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Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly

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Budd-Chiari Syndrome

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Abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukocytosis, recent antibiotic use

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C. diff

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Achilles tendon xanthoma

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Familial hypercholesterolemia

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Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC

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Waterhouse-Friedrichsen syndrome (disseminated meningococcemia)

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Anaphylaxis following blood transfusion

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IgA deficiency

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Anterior drawer sign

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ACL tear

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Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints

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Marfan syndrome

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Athlete with polycythemia

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Result of erythropoietin injection

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Back pain, fever, night sweats

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Pott disease

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Bilateral acoustic schwannomas

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Neurofibromatosis type 2

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Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis

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Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)

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Black eschar on face of patient with diabetic ketoacidosis

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Mucor or Rhizopus infection

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Blue sclera

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Osteogenesis imperfecta

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Bluish line on gingiva

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Burton line (lead poisoning)

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Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis

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Paget disease of bone

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Bounding pulses, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing

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Aortic regurgitation

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Butterfly facial rash and Raynaud phenomenon in a young female

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SLE

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Cafe au lait spots, Lisch nodules, cutaneous neurofibromas, pheochromocytomas, optic gliomas

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NF type 1

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Cafe au lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities

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McCune-Albright syndrome

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Calf pseudohypertrophy

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Muscular dystrophy

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Cervical lymphadenopathy, desquamating rash, coronary aneurysm, red conjunctivae and tongue

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Kawasaki disease

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Cherry red spots on macula

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Tay-Sachs (ganglioside accumulation)
Niemann-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation)
Central retinal artery occlusion

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Chest pain on exertion

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Angina

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Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI

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Dressler syndrome (autoimmune post-MI fibrinous pericarditis)

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Chest pain with ST depressions on EKG

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Unstable angina (-troponin)
NSTEMI (+troponin)
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Child uses arms to stand up from squat

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Gowers sign–Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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Child with fever later develops red rash on face that spreads to body

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Slapped cheeks–erythema infectiosum/Fifth disease–parvovirus B19

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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration

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Huntington disease (Autosomal dominant CAG repeat expansion)

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Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications

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Congenital toxoplasmosis

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Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria

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McArdle disease (skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)

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Cold intolerance

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Hypothyroidism

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Conjugate horizontal gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia

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Internuclear ophthalmoplegia

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Continuous machine-like murmur

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PDA (close with indomethacin, prop open with prostaglandins)

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Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition

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Myxedema (pretibial in Graves disease)

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Cutaneous flushing, diarrhea, bronchospasm

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Carcinoid syndrome

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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules in AIDS patient

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Kaposi sarcoma (HHV-8)

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Deep, labored breathing/hyperventilation

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Kussmaul respirations (diabetic ketoacidosis)

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Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea

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Pellagra (niacin deficiency)

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Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism or malnutrition

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Wet beriberi (thiamine deficiency)

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Dog or cat bite resulting in infection

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Pasteurella multocidaSjogren syndrome

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Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis

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Sjogren syndrome

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Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency anemia

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Plummer-Vinson syndrome

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Elastic skin, joint hypermobility, increased bleeding tendency

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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

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Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node

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Virchow node (abdominal metastasis)

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Episodic vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss

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Meniere disease

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Erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells

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Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous)/Sezary syndrome (when it gets into blood)

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Facial muscle spasm upon tapping

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Chvostek sign of hypocalcemia

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Fat, female, forty, fertile

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Cholelithiasis (gallstones)

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Antibiotic treatment for syphilis–>fever, chills, headache, myalgia

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

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Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash

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Measles

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Fever, night sweats, weight loss

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B symptoms of lymphoma

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Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis with abnormal curvature

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Peyronie disease

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Golden brown rings around peripheral cornea

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Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson’s disease)

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Gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilation in a boy

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Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency)

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Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of hands/feet/genitalia

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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome

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Hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, osteoporosis, aseptic necrosis of femur, bone crises

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Gaucher disease

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Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts

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Alport syndrome (mutation in collagen IV)

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Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility

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Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)

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Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, Babinski sign present

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UMN damage

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Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atrophy, fasciculations

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LMN damage

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Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia

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“Blue bloater:” chronic bronchitis

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Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion

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Non-painful: chancre (syphilis)

Painful: chancroid (H. ducreyi)

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Infant with cherry-red macula, hepatosplenomegaly, neurodegeneration

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Niemann-Pick disease

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Infant with cleft lip/palate, microcephaly or holoprosencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia

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Patau syndrome (Trisomy 13)

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Infant with hypoglycemia, hepatomegaly

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Cori disease (debranching enzyme deficiency) or Von Gierke disease (G6P deficiency)

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Jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder

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Courvoisier sign (distal obstruction of biliary tree)

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Bull’s eye rash

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ECM from Ixodes tick carrying borrelia (Lyme disease)

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Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury

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Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)

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Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells

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Bruton’s X-linked agammaglobulinemia

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Mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time

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Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GPIIb/IIIa deficiency–>problems with platelet aggregation)

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Muffled heart sounds, distended neck veins, hypotension

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Beck triad of cardiac tamponade

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Multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted/supernumerary teeth

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Gardner syndrome (type of FAP)

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Infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, exercise intolerance

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Pompe disease

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Neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth

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Erb-Duchenne palsy (C5-C6 injury)

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No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance

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Sheehan syndrome (pituitary infarction)

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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral INO

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Multiple sclerosis

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Painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia

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Cold agglutinin disease (AIHA from mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mono, CLL)

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Painful fingers/toes changing color from blue to white to red with cold or stress

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Raynaud phenomenon

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Painful, raised red lesions on pads of fingers/toes

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Osler nodes (infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition)
"ouch ouch Osler"
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Painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles

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Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis, septic emboli/microabscesses)

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Painless jaundice

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Cancer of pancreatic head obstructing bile duct

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Palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, hematuria

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HS purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)

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Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors

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Periorbital and/or peripheral edema, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia

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Nephrotic syndrome

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Pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation

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“Pink puffer:” emphysema

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Polyuria, renal tubular acidosis type II, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances, hypophosphatemic rickets

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Fanconi syndrome (multiple combined dysfunction of the PCT)

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Pruritic, purple, polygonal planar papules and plaques

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Lichen planus

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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis

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Horner syndrome (sympathetic chain lesion)

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Pupil accommodates but doesn’t react

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Argyll-Robinson pupil (neurosyphilis)

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Rapidly progressive ascending limb weakness following GI/URI

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Guillain-Barre

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Rash on palms and soles

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Coxsackie A, secondary syphilis, RMSF

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Recurrent cold abscesses, unusual eczema, high serum IgE

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Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job syndrome)

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Red currant jelly sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients

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Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia

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Red currant jelly stools

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Intussusception

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Red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola

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Paget disease

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Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs

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Renal cell carcinoma, hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma

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von Hippel-Lindau disease

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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability, shuffling gait

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Parkinson’s

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Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers

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Roth spots (bacterial endocarditis)

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Severe jaundice in neonate

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Crigler-Najjar syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

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Severe RLQ pain with palpation of LLQ

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Rovsing sign (acute appendicitis)

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Severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness

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McBurney sign (acute appendicitis)

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Short stature, cafe au lait spots, thumb/radial defects, increased incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia

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Fanconi anemia (loss of DNA crosslink repair)

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Single palmar crease

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Down syndrome (Trisomy 21)

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Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility

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Kartagener syndrome

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Skin hyperpigmentation, hypotension, fatigue

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Primary adrenal insufficiency (leads to increased ACTH and MSH production)

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Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys

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Becker muscular dystrophy

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Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers

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Koplik spots (measles, rubeola virus)

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Smooth, moist, painless, wart-like white lesions on genitals

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Condylomata lata (secondary syphilis)

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Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails

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Bacterial endocarditis

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Strawberry tongue

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Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease

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Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema

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Turner syndrome

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Swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petechiae

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Scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency–>can’t hydroxylate proline and lysine for collagen synthesis)

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Swollen, hard, painful finger joints

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Osteoarthritis
Bouchard nodes on PIP
Heberden nodes on DIP (old Mrs Heberden lives far away)

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Crescendo-decrescendo systolic ejection murmur

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Aortic stenosis

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Telangiectasias, recurrent epistaxis, skin discoloration, AVM, GI bleeding, hematuria

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Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome

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Thyroid and PTH tumors, pheochromocytoma

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MEN 2A syndrome (RET mutation)

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Thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis

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MEB 2B (RET mutation)

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Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape

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Babinski sign (UMN lesion)

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Unilateral facial drooping INVOLVING forehead

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LMN CN VII lesion

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Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male

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Reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27 (Reiter’s syndrome)

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Vascular birthmark (port-wine stain) of the face

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Nevus flammeus

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Vomiting blood following gastroesophageal laceration

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Mallory-Weiss syndrome

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Weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy

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Whipple disease

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Worst headache of my life

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Gynecomastia+peptic ulcer disease

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Cimetidine

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