which of the following is true?

a) Drugs may be implicated in the causation of gout

b) A history of diarrhoea is not relevant

c) Difficulty rising from a chair is diagnostic of polymyalgic rheumatica

d) Joint stiffness of 5 minutes duration suggests an arthropathy

Which of the following is true of rheumatoid arthritis?

a) Rheumatoid factor is present in 25% of rheumatoid cases

b) It is an example of an oligoarthropathy

c) Anaemia is a common finding

d) Heberden's nodes are a feature

Which of the following is true about the knee joint?

a) The knee is a ball and socket joint

b) A baker's cyst can sometimes be found anterior to the knee

c) The patellar tap is used to demonstrate an effusion

d) 'knock knee' deformity is due to bilateral genu varum

Which of the following is true of psoriatic arthropathy?

a) The absence of plaques of psoriasis excludes the diagnosis

b) The diagnosis can be confirmed by a blood marker

c) Tophi can sometimes be seen over affected joints

d) Nail pitting may give a clue to the diagnosis

Which of the following is true of the spine?

a) Back pain is an uncommon complaint

b) Schober's test is designed to quantify the flexion of the lumbar spine

c) Ankylosing spondylitis is a cause of hypermobility of the spine

d) Pregnancy is a cause of loss of lordosis of the lumbar spine