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Self-Assessment Questions
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Musculoskeletal Radiology for Residents
Pawel Szaro
Musculoskeletal Radiology 
for Residents
Self-Assessment Questions
Pawel Szaro
Musculoskeletal Radiology
Sahlgrenska University Hospital Göteborg
Västra Götalands Län, Sweden
Department of Descriptive and Clinical Anatomy
Medical University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
ISBN 978-3-030-85181-1        ISBN 978-3-030-85182-8  (eBook)
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I dedicate this book to my dear parents.
How to Use this Book?
This book includes 1060 questions from all parts of the radiology of the musculo-
skeletal system. The book aims to present essential issues of the basics of orthopae-
dic radiology. In the first seven parts (Parts I–VIII), the questions are arranged 
thematically, and the key to more complex questions include short comments and 
references to the literature. The purpose of these chapters is to show essential issues 
and highlight the differences between often similar conditions. These questions 
cover problems that, in my opinion, are essential and sometimes misunderstood. In 
radiology, we deal daily with debatable issues; hence in many places, I refer to con-
temporary literature. The first seven parts aim to teach a reader by solving problems. 
In some questions, there is more than one correct answer.
In the Part VIII are examples of the three exam sets. I recommend that you use 
these  parts  after  going  through  the  first  seven  parts.  The  purpose  of  the  
Part VIII is to test the knowledge. For each question in these sections, only one 
answer is correct.
I will be very grateful for any comments from readers that will help improve the 
subsequent editions of the book.
Good luck!
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Acknowledgements
I would not have written this book without the help of many people. I would like to 
thank a few of them. I owe my interest in the musculoskeletal system to Professor 
Bogdan Ciszek, MD, PhD (Head of the Department of Clinical and Descriptive 
Anatomy of the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland). I would like to thank him 
for awakening my scientific ambitions, mentoring, and requirements motivating me 
to continuous improvement.
I would also like to thank Dr. Nektarios Solidakis, MD (Head of the Department 
of Musculoskeletal Radiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, 
Sweden). Thank you for enabling me to continue my research and development and 
work on this book. Special thanks to my colleagues from the Department of 
Musculoskeletal Radiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, 
Sweden, for compelling cases and inspiring questions that were the direct inspira-
tion for writing this book.
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Contents
Part I   Anatomy
  1    Clinical Anatomy and Developmental Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
Part II  A  ppendicular Skeleton Trauma
  2    Upper Extremity Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  93
  3    Lower Extremity Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Part III   Spine
  4    Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
  5    Degenerative Spine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
  6    Infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
  7    Varia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Part IV   Tumors and Tumor Like Lesions
  8    Bone Tumours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
  9    Soft Tissue Tumours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
 10    Varia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
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Part V   Arthritis
 11    Arthritis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Part VI  M  etabolic and Miscellaneous Bone Diseases
 12    Metabolic and Miscellaneous Bone Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
 12.1     Metabolic Bone Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
 12.2     Miscellaneous Bone Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Part VII   Interventional Radiology in the Musculoskeletal System
 13    Interventional Radiology in the Musculoskeletal System . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Part VIII   Examinations
 14    Examination Set 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
 15    Examination Set 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
 16    Examination Set 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Part I
Anatomy