Musculoskeletal curriculum
Updates to Article Attributes
The musculoskeletal curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent the core of musculoskeletal knowledge.
Definition
Topics pertaining to bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments, but excluding the skeletal structures of the head.
Anatomy
Core anatomical topics include:
Upper limb
- bones and muscles: rotator cuff
- joints:
- regions and spaces: carpal tunnel
Lower limb and pelvis
Spine and chest wall
Radiological examinations
Plain radiography is the baseline imaging modality in most musculoskeletal problems. Other common musculoskeletal imaging modalities and imaging-guided procedures include:
- CT
- ultrasound: rotator cuff ultrasound
- MRI
- arthrography
Pathology
Trauma
Upper limb
- shoulder injury
- arm injury
- wrist injury
- hand injury
Lower limb
- pelvic and hip injury
- knee injury
- ankle injury
- foot injury
Spine
Bone tumours
There are a bewildering number of bone tumours. Below are listed those considered important either because they are common, or because they are important or because they have specific imaging findings. For a more complete list, please refer to: bone tumours.
- bone-forming tumours
- cartilage-forming tumours
- fibrous bone lesions
- bone marrow tumours
- bony metastases
- other bone tumours or tumour-like lesions:
Soft tissue tumours
- malignant fibrous histiocytoma
- liposarcoma
- synovial cell sarcoma
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- pigmented villonodular synovitis
- lipoma arborescens
Arthritides
- general
- degenerative
- inflammatory
- metabolic and endocrine
Infections
- septic arthritis
-
osteomyelitis
- pyogenic
- tuberculous
- fungal
- syphilitic
Congenital and developmental
- upper limb
- lower limb
- spine and chest wall
- general
Sports medicine
Sports medicine encompasses more than just musculoskeletal disease but in radiology, this is the main interaction with this speciality. The following topics concentrate on overuse injuries but bearing in mind that sports medicine encompasses some of the above topics but especially trauma. It should also be noted that many of these conditions can occur outside the sports medicine setting.
Upper limb
- shoulder girdle
- rotator cuff
- long head of biceps tendinopathy/tear
- glenoid labral tear
- adhesive capsulitis
- pectoralis major tear
- osteolysis of the distal clavicle
- quadrilateral space syndrome
- stress fracture/reaction of the proximal humerus
- elbow
- posterior impingement
- epicondylitis
- distal biceps tendon tendinopathy/rupture
- distal triceps tendon tendinopathy/rupture
- olecranon bursitis
- wrist and hand
- intersection syndrome
- de Quervain tenosynovitis
- extensor carpi ulnarnis tendinopathy
- finger pulley injuries
- triangular fibrocartilage complex tear
Thorax
-<li>-<a href="/articles/acromegaly">acromegal</a>y</li>- +<li><a title="Acromegaly" href="/articles/acromegaly">acromegaly</a></li>
-</ul>- +</ul><h5>Thorax</h5><ul>
- +<li><a title="costochondritis" href="/articles/costochondritis">costochondritis</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Sternoclavicular joint dislocation" href="/articles/sternoclavicular-joint-dislocation">sternoclavicular joint injury</a></li>
- +<li><a title="rib stress fracture" href="/articles/rib-stress-fracture">rib stress fracture</a></li>
- +<li><a title="rib tip syndrome" href="/articles/rib-tip-syndrome">rib tip syndrome</a></li>
- +</ul><p> </p>