Name: Natalia Briceno

Theme: Bone infections

 

OPTION LIST

 

A

Brodie’s Abscess

I

Tuberculous Arthritis

B

Candidiasis

J

Tuberculous Osteomyelitis

C

Gonoccocal Arthritis

K

Viral Hepatitis

D

Infectious Mononucleosis

L

 

E

Lyme Disease

M

 

F

Rubella

N

 

G

Staphylococcal Arthritis

O

 

H

Staphylococcal Osteomyelitis

P

 

 

 

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1.  An 8 year-old boy presents to casualty with a painful and swollen right thigh after being kicked in a football match.  On examination a boil is found on the upper part of his right thigh and blood cultures are positive.

 

 

2.   A 24 year-old woman presents to A&E a month after a trip to the New Forest with malaise, a migratory erythematous rash, and arthralgia.  She also complains of being more forgetful in recent times.   

 

 

3.   A 19 year-old student presents to her GP with a macular rash and suboccipital lymphadenopathy.  She also complains of pain on moving her hands and wrists.

 

 

4.   A diabetic 78 year-old man with chronic arthritis presents to A&E with an acutely painful and swollen knee 2 days after he had been given an intra-articular steroid injection.  

 

 

5.   A 30 year-old man presents to casualty with a painful, swollen and erythematous left forearm one week after sustaining a compound fracture in a motorcycle accident. 

 

ANSWERS

1. H

2. E

3. F

4. G

5. H