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Primary Bone Tumors - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 

Metastatic - Most common tumour in adults
 - Breast
Primary Bone Tumors ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Cyst Malignant ... #Tumours #MSK # ... #Orthopedics #Causes
Chronic Joint Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Intra-Articular
 - Bone
     • Stress
Chronic Joint Pain ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Intraarticular #MSK ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Orthopedics #Causes
Pathologic / Fragility Fractures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm 
Tumours
 - See Bone Lesions Scheme
Paget's Disease
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Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... - Secondary to Chronic ... Phosphate Deficiency Primary ... Fractures #Pathologic #MSK ... #Orthopedics #Causes
Hypomagnesemia - Etiologies by Mechanism

Decreased GI Uptake 
 - Poor dietary intake (particularly common in alcoholics)
inhibitors - Primary ... GI losses - Chronic ... Pancreatitis - Hungry bones ... Low #Magnesium #Table ... Classification #Causes
Polycythemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Polycythemia itself isn’t a diagnosis. Like many things, it is a condition
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... up EPO levels Primary ... normal/high - Chronic ... about secondary causes ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Physiologic Approach to Hypotonic Hyponatremia
The next time you have a case of hypotonic hyponatremia, give the
time you have a case ... normal volume-based algorithm ... Cerebral Salt Wasting ... water intake (Primary ... differential #diagnosis #table
Diagnostic algorithm for differentiating vestibular neuritis from stroke in patients with AVS. This sequence of testing
Diagnostic algorithm ... In one study, adding ... hearing yielded 100% sensitivity ... disposition, even if the cause ... nervous system; PCP, primary
Delayed Fracture Healing - Non-Union - Malunion - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Inflammation (Hours-Days) -> Soft Callus (Days-Weeks)
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Excessive bone ... NonUnion #Malunion #MSK ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Orthopedics #Causes
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
specific questions to ask ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Stable patients ... surgery Stress Testing ... preoperative stress testing
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
are typically able ... us to treat the primary ... cause. ... There is no “one ... clinica l#foamed #algorithm