Free practice question 20 of 20 · Shoulder & elbow
An original single best answer question in the style of the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Section 1 paper, with the answer and a referenced explanation. Pick an answer to reveal it, then rate how sure you were.
A 45-year-old woman wakes with excruciating shoulder pain and cannot move the arm. She is afebrile with normal inflammatory markers. Radiographs show a fluffy, ill-defined, cloud-like calcific deposit in supraspinatus that is fainter than the dense deposit seen on films six months earlier.
Which phase of calcific tendinitis does this represent?
Topic guide
Shoulder & elbow: what the exam tests
Syllabus coverage, high-yield themes and the common traps.
Interactive 3D
Shoulder & rotator cuff
The right shoulder from behind: the scapula, clavicle and humerus with supraspinatus, infraspinatus and teres minor inserting on the greater tuberosity. Subscapularis lies on the front of the scapula.
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