40-year-old patient having arthritis of PIP and DIP along with carpometacarpal joint of thumb and sparing of wrist and metacarpophalangeal joint, most likely diagnosis is
Aosteoarthritis
Bpseudo gout
Cpsoriatic arthritis
Drheumatoid arthritis
Which of the following statements about rheumatoid arthritis is false?
AMore common in females
BElevated CRP
CAssociated with Fetty's syndrome
DAsymmetrical joint involvement
A 22-year-old male medical student was seen in the emergency department with a complaint of pain in his hand. He confessed that he had hit a vending machine in the hospital when he did not receive his soft drink after inserting money twice. The medial side of the dorsum of the hand was quite swollen, and one of his knuckles could not be seen when he "made a fist." The physician made a diagnosis of a "boxer's fracture." What was the nature of the impatient student's injury?
AColles' fracture of the radius
BFracture of the styloid process of the ulna
CSmith's fracture of the radius
DFracture of the neck of the fifth metacarpal
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