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What is the most common form of melanoma found on palms and nail beds?
Acral lentiginous melanoma
Most common cause of airway obstruction?
Tongue (epiglottis) APGAR
scale is used for?
a standard measurement system that looks for a variety of indications of good health in newborns Can
bet done within 1 - 5 minutes
What is Buerger's disease?
Thromboangiitis obliterans.
Occlusion of the small/medium vessels of the hands and feet. MC in young men who smoke. Often
results in gangrene and amputation.
Hematogenous osteomyelitis most commonly begins in which portion of a long bone?
Metaphysis
Only in open growth plates
What age does the distal tibia/fibula growth plate close?
Boys: 12 - 17
Girls: 15 - 20
, Types of Collagen
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I - Bone (Skin, Tendon, cornea) - Most abundant
II - Cartilage
III - Reticulum (skin, blood vessels, fetal tissue, granulation tissue) IV - Basement membrane
Osteomyelitis following nail puncture
Psudomonas aeruginosa
Tetanus algorithm
Dirty wound, incomplete: Td and TIG
Dirty wound, complete, updated: None
Dirty wound, complete, NOT updated (5 years): Td
Clean wound, incomplete: Td
Clean wound, complete, updated: None Clean
wound, complete, NOT updated (10 years): Td How
to verify Osteoid Osteoma?
Tetracycline - Nidus for golden yellow flourescence
bone marrow edema within the calcaneus on MRI?
T1 - Decreased
T2 - Increased
Ankle Fusion position?
Neutral flexion
0 - 5 degrees valgus
5 - 10 degree external rotation
Proper position of the calcaneus after undergoing subtalar arthroeresis procedure
2 - 4 degrees calcaneal eversion