Ex3 Flashcards
When inspecting the visible lymph nodes you are looking for what 3 characteristics?
Edema, erythema, red streaks
Every tissue supplied by blood vessels has lymphatic vessels except what 3 things?
Brain, placenta
What are the gait way to assessing the health of the entire lymphatic system?
Superficial lymph nodes
What nodes are commonly palpable before age 2?
Inguinal, occipital, postauricular
What nodes are not common before 2 years of age and then are?
Cervical and submandibular
During pregnancy WBC count rises when?
In the first trimester
Small non tender nodes that feel like beebees
Shotty
Group of nodes that feel connected and seem to move as a unit
Matted
Moon face is associated with what syndrome?
Cushings
What syndrome is associated with tics?
Tourette syndrome
Changes to facial nerve
If entire face is affected what should you suspect the problem to be?
Facial nerve
If only the mouth is affected what should you suspect is the problem?
Trigeminal n
An upper thoracic fat pad (buffalo hump) in seen in patients with what?
Cushing syndrome
If a patient has dull, puffy, yellow skin, course sparse hair, preorbial edema and a prominent tongue what faces is this?
Myxedema
What is the Pierre robin sequence ?
Micrognathia, glossoptosis, and palatial clefting
What syndrome is associated with an enlarged skull, low forehand, corneal clouding and a shirt neck?
Hurler syndrome
What syndrome has maxillary hypo plasma, micrognathia, and auricular deformities ?
Treacher Collins syndrome
When are inter cranial bruits common and not common?
Common in children not common in neonates
Are bruit over heard over the orbit may indicate what? /
Cerebral aneurysm
Webbing, excessive posterior cervical skin or an usually shirt neck may be associated with what?
Chromosomal abnormalities
Cardarelli or Oliver sign is associated with what?
Aortic aneurysm
How do you estimate thyroid size?
Lateral inspection
When the thyroid gland is small doctors tend to
Exaggerate size
When the thyroid gland is large doctors tend to
Underestimate size