Endocrine Flashcards
Tanned skin without being on holiday
Addisons
Increased shoe size
Spade hands
Wedding ring too tight
Acronegaly
Signs of hyperthyroidism plus any eye changes, gritty eyes
Smooth velvety skin
Graves disease
Moon Face Proximal weakness Stretch marks Buffalo hump Abdo fat
Cushings syndrome
Ketones on breath like pear drops
DKA
Deep laboured breathing
Metabolic acidosis like DKA
Orphan Annie nuclei
Papillary thyroid cancer
Bone pain
Stones -kidney
Psychiatric problems
Constipation
( bones stones groans and moans)
Hypercalcaemia
Psammoma bodies
Found in papillary thyroid cancers
Butterfly rash
SLE
Heat intolerance and palpitations
Hyperthyroidism
Cold intolerance and weight gain
Hypothyroidism
Anosmia and isolated GnRH deficiency
Kallmans syndrome
Trousseua sign
Chvostek sign
QT prolongation
Hypocalcaemia
Acute management of hypoglycaemia
IV calcium gluconate ( 10ml of 10% calcium gluconate in 50 %dextrose or salineb)