Hands

This chapter contains practice questions based on a broad range of orthopaedic topics that may be encountered within the ‘Hand & Paediatrics’ station of the FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics) viva examination. The topics covered include a combination of common trauma and elective conditions. Trauma topics include: scaphoid fractures, fight-bite, perilunate dislocations, crush injuries, ligament injuries, and hamate fractures. Elective topics include: Dupuytren’s disease, rheumatoid hands, ganglion cysts, Kienböck’s disease, and de Quervain’s syndrome. Some basic hand anatomy is also touched upon in this chapter.