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USMLE Musculoskeletal System Question Bank
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Your musculoskeletal system includes your bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and connective tissues. Your skeleton provides a framework for your muscles and other soft tissues. Together, they support your body's weight, maintain your posture and help you move.

USMLE Musculoskeletal System Question Bank
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1. What is Osteogenesis imperfecta? 2. Characteristics of this pathology? 3. Specific distinct occular findings in this disease? 4. Specific auditory findings?

2. A person with recent onset pain, tingling in left arm has: -Absent sensation to light touch/pinprick on fourth and fifth digits of left hand and medial forarme. -Clawing of all digits. -Rotating head to left causes loss of radial pulse. X ray shows cervical rib. 1. What condition does this person likely have. 2. What structure is likely being compressed? 3. What is the test called that was performed?

3. Non proliferative synovitis with neutrophils and abscess formation is seen in what condition? 2. What are the common aetiologies for this?

4. At what cervical level do the vertibral arteries enter the spinal column? 2. What are these passagways through the cervical spine called that they travel through? 3. Where do they enter the skull at?

5. Organism that causes lyme disease? What is it? 2. What rash is caused by this? 3. What are symptoms after dessemination? 4. Long term sequale? 5. Treatment?

6. What is the collagen type that is degraded in osteoarthritis?

7. What mutation is the cause of myotonic dystrophy?

8. A person is stabbed on posterolateral neck and has suffered partially severing of C6 ventral ramus. What finding is likely to be found related to this injury

9. An increase in calcium and alkaline phosphatase and a decrease in phosphate is associated with what condition?

10. What is triad for reactive arthritis? 2. What is reactive arthritis? 3. What HLA haplotype is implicated?

11. Alpha fetoprotien is associated with what malignacies?

12. What nerve is commonly compressed in pregnant women? 2. What muscles are innervated by this nerve? 3. What is the cutaneous innervation of this nerve.

13. What is osteopetrosis? 2. What is cause of the disease? 3. What are clinical features of the disease?

14. A women diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis begins treatment but after several months blood work shows that she is: -Anemic -Leukopenic -Thrombocytopenic -Slight increase in mean corpuscular volume 1. Addition of what to her treatment would most likely have prevented these symptoms? 2. What drug treatment is she being given? 3. What are adversce side effects of this drug?

15. What anti-inflammatory is most appropriate in an individual with hx of ulcers that is presenting for treatment with rheumatoid arthritis and why?

16. Acute monoarticular arthritis is suggestive of what sort of cause?

17. Where does the radial nerve lie on the humerus?

18. A lady skying grabs a tree branch over head to avoid hitting another skier. She now has: -Weakness/numbness of right upper extremity - Pain and numbness in ulnar two fingers and ulnar aspect of palm -Clawing of index, middle, ring and small fingers of right hand. What did you most likely injure?

19. What are some associated symptoms of Pagets disease?

20. A fracture to the lateral epicondyle of the humerus would injure what nerve? 2. How would this present clinically?

21. What purpose does protein kinase C have in muscle contraction? 2. Function of troponin?

22. Marathon runners leg will have higher concentration of what? 2. A sprinters leg will have a higher concentration of what?

23. How does botox work? 2. What organism is it derived from?

24. What does ethylene glycol poisoning do to the body?

25. What is osteochondritis dissecans?