Oral Exam Questions: Perilunate Injuries and Arm Reconstruction

Perilunate Injuries: In Brief

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Perilunate injuries result from high-energy trauma to the carpus. Early diagnosis and treatment is essential to optimizing outcome. Initial management should consist of closed reduction of any carpal malalignment. Subsequent open reduction with percutaneous pinning or internal screw fixation and soft tissue repair i...

Perilunate injuries: diagnosis and treatment.

Perilunate injuries are severe disruptions of the carpus, which present a formidable challenge to the treating physician. Accurate recognition of the pattern of injury is not always straightforward. The injury can propagate through ligaments and/or bone, creating multiple variations of a basic injury pattern. Posteroanterior and lateral radiographs will depict a perilunate injury, but additiona...

Sample Quiz and Exam Questions

Exam 1 Questions

Note: All problems are from Hogg, McKean, and Craig (7th Ed.). have a distribution that is b(n, p). a) Prove that Y n /n converges in probability to p. This result is one form of the week law of large numbers.

Probability Exam Questions with Solutions

The exam questions accompany the basic probability material in the chapters 7-14 of my textbook Understanding Probability, third edition, Cambridge University Press, 2012. The simulation-based chapters 1-6 of the book present many probability applications from everyday life to help the beginning student develop a feel for probabilities. Moreover, the book gives an introduction to discrete-time ...