ENT Flashcards
Acute onset severe eye pain, photophobia, tearing and blurred vision in one eye. Flouriscine dye shows fern like lines on cornea.
Herpes Keratitis
Elderly patient with acute onset severe eye pain with headache, nausea, haloes around lights, and decreased vision. Pupils have decreased reactivity and cornea appears cloudy.
Acute Angle closure glaucoma
Swollen eye lid with proptosis, eye pain with movement.
Orbital cellulitis
Sudden onset floaters with curtain sign and photopsia
Retinal detachment
Cauliflower like gross with foul smelling ear discharge
Cholsteatoma- refer to otolaryngologist
Presbyopia is caused by what?
Affects what vision type first?
- stiffening of the lenses- inability to accomodate
- near vision is affected
What sinuses are present at birth
Ethmoid and maxillary
When do frontal sinuses develop?
When are all sinuses developed?
Frontal- 5yrs
Sphenoid - last = by 12 yrs
White to light gray patch on tongue or floor of the mouth or inside cheek
Leukoplakia- rule out oral cancer
Painful shallow ulcers on soft tissue of mouth
Apthous ulcer/ stomatitis aka canker sores
- resolve 7-10 days
- treat symptoms- cause unknown
Vermilion border-
Oral comissure-
Edge of lips
Corner of lips
Salivary glands
Parotid, submandibular, sublingual
Painless boney protuberance midline on the hard palate
Torus Palatinus = benign
Tongue surface has a map like appearance with patches that move day to day
Geographic tongue = benign
Cluster of small sized read papules with white centres inside the cheeks by the lower molars
Kopliks spots
= measles
Hairy leukoplakia associated with what?
HIV
-caused by EBV infx of tongue
Hyperopia
Far sightedness
Myopia
Near sightedness
Parts of the ear affected by conductive hearing loss?
Outer & middle
Parts of the ear affected in sensorineural hearing loss?
Inner ear or CN 8
Example of sensorineural hearing loss
Ménière’s disease, presbycusis
Antibiotic eardrops with ruptured Tympanic membrane
Ofloxacin
Classes of Ototoxic medications- x 7
Abx = tetracyclines + macrolides + aminoglycosides
Anti- malarials + anti- neoplastics + anti-inflammatory
Loop diuretics
Rinne test results in Conductive & Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Conductive - BC> AC
SN- AC > BC