Miscellaneous
High-yield miscellaneous topics for USMLE Step 2 CK, within Musculoskeletal. Below are the 44 topics this area covers, plus a worked example showing the trap-aware approach 280Bound uses.
Topics in Miscellaneous
- Adhesive capsulitis
- Autoinflammatory diseases (including familial Mediterranean fever)
- Behçet disease
- Carpal tunnel syndrome and median nerve compression
- Cervical spine clearance
- Clostridial myonecrosis
- Common adult foot deformities
- Congenital clubfoot (congenital talipes equinovarus)
- De Quervain tendinopathy
- Dupuytren contracture
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)
- Elbow tendinopathy
- Evaluation of pediatric hip pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Ganglion cyst
- Genu valgum and varum
- Giant cell (temporal) arteritis
- Giant cell tumor
- Growing pains
- Heel pain
- Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: Dermatomyositis and polymyositis
- Infections of the hand
- Knee trauma
- Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
- Limb development disorders
- Lumbosacral plexus
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Mitochondrial myopathies
- Nonaccidental trauma in children
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Overuse injuries of the knee
- Pediatric spinal deformities: scoliosis, kyphosis, and lordosis
- Plantar fasciitis
- Popliteal (Baker) cyst
- Radial head subluxation
- Raynaud phenomenon
- Short stature
- Sjögren disease
- Skeletal muscle relaxants: antispastic and spasmolytic agents
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Spinal epidural abscess
- Transient synovitis
- Traumatic hand and finger injuries
- Traumatic nail injuries
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