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what's the diagnosis thumbnail case 205 Case 205: 49 year old woman with progressive ulnar sided pain

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Case 204: 18-year-old boy with right shoulder/chest wall pain following weight lifting/bench press
Case 203: 19 year old boy with long standing progressive and global left hand weakness
Case 202: 74 year old man with increasing back pain
Case 201: 60 year-old woman with long standing elbow pain and limited range of motion
Case 200: 14 year-old boy with long-standing hand deformity
Case 199: 53 year old man with increasing knee pain
Case 198: 27 year old man with elbow pain
Case 197: 31 year old man with soft tissue prominence s/p surgery one year prior
Case 196: 32 year old man recently injury while playing basketball. Surgery 14 years prior.
Case 195: 36 year old woman with incidental finding.
Case 194: 55 year old man with post-operative loss of motor function.
Case 193: 26-year-old professional squash player with right-sided neck pain.
Case 192: 50 year old man for preoperative assessment prior to knee arthroplasty.
Case 191: 71 year old man with surgery performed in 2022. Now with sensation of instability about the left shoulder.
Case 190: 47 year old man with mass for 2 years. Radiating pain especially with palpating the mass. Now walking with a limp and difficulty performing activities of daily living. Remote trauma about 15 years ago.
Case 189: 59 year old woman s/p arthroplasty 1 month prior and recent fall down stairs
Case 188: 30 year old man with recent football injury
Case 187: 45 year old man with pain of multiple joints
Case 186: 24 year old man with wrist pain following a fall 3 weeks prior
Case 185: 28 year old man with recent injury playing basketball
Case 184: 37-year-old man with increasing thigh pain
Case 183: 74 year old woman with increasing knee pain the last 3-4 months
Case 182: 85 year old man with lower thoracic back pain
Case 181: 16 year old male patient with ongoing right hip pain.
Case 180: 48-year-old man with left knee pain after jumping exercise.
Case 179: 19-year-old baseball pitcher with right shoulder pain.
Case 178: Different than the other case presentations, shown will be 3 cases of the same diagnosis.
Case 177: Two cases with the same diagnosis. A 35 and a 25-year-old man with chronic wrist pain.
Case 176: 64-year-old man with left hip pain.
Case 175: 16-year-old boy with recent trauma.
Case 174: 54-year-old man with 2 weeks of severe left sided neck pain.
Case 173: 8-year-old boy with noticeable limb deformity.
Case 172: 48-year-old woman with increasing wrist pain.
Case 171: 87-year-old man s/p THA 2005 with increasing pain. S/p a fall 1.5 years ago.
Case 170: 27-year-old with trauma 2 months ago.
Case 169: 15-year-old boy with arm pain following increased activity at summer work outs.
Case 168: 52-year-old woman with 3 months of right wrist pain.
Case 167: 45-year-old woman with lateral ankle pain.
Case 166: 69-year-old man with 10 weeks of severe right shoulder/axillary pain.
Case 165: 19-year-old man with increasing size of hand mass.
Case 164: 7-year-old girl with left foot pain with activity.
Case 163: 58-year-old man with prior trauma. Now with inability to fully extend and intermittent locking.
Case 162: 21-year-old man with history of prior trauma, pin fixation, and removal of pins.
Case 161: 13-year-old boy with recent trauma while playing sports. Now, with increasing right shoulder pain.
Case 160: 40-year-old woman with THA in 2010. Two weeks ago picked up a bench and felt pain. Increasing pain and squeaking about the right hip since that time.
Case 159: 66-year-old man with persistent anterior hip pain following THA at an outside institution.
Case 158: 23-year-old minor league baseball player with pain about the left sided ribs/abdominal wall.
Case 157: 37-year-old man with multiple sites of pain. Further history withheld.
Case 156: 21-year-old man with pain after recently playing basketball.
Case 155: 34-year-old man with increasing left arm pain and morning stiffness. Right arm with similar but not as prominent symptoms.
Case 154: 65-year-old woman with progressive gait disturbance.
Case 153: 41-year-old woman with long standing low back pain.
Case 152: 54-year-old woman with neck pain radiating to the shoulders and fingers.
Case 151: 47-year-old woman with hindfoot pain. Incidental "mass" identified.
Case 150: 49-year-old woman with pain. history of breast cancer and unspecified inflammatory process.
Case 149: 71-year-old woman with long standing pain.
Case 148: 55-year-old man status post TKA 10 years ago with recent onset of shifting sensation of the leg after playing tennis. Subsequent swelling and tight sensation.
Case 147: 12-year-old boy with recent :jamming injury" of the right hand/fingers. Lateral and magnified lateral views of the small finger.
Case 146: 60-year-old woman with multiple prior surgeries. Persistent pain and weakness of the right shoulder.
Case 145: 17-year-old woman with non contact injury 3 weeks ago.
Case 144: 47-year-old woman with recent trauma and now medial sided foot pain. History of prior surgery is not relevant.
Case 143: Newborn with foot deformity noted on physical exam (Exam is 5/23/18 and DOB is 5/20/18).
Case 142: 72-year-old man with increasing right leg pain.
Case 141: 70-year-old woman with significant past medical history being withheld. Please note this case is focusing on the overall bony architecture/findings of the pelvis and is not focused on the hip arthroplasties.
Case 140: 34-year-old woman with progressive lateral sided pain. Equivocal for lower extremity weakness.
Case 139: 32-year-old female, avid runner with six weeks of lateral knee pain. Concern for stress fracture.
Case 138: 23-year-old man with pain that has been increasing and increases with activity.
Case 137: 55-year-old man with 3 months of lateral foot pain.
Case 136: 58-year-old woman with six months of progressing medial and arch pain.
Case 135: 72-year-old man with TKA performed 5 years ago with recent onset of knee pain.
Case 134: 40-year-old woman with low back pain. Other pertinent history withheld.
Case 133: 35-year-old man with long-standing dorsal wrist pain.
Case 132: 64-year-old man scheduled for RIGHT knee replacement with recent onset of two weeks of LEFT knee pain.
Case 131: 77-year-old man with increasing right knee pain and increasing size of mass of the popliteal region.
Case 130: 54-year-old woman with nearly two years of wrist pain.
Case 129: 81-year-old woman s/p reverse total shoulder arthroplasty 9 years prior. Moderate pain and mild to moderate limitation of function.
Case 128: 5-day-old male baby with noted left leg deformity.
Case 127: 73-year-old man with increasing S1 radicular symptoms and abdominal pain.
Case 126: 16-year-old woman with 3 weeks of non-traumatic, lateral knee pain.
Case 125: 48-year-old male with longstanding, intermittent left upper extremity symptoms.
Case 124: 42-year-old man with recent trauma.
Case 123: 75-year-old woman with 3 years of a left thigh mass. Questionable progression in size.
Case 122: 63-year-old male with painful mass of the index finger.
Case 121: 33-year-old man with 3 months of left hip pain. Pain is aggravated by activity.
Case 120: 37-year-old man with six years of incapacitating pain and now wheelchair bound.
Case 119: 33-year-old man with recent trauma.
Case 118: 42-year-old woman with recent skiing injury.
Case 117: 52-year-old man with recent trauma and left shoulder pain.
Case 116: 36-year-old woman with left shoulder pain.
Case 115: 57-year-old man with right THA performed at an outside institution 10 years ago. Increase in pain particularly for the last 2 years and increased serum cobalt level.
Case 114: 44-year-old man with 3-5 years of dull, aching pain.
Case 113: 15-year-old girl with two years of knee pain that is increasing and exacerbated with running.
Case 112: 44-year-old man with long-standing inability to straighten his legs. Further history withheld.
Case 111: 46-year-old man with surgery 13 years ago. Two days ago felt a pop with sports.
Case 110: For this case no individual history is provided. This case represents a collection of multiple patients with the same underlying diagnosis.
Case 109: 66-year-old man s/p bilateral TKA 6 weeks ago doing fine until recently bent down and now with limited motion of the left knee
Case 108: 59-year-old man with fall 12 days prior
Case 107: 51-year-old man without significant past medical history and now with leg pain with activity/intermittent claudation
Case 106: 39-year-old man with increasing size of mass
Case 105: 37-year-old man with recent onset of sudden pain while opening a jar.
Case 104: 14-year-old girl with increasing forefoot pain. No recent episode of trauma.
Case 103: 17-year-old man with low back pain extending into the right buttock.
Case 102: History: 53-year-old woman with long-standing mass of the right foot.
Case 101: 62-year-old woman with progressive, long standing swelling of small finger, right hand. 
Case 100: 19-year-old man with two months of intermittent medial pain after playing lacrosse.
Case 99: 56-year-old woman with progressive foot pain.
Case 98: 71-year-old woman with recent trauma and difficulty with wrist/hand motion.
Case 97: 15-year-old boy with shoulder injury after a fall.
Case 96: 65-year-old-woman with recent right total hip arthroplasty.
Case 95: 32-year-old woman with long-standing mass of the right hand.
Case 94: 63-year-old man with an arm injury due to a fall one month prior.
Case 93: 8-year-old girl with known diagnosis and recent right-sided low-back and hip pain.
Case 92: 35-year-old woman with diffuse pain, but increasing in the right hip.
Case 91: 80-year-old woman with known severe bilateral osteoarthritis. Recent aspiration of left knee yielded a large amount of bloody fluid.
Case 90: 28 year old professional football player with recent right foot injury.
Case 89: 11 year old boy with multiple sites of joint pain. Further history withheld.
Case 88: 69 year-old man status post recent unicompartmental arthroplasty.
Case 87: 20-year-old male, avid runner with bilateral thigh pain but left greater than right.
Case 86: 59-year-old man with back and neck pain and one episode of lower extremity weakness.
Case 85: 75-year-old woman with right anterior knee and lower extremity pain.
Case 84: 43 year-old man with elbow pain after working out.
Case 83: 9-year-old girl with ankle pain following twisting injury 3 weeks prior.
Case 82: 33-year-old man with trauma 3 months ago and now with inability to flex at the DIP.
Case 81: 44-year-old man with increasing loss of range of motion.
Case 80: 58-year-old man with THA done 2.5 years now with audible squeaking with walking.
Case 79: 20-year-old man with increasing size of left forefoot mass.
Case 78: 75-year-old man with lumbar surgery performed at an outside facility in 1/2014. Now with low back pain, different than prior to previous procedure.
Case 77: 77-year-old man with left TKA seven years prior. New onset pain and sensation of instability after recent fall in May 2014.
Case 76: 3 year old man with fall from a ladder.
Case 75: 65-year-old man with rotator cuff surgery in 1/2014 without complaints until 4/2014 when he develops weakness and loss of range of motion.
Case 74: 23-year-old female professional basketball player with injury during practice during a cutting maneuver.
Case 73: 35-year-old man with football injury six weeks prior and now with pain at the PIP of the fifth digit.
Case 72: 61 y/o man with TKA performed 2011 with subsequent partial synovectomy and wash out for infection in November 2013.
Case 71: 75-year-old woman with six weeks of increasing, severe hip pain. No trauma.
Case 70: 38-year-old man with fall two days prior while hiking with persistent pain.
Case 69: 68-year-old man with prior lumbar surgery now with persistent low back pain and left lower extremity radicular symptoms.
Case 68: 39-year-old man with recent trauma.
Case 67: 55-year-old woman with five months of left hip pain and previous treatment for gynecologic malignancy.
Case 66: 30-year-old woman with 18 months of pelvic pain. No trauma or history of inflammatory arthropathy. Other history withheld.
Case 65: 42-year-old man with mid to upper back pain, more so along the right side and with frequent "soreness and tightness".
Case 64: 60-year-old man one year status post lumbar surgery with five weeks of increasing low back, groin, and thigh pain.
Case 63: 70-year-old woman with left shoulder pain for 1 year
Case 62: 47-year-old professional mixed martial artist with 3 months of left lower rib pain
Case 61: 6-year-old with left elbow pain
Case 60: 8-year-old boy with right arm pain after minor trauma. All images or MR exam are from 11/13/12
Case 59: 63-year-old man with asymptomatic right sided mass (initial images are from 2006 with a follow up from 2009)
Case 58: 42-year-old with three years of finger pain
Case 57: 12-year-old boy with right leg pain
Case 56: 39-year-old woman with left hip pain following multiple previous surgeries
Case 55: 39-year-old man with nonspecific right shoulder pain
Case 54: 15-year-old woman with mass and pain along the ulnar aspect of the elbow
Case 53:  15-year-old with low back pain with multiple activities
Case 52:  33-year-old injured their knee skiing three days ago
Case 51: 25-year-old man with recent trauma
Case 50: 53-year-old woman with upper extremity pain for six months
Case 49:  68-year-old man with long standing knee pain
Case 48:  8-year-old girl with history of limping
Case 47: 2-year-old  girl referred from outside institution for evaluation
Case 46: 45-year-old man with pain about the pubis, right greater than left
Case 45: 10-year-old boy with recent trauma to left hip
Case 44: 17-year-old man with recent knee trauma
Case 43: 82-year-old man with long standing bilateral hip pain. Patient with prior cervical spine surgery and no history of previous trauma.
Case 42: 78-year-old woman with progressive left hip and thigh pain after THR performed 3 years ago
Case 41: 45-year-old man with recent trauma to the ankle
Case 40: 51-year-old woman with recent fall on the elbow
Case 39: 60-year-old woman with right hip pain an d limp
Case 38: 63-year-old man with right knee and progressive left hand pain
Case 37: 52-year-old man with increasing right shoulder pain
Case 36: 62-year-old woman with new onset right hand pain but with a history of multiple sites of joint pain
Case 35: 14y/o with several months of hip pain questionably related to sports
Case 34: 38-year-old woman with 6 months of wrist pain following sports injury
Case 33: 46-year-old man with recent weight lifting injury and deformity on exam.
Case 32: 25-year-old man with right hip and groin pain.
Case 31: 32-year-old woman runner with increasing right ankle pain
Case 30: 62-year-old man with increasing right lower extremity pain
Case 29: 66-year-old woman with increasing left hip pain.
Case 28: 3 men ages 35-40 with lifting injuries.
Case 27: 80-year-old woman 2 years status post left THR with fall 2.5 weeks ago and radiating left low back pain.
Case 26: 45-year-old woman with long standing hip pain.
Case 25: 19-year-old man with long standing elbow pain.
Case 24: 55-year-old man with bilateral knee pain.
Case 23: 50-year-old woman with long standing wrist pain.
Case 22: 43-year-old man with 1 year of knee pain.
Case 21: 35-year-old woman with increasing left foot pain.
Case 20: 30-year-old female with long standing history of decreased range of motion in multiple joints.
Case 19: 25-year-old man with 4 years of knee pain and clicking sensation.
Case 18: 13-year-old boy with left ankle pain and limp. Notes mild discomfort of the right ankle.
Case 17: 8-year-old with right knee pain following minor trauma.
Case 16: 42-year-old status post left below knee amputation 2 years prior with persistent pain.
Case 15: 61-year-old man with recent fall in the shower. 
Case 14: 87-year-old woman with left hip pain and states no recent trauma. 
Case 13: 13-year-old boy with elevated ESR and difficulty bearing weight on right foot. 
Case 12: 57-year-old man with multiple medical problems and multiple sites of pain. 
Case 11: 82-year-old woman with diffuse pelvic pain.
Case 10: 53-year-old man with history of prostate cancer and nonspecific low back pain.
Case 9: 62-year-old man, status: post fall from a curb.
Case 8: 60-year-old man with lateral, right sided knee pain.
Case 7: 65-year-old man with increasing right elbow pain.
Case 6: 22-year-old woman with lower extremity pain and weakness. Previous history of shortness of breath but not at the present.
Case 5: 52-year-old woman with low back pain.
Case 4: 65-year-old man with thoracolumbar pain presents in January 2005.
Case 3: 17-year-old male with right hip pain.
Case 2: 45-year-old woman presents with long standing left knee pain.
Radiographs were obtained in 2/18 and 9/5/06.
Case 1: 13-year-old boy presents with increasing right calf mass.
Radiographs of the right tibia were obtained.