Classical Clinical Presentations Flashcards
Abdominal pain, blue gum line and constipation
Lead poinosing
Beefy-red tongue and fatigue
Vitamin B12 deficiency
Cafe-au-lait spots and skin nodules
Neurfibromatosis Type 1
Deep labored breathing and acetone smell on breath
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Abdominal pain and tenderness in the right iliac fossa
Appendicitis
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, erythema nodosum
Sarcoidosis
Calf pseudohypertrophy and a positive Gower sign
Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy
Dermatitis, diarrhea and dimentia
Pellagra (B3 deficiency)
Elastic skin with hypermobile joints
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Fair, fat fertile woman over 40 with abdominal pain
Cholecystitis
Abdominal pain following and alcoholic binge
Pancreatitis
Bilateral ptosis, diplopia, and difficulty chewing in female
Myasthenia Gravis
Cape-like distribution of loss of pain
Syringomyelia
Enlarged nerves and anesthetic hypopigmented rashes
Leprosy
Fever, cough, chest pain in a parrot breeder
Bird fancier’s disease
Abdominal pain in right iliac fossa and diarrhea
Crohn’s disease
Bitot’s spots in the eye
Vitamin A deficiency
Bladder or bowel control problems
Cauda Equina syndrome
Caput Medusa
Cirrhosis with portal hypertension
Dry eyes, dry mouth and arthritis
Sjogren’s syndrome
Dysphagia, glossitis and iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Abdominal pain in the left iliac fossa, blood in stool, young female
Ulcerative colitis
Bleeding swollen gums
Scurvy
Carditis, chorea, polyarthritis and subcutaneous nodules
Rheumatic fever
Dyspepsia worse with eating food
Gastric type of peptic ulcer disease
Abdominal pain in left iliac fossa, bloood in stool, older male
Diverticulitis
Blue lips, swollen ankles, and dyspnea
Chronic Bronchitis
Blue sclera and frequent fractures as an infant
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Casal’s necklace
Pellagra (vitamin B3 deficiency)
Painful, pale, cold fingers and toes
Raynaud’s syndrome
Fever, headache and skin rash on wrists and feet
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (ricket ricket)
Galactorrhea and amenorreha
Prolactinoma
Haygarth’s nodes
Rheumatoid arthritis
Indurated painless penile lesion
Primary syphilis
Jaundice, chills and fever
Ascending cholangitis
Large spatulate hands, protruding jaw
Acromegaly
Koilonychia and pale mucous membranes
Iron deficiency anemia
Magenta colored tongue
Vitamin B12 deficiency
Newborn with paralyzed arm after difficult vertex delivery
Erb-Duchenne palsy
Obesity, hirsutism and irregular periods
Polycystic Ovarian syndrome
Painful fingers, wrists bilaterally with morning stiffnesss greater than 1 hour
Rheumatoid arthritis
Fever, conjunctivitis, coryza and a fine rash on trunk
Measles
Gumma
Tertiary syphilis
Heartburn worse on lying down after meals
GERD
Infant with red hair and swollen abdomen
Kwashiorkor
Jaundice, ascites and firm, non-tender hepatomegaly
Cirrhosis
Low back pain, bamboo spine in young adult male
Ankylosing spondylitis
Male child with recurrent infection and no B-cells
Bruton’s disease
Night blindness, dry eyes and dry skin
Vitamin A deficiency
Osler nodes, Janeway nodules or Roth spots
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Painful hip with a limp in a young child
Legg-Calve-Perthe disease
Fever, neck stiffness and headache
Meningitis
Gottron’s papules and heliotrope eyelids
Dermatomyositis
Heat intolerace, fine tremors, weight loss or exophthalmos
Hyperthyroidism
Infant with microcephaly and rocker-bottom feet
Trisomy 18, Edwards syndrome
Jaundice with tender hepatomegaly
Hepatitis
Loss of outer 1/3 of eyebrows and slow reflexes
Hypothyroidism
Koplik spots and fever followed by a fine maculopapular rash
Measels
Mental retardation, large scrotal tongue, umbilical hernia
Trisomy 21 Downs syndrome
Newborn with claw hand after difficult breech delivery
Klumpke’s palsy
Painful hip with a limp in an overweight teenager
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
Fever, night sweats, weight loss, cough or hemoptysis
Tuberculosis
Gout and self mutilation in a child due to pain insensitivity
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
Heberden’s and Bouchard’s nodes
Osteoarthritis
Hematemesis following protracted vomiting and retching
Mallory Weiss syndrome