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infant w/ failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, and neurodegeneration

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Niemann-Pick disease

genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency

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infant w/ hypoglycemia, failure to thrive and hepatomegaly

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Cori’s disease

debranching enzyme deficiency

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infant w/ microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands and structural heart defect

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Edward’s syndrome

trisomy 18

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jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder

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Courvoisier’s sign

distal obstruction of biliary tree

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large rash w/ bull’s eye appearance

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erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite

Lyme disease: Borrelia

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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 disease

X-linked agammaglobulinemia

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mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time

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Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia

defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GPIIb/IIIa

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muffled heart sounds, distended neck veins, hypotension

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beck’s triad of cardiac tamponade

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

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Gardner’s syndrome (subtype of FAP)

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myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance

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Pompe’s disease

lysosomal alpha-1,4-glucosidase deficiency

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neonate w/ arm paralysis following difficult birth

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Erb-Duchenne palsy

(superior trunk [C5-C6] brachial plexus injury: “waiter’s tip”

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no lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance

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Sheehan’s syndrome

pituitary infarction

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nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia

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multiple sclerosis

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oscillating slow/fast breathing

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Cheyne-Stokes respirations

central apnea in CHF or increase intracranial pressure

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painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia

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cold agglutinin disease

AI hemolytic anemia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis

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painful, pale, cole fingers/toes

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Raynaud’s phenomenon

vasospasm in extremities

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painful, raised red lesions on pad of fingers/toes

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Osler’s node

infective endocarditis, septic emboli/microabscesses

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painful jaundice

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cancer of pancreatic head obstructing bile duct

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palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abdominal pain (child), hematuria

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Henoch-Schonlein purpura

IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys

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pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors

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MEN I (autosomal dominant)

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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: centriacinar [smoking],
panacinar=>alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

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

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Fanconi’s syndrome

proximal tubular reabsorption defect

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positive anterior drawer sign

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ACL injury

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pruritic, purple, polygonal planar papules, plaques (6 Ps)

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Lichen planus

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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis

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Horner’s syndrome

sympathetic chain lesion

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pupil accommodates but does not react

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Argyll Robertson pupil

neurosyphilis

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rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends following GI/URI

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Guillain Barre syndrome

acute AI inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

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rash on palms and soles

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Coxsackie A, 2’ syphilis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE

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Hyper-IgE syndrome

Job’s syndrome: neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality

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Red “currant jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients

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Klebsiella pneumoniae

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Red “currant jelly” stools

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acute mesenteric ischemia (adults);

intussusception (infant up to 2y/o)

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red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola

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Paget’s disease of breast

represents underlying neoplasm

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red urine in morning, fragile RBCs

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paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

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renal cell CA (bilateral), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma

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von Hippel-Lindau disease

dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation

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resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability

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Parkinson’s disease

nigrostriatal dopamine depletion

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retinal hemorrhages w/ pale centers

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Roth’s spots

bacterial endocarditis

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sever jaundice in neonate

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Crigler-Najjar syndrome

congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

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severe RLQ pain w/ palpation of LLQ

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Rovsing’s sign

acute appendicitis

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severe RLQ pain w/ rebound tenderness

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McBurney;s sign

appendicitis

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short stature, increase incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia

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Fanconi’s anemia

genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair; often to AML

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single palmar crease

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Simian crease

Down syndrome

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situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility

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Kartagener’s syndrome

dynein arm defect affecting cilia

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skin hyperpigmentation, hypotension, fatigue

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Addison’s disease

1’ adrenocortical insufficiency causes increase in ACTH and increase alpha-MSH production

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slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys

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Becker’s muscular dystrophy

X-linked missense mutation in dystrophin => less severe than Duchenne’s

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small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa w/ blue-white centers

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koplik spots

measles; rubeola virus

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smooth, flat, moist, painless white lesions on genitals

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condylomata lata

2’ 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, toxic shock syndrome

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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

45, XO

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sudden swollen/painful big toe joint, tophi

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Gout/podagra

hyperuricemia

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swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin

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Scurvy

vit C deficiency: cannot hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis

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swollen, hard, painful finger joints

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osteoarthritis
(osteophyties on PIP [Bouchard’s nodes],
DIP [Heberden’s nodes])

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systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)

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Aortic valve stenosis

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thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma

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MEN 2A (AD ret mutation)

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thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis

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MEN 2B (AD 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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Facial nerve

LMN CN 7 palsy

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urethritis, conjuctivitis, arthritis in a male

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reactive arthritis assoc w/ HLA-B27

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vascular birthmark (port-wine stain)

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Hemangioma

benign, but assoc w/ Sturge-Weber syndrome

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vomiting blood following gastroesophageal lacerations

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Mallory-Weiss syndrome

alcoholic and bulimic patients

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weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy

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Whipple’s disease

tropheryma whipplei

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worst headache of my life

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subarachnoid hemorrhage