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Hand Arthritides - Differential Diagnosis by Location and Features

The Painful Hand!  Wish I would’ve thought
- Differential ... prior to my first MSK ... #Arthritis #Differential ... Diagnosis #Location #MSK ... #Radiology #Map
Chronic Shoulder Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
4 tests for the AC joint:
1. Direct palpation
2. Cross-arm shoulder
Chronic Shoulder ... Pain - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm 4 tests ... after cross-arm test ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #MSK
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Regurgitation - Differential ... Injury to Root Chronic ... Valve Dysfunction Chronic ... Regurgitation #Differential ... Diagnosis #Causes #cardiology
Causes of Diffuse Lung Disease. 
Collagen vascular 
 - Scleroderma 
 - Rheumatoid arthritis 
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- Rheumatoid arthritis ... - Giant cell arteritis ... Infectious - Chronic ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonology #Differential
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis
The key findings in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis are:
Mosaic pattern with areas of ground-glass atenuation
Chronic hypersensitivity ... Fibrosis and parenchymal ... existing irreversible fibrosis ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #Fibrosis #RadiologyAssistant
Cicacitration atelectasis
Atelectasis can be the result of fibrosis of lungtissue.
This is seen after radiotherapy and in
the result of fibrosis ... radiotherapy and in chronic ... #Clinical #Radiology ... CXR #Radiation #Fibrosis ... #RadiologyAssistant
High Attenuation pattern 
1. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia with peripheral areas of ground glass opacity.
2. Sarcoid end-stage
Chronic eosinophilic ... end-stage with massive fibrosis ... Chronic eosinophilic ... consolidation #Clinical #Radiology ... Comparison #Table #RadiologyAssistant
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
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Conditions With Arteritis ... Retroperitoneal fibrosis ... - Perirenal fibrosis ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Cardiology
Approach to Joint Pain

History:
Is the pain from:
	• Joint
	• Adjacent bursa
	• Tendon
	• Ligament
	• Bone
	• Muscle
	• Referred from
present both at rest ... improves quickly with rest ... : • Acute or chronic ... #Joint #Pain #MSK ... approach #workup #differential
Elevated Amylase (Hyperamylasemia)- Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pancreatic causes:
 - Pancreatic cancer
 - Complications pancreatitis: eg pseudocyst
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Hyperamylasemia)- Differential ... pseudocyst - Cystic fibrosis ... Renal failure / Chronic ... colitis, rheumatoid arthritis ... Hyperamylasemia #Differential