Arab Orthopaedic Board MCQs - Part 36

The function of the endplate is to:

Which of the following structures allows the transfer of water and solutes but prevents the loss of large proteoglycan molecules from the disc:

Which of the following structures is considered as the weak link in maintaining vertebral body integrity:

Which of the following types of collagen is present within the deeper portion of the anulus fibrosus:

The stress in the anulus fibers is approximately how many times the applied stress in the nucleus:

“Stress profilometry” is when:

Posterior disc bulging is greatest during:

The type of collagen involved in ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine would be:

Up to 50% of Caucasian patients with OPLL also have:

The Finger Escape sign is most often associated with:

Which of the A pully”s of the flexor tendon sheath, lies at the level of the Metacarpophalangeal Joint:

The golfer’s elbow is known to occur in the:

The biceps tendon is known to insert on the:

Which of the following bones about the elbow is most involved with elbow instability following trauma:

The Popeye arm is known to occur in a rupture of which of the following tendons:

The strongest supinator of the forearm is:

Which of the following muscles is not innervated by the ulnar nerve:

As the radial nerve divides in two parts as it reaches the elbow, which of the following is the branch that pierces the supinator muscle:

A patient is noted to have weakness of wrist and finger extension together with pain on resisted supination and finger extension, most likely has a:

Median nerve compression in the forearm may result from:

Following injuries of the elbow which motion is most likely to be limited at the completion of treatment:

The primary stabilizers of the elbow are:

The primary valgus stabilizer of the elbow is the:

All the following are components of the lateral collateral ligament complex of the elbow except:

The most important ligament in the lateral collateral liament of the elbow, would be:

Posterolateral instability of the elbow results from injury of which of the following ligaments:

All the following are secondary stabilizers of the elbow except:

The most common dislocation about the elbow is:

In Baseball pitchers which of the following ligaments are at maximum strain:

Which of the following structures is used as a substitute for medio-lateral ligament insufficiency of the elbow and is used as a graft:

Pitching at a very young age could result in:

Which of the following types of osteogenesis imperfecta is associated particularly with coxa vara:

Which of the following types of osteogenesis imperfects is associated particularly with a blue sclera:

Which type of Osteogenesis Imperfecta is characterized by in utero fractures and is often lethal at birth:

Which type of collagen is deficient in Osteogenesis Imperfecta:

Surgical treatment of ruptures of the Achilles tendon has been shown to provide:

Nonsurgical functional rehabilitation in Achilles tendon ruptures offers:-

All the following are mechanisms that provide joint stability in the knee, except

The MSIS definition of infection is:

The staph aureus biofilms act or behave in the following way:

A method used to redirect the biofilm formation would be by the:-

The ulnar tunnel syndrome is distinguished from a cubital tunnel syndrome by:

Patients with radial tunnel syndrome have no paresthesias in the dorsoradial hand but one should include other diagnostic problems in the differential diagnosis of this situation. These include all except:

Which of the following nerves has no nerve supply proximal to the elbow

Other sites of entrapment of the median nerve around the elbow (besides the pronator teres syndrome) includes all except:

The predominant organism to be found in nontuberculous infections of the spine, would be:

The indications for the surgical management of a patient diagnosed to have a non- tuberculous infection of the spine, would be all the following, EXCEPT:

The Imaging modality best used for the diagnosis of infections of the spine, would be:

Spinal infections are often treated by chemotherapy, in the absence of neurologic deficit, spinal deformity and instability.Which of the following would tell you that you should intervene surgically:

Computed Tomography is more accurate than MRI in which of the following: