ENT Flashcards
What is your diagnosis and course of treatment?
Dx: Herpes Zoster reactivation
Rx: antivirals (Acyclovir)
What is the most common head and neck malignancy?
Squamous Cell Carcinoma (85% of all H&N cancers)
- bilat nasal obstruction
- purulent rhinorrhea
- facial pain
What’s your diagnosis?
Acute Sinusitis
What are the criterias for bacterial sinusitis?
- > 2 PODS
- 7 days
After how much time of DYSPHONIA you consider a serious lesion?
4 weeks
What is your diagnosis and course of treatment?
Dx: Myringitis = TM inflammation
Rx:
- Clarithromycin
- Puncture of the bullae
- fever
- sore throat
- odynophagia
- trismus
What’s your diagnosis?
Peritonsillar Abscess
What do you suspect if there is a foul-smelling otorrhoea?
Cholesteatoma (possibly a tumour)
What is the difference between Cellulitis and Perichondritis?
Cellulitis involves the whole pinna and perichondritis spares the lobule
- unilat nasal obstruction
- unilat epistaxis
- eye symptoms
What’s your diagnosis?
Sinonasal tumor
What is your diagnosis and course of treatment?
Dx: Perichondritis
Rx: Abx Pseudomonal coverage
What pathologies can cause ESOPHAGEAL phase dysphagia?
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Infection (candida)
- Rings and webs
- Carcinoma
- Vascular anomalies
- Extrinsic masses
What do you suspect in a nasal polyp/blood-stained rhinorrhoea?
Tumour
- sudden vertigo x secs
- nausea, vomiting
- no HL
- no CNS SSx
What’s your diagnosis?
Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo
What can be the cause of a secondary otalgia?
- TMJ
- Tube (Eustachian)
- Teeth
- Tongue
- Tonsil
- Throat
- Thyroid
- Trachea, Thorax
- Tendons
- Tics (glossopharyngeal, trigeminal neuralgia)
- Temporal arthritis
What clinical findings suggest a bacterial etiology of a neck mass?
- Warmth or erythema of the overlying skin, swelling or tenderness to palpation of the mass
- Fever, tachycardia, or other systemic signs of infection
- Rhinorrhea, odynophagia, otalgia, odontalgia, or other symptoms of a head and neck infection
Is it normal to loose smell with age?
YES 75% loss of smell by age 80 is normal
What are the causes of central vertigo?
- Stroke
- Posterior circulation: vertebral, basilar, anterior inferior cerebellar artery
- Tumors (cerebellum and 4th ventricle)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Myelin plaques in the white matter of the brain
- Migraines
How do we manage a nose bleed?
- Pressure over nasal ala x 10 minutes
- Evacuate clots
- Identify source
- Topical vasoconstrictor and anesthetic
- Reverse anticoagulation, lower BP
What do you suspect if someone has a hoarse voice for more than 3 weeks?
Tumour
What are the differential diagnosis of Anosmia/Hyposmia (loss or decreased smell)?
- Congenital
- Obstructive nasal disease (23%)
- Idiopathic (21%)
- Postinfectious (19%)
- Head Trauma (15%)
- Neurologic – Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis
- Psychogenic (schizophrenia)
- Toxins/medications (3%)
- Aging
If you have a non-healing ulcer in the mouth, what can it be?
Cancer –> BIOPSY
What is your diagnosis and course of treatment?
Dx: TM perforation
Rx:
- Water precaution
- Abx drops if signs of infection
- Eventual surgery if not healed on its own
How do you diagnose Wegener’s Granulomatosis?
Labs: cANCA
- Sensitivity = 65-90%
- Specificity = 85-98%
What do you suspect if someone has a broken nose but NO nose bleed?
SEPTAL HEMATOMA!!
Trials with PPI can be diagnostic and therapeutic for which diagnosis?
- Globus
- Chronic cough
What are the red flags of neck mass that indicate a malignancy?
- Size >1.5 cm
- Firm texture to palpation
- Fixed or reduced mobility
- Ulceration of overlying skin