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Examination of head and neck Flashcards

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What are the 4 systematic steps in principal examination

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  1. Inspection = visual examination of the area
  2. Palpation = feeling the area of examination
  3. Percussion = tapping around the area
  4. Auscultation = listening to area with stethoscope
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How does Cushing’s syndrome present on the face

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  • Moon face
  • Plethora = redness
  • Hirsutism = excessive facial hair
  • Acne
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How does Cushing’s syndrome present else where on the body

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  • Red striae on abdomen
  • Weight gain; buffalo hump
  • Ammenorhoea
  • Personality change
  • Hypertention
  • Osteoperosis
  • Diabetes due to increased gluconeogenesis
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What are the causes of Cushing’s syndrome

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  1. Cushing’s disease
  2. Ectopic ACTH secreting tumours (small cell lung cancer and bronchus carcinoma)
  3. Adrenal tumour causing cortisol production
  4. Excess cortisol exposure e.g. prednisolone
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What is the dental relevance of Cushing’s syndrome

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  • Candidiasis (if DM)
  • If on bisphosphonates risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw
  • Need steroid cover for dental surgeries
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What is the difference between Cushing’s disease and Cushing’s syndrome

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Disease = due to pituitary tumour causing XS ACTH

Syndrome = due to exogenous steroids, small cell lung cancer, adrenal tumours

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How does hypothyroidism present on the face

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  • Coarse mottled skin
  • Peaches and cream complexion
  • Peri-orbital oedema
  • Loss of eyebrows
  • Dull, listless appearance
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How does hypothyroidism present elsewhere on the body

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  • Tiredness
  • Poor appetite, weight gain and constipation
  • Cold intolerance
  • Hairloss
  • Infertility
  • Heavy irregular periods
  • Depression
  • Bradycardia
  • Myxoedema facies
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What causes hypothyroidism

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  1. Dietary iodine deficiency (needed for thyroxine production)
  2. Thyroidectomy
  3. Pituitary gland disorder thus no TSH production
  4. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis = autoimmune
  5. Drugs e.g. amiodarone, lithium
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What is the dental relevance of hypothyroidism

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  1. Delayed dental eruption
  2. Glossitis
  3. Dysgeusia
  4. Delayed wound healing
  5. Compromised periodontal health due to delayed bone formation
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What is myxoedema coma

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Lethal deterioration of the patients mental status when the body’s compensatory responses to hypothyroidism are overwhelmed by a precipitating factor such as drug or infection (this means they cannot be put under GA)

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How does acromegaly present on the face

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  • Frontal bossing
  • Prominent supraorbital ridge
  • Brow furrow
  • Enlarged nose
  • Prognathism (bulging of lower jaw)
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How does acromegaly present else where on the body

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  • XS hair growth (hirsutism) and sweating
  • Spade-like hands and feet
  • Carpel tunnel (where medial nerve is trapped)
  • Loss of temporal vision (bitemporal heminopea)
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What causes acromegaly

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Fast growth causing gigantism as a result of an anterior pituitary tumour

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What is the dental relevance of acromegaly

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  1. Macroglossia
  2. Spacing of teeth
  3. Malocclusion
  4. Anterior open bite
  5. Hypercementosis of root
  6. Enlarged prognatic mandible
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What can acromegaly cause

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CVS - hypertension, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease

Metabolic - DM type II, impotence, amenorrhea

Osteoarthritis

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Why do patients with acromegaly have bitemporal hemianopia

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Because the anterior pituitary tumour can enlarge to compress the optic chiasm meaning the nasal half of fibres are disrupted causing loss of vision in temporal region (decussation)

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How does downs syndrome present on the face

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  • Dysmorphic round face
  • Eyes that slant upwards
  • Epicanthic folds (upper eyelid skin fold covering inner eye)
  • Brushfield spots (white spots in iris arranged circularly)
  • Small nose with a flattened bridge
  • Protruding tongue
  • Small low set ears
  • Flat occiput (back of head)
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How does downs syndrome present else where on the body

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  • Small head and short neck
  • Broad and short hands with single palmar crease
  • Hyperflexible joints
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What is the cause of downs syndrome

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Trisomy of chromosome 21

- there is a random error is cell division causing an extra chromosome

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What is the dental relevance of downs syndrome

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  1. Delayed eruption
  2. Small teeth causing spacing or
  3. Crowding due to small upper jaw
  4. Unstable neck due to atlantoaxial subluxation which can compress spinal chord (take care extending neck)
  5. Increased periodontal disease risk
  6. Macroglossia
  7. Anterior open bite
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What complications can downs syndrome cause

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  1. Congenital heart disease; predisposed to IE
  2. Learning difficulty and developmental delay
  3. Increased risk of leukaemia and infections
  4. Intestinal problems
  5. Hyperthyroidism
  6. Hearing and visual problems
  7. Risk of Alzheimer’s
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How does Bell’s palsy present on the face

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  • Unilateral facial weakness
  • Inability to furrow brow
  • Droopy eyelid (ptosis) cannot close eye
  • Loss of nasolabial fold
  • Drooping corner of the mouth; cannot smile or pucker
  • Abnormal contraction of the platysma muscle
  • Facial numbness
  • Changes in salivation
  • Alterations of taste sensation (afferent fibres of taste receptors)
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How does Bell’s palsy present else where on the body

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Patients are sensitive to sound and light

Hyperacusis or ear pain due to involvement of somatic afferent fibres of the external auditory canal and pinna

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What causes Bell’s palsy

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It is caused by lower motor neurone lesion of the facial nerve which can occur due to; herpes, EBV/CBV or be autoimmune

There is inflammation and swelling of the facial nerve near the stylomastoid canal which can cause compression and ischaemia or demyelination of the nerve

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What is the dental relevance of Bell’s palsy

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  1. Hard to clean teeth on affected side
  2. Food accumulation so risk of tooth decay and gum disease
  3. Xerostomia so increased caries risk
  4. Dentures don’t fit well due to poor cheek tone
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What is the difference between the symptoms experienced from upper and lower motor neurone lesions

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UMN lesions spare the upper face so unilaterally affects lower half of face

LMN lesion (Bell’s palsy) affects the face unilaterally

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What are the causes of bilateral parotid gland swellings

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  1. Diabetes
  2. Alcoholic liver disease
  3. Sjogren’s syndrome
  4. Infections like mumps
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What are the causes of unilateral parotid gland swellings

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  1. Parotitis = painful bacterial infection
  2. Salivary calculus
  3. Parotid tumour
30
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What is peri-orbital erythema

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Redness and swelling around the eye; this could be due to an adverse drug reaction, local infection (periorbital cellulitis) or an allergy

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What can peri-orbital bruising indicate

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If it is not a result of trauma/soft tissue injury it can indicate life threatening conditions such as cancer

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What is a meibomian cyst

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Lump or swelling on the eyelid due to blockage of a tarsal gland

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What is a stye

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A staph infection of the hair follicle affecting the eyelid; this is self healing but can be aided with hot water compresses and antibiotics if infected

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What is xanthalessma

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Yellow fatty deposits commonly on the medial aspect of eyelids due to hyperlipidaemia, diabetes and hyperthyroidism

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What is eyelid retraction characteristic of

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Graves disease; autoimmune attack on thyroid causing hyperthyroidism

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What is exopthalmos

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Bulging out of the eye

37
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What does a red sclera indicate

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conjunctivitis

38
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What does a yellow sclera indicate

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jaundice

39
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What does a blue sclera indicate

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osteogenesis imperfects where there is thinning of the sclera which means the veins show through causing a blue appearance

40
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What can changes in the conjunctiva indivate

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Pale/pink is characteristic of anaemia and dryness could indicate Sjogren’s

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How does basal cell carcinoma present on the face

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Pink localised skin cancer with raised and rolled edges and telangactasia, and this can crust and bleed - this is slow growing but if left untreated it can form a rodent ulcer which will require skin grafting

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What are the causes of jaundice

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  1. Pre-hepatic = haemolytic anaemia
  2. Hepatic = dysfunction causing hepatitis, drugs, alcohol, tumours in the liver
  3. Post-hepatic = bile duct issue e.g. gallstones so bile cannot drain, or a pancreatic tumour obstructing the biliary tree
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What are the common causes of bilateral exopthalmous

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  1. Grave’s disease
  2. Metastatic neuroblastoma
  3. Lymphoma/leukemia
  4. Cavernous sinus thrombosis
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What are the common causes of unilateral exophthalmos

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  1. Eye trauma/infection (bleeding behind eye or orbital cellulitis)
  2. Optic nerve tumour
  3. Meningioma
  4. Haemangioma
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What is stomatitis caused by

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Infection, iron deficiency, chemotherapy, contact dermatitis

46
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What GIT disease could be the cause of ulcers in the mouth

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Crohn’s disease (not ulcerative colitis) because Crohn’s affects from the mouth to anus

47
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What can gingival hypertrophy be caused by

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  • Ca2+ channel blockers
  • Phenytoin (anti-epileptic)
  • Cyclosphorin (immunosuppressive)
48
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What is lichen planus on the tongue a result of

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Chronic inflammatory condition which is premalignant for squamous cell carcinoma and appears as white lacy patters on the tongue or oral mucosa

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What is geographic tongue

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When there is inflammation on the top and sides of the tongue

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What is angular chelitis

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Inflammatory condition affecting corners of the mouth

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What can abnormal pigmentation on the lips and around oral cavity be caused by

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  1. Addison’s disease; not enough cortisol
  2. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome; genetic condition where there is benign colonic polyps (hamartomas) which can bleed and cause GI blood loss
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What is oral candidiases

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Fungal infection by Candida albicans which is related to diabetes, HIV and patients that are immunosuppressed

53
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What can cause atrophic glossitis

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  • B12 deficiency
  • Iron deficiency anaemia
  • Folate deficiency
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What can cause macroglossia

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  • Acromegaly
  • Amyloidosis
  • Hyperthyroidism
55
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Describe the anatomical locations of the two triangles of the neck

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Anterior = below digastric, infant of sternomastoid 
Posterior = behind sternomastoid, infront of trapezius, above clavicle
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Describe how a neck lump should be assessed

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Site, size, shape, surface (smooth or nodular)

Texture, consistency, temperature, tenderness

Motility and surrounding tissues and fluctuance

Overlying skin changes, pulsatilitu, lymph drainage

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What are fluctuant neck lumps

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These are fluid filled and can be assessed by

  • holding the lump by its sides and applying pressure to the centre of the mass
  • if it is fluid filled then it will budge outwards
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What does transillumination of neck lumps indicate

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That it is fluid filled e.g. cystic hygroma

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What is a vascular bruit

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This is an audible vascular sound associated with turbulent blood flow and can indicate goitre or carotid body tumour when found in neck lumps and is heard in Grave’s disease

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How does goitre present

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It is an enlargement of the thyroid gland and appears as a diffuse central neck swelling which will move up on swallowing and not move upon tongue protrusion

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What type of neck swelling will move up on tongue protrusion

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Thyroglossal cycst

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Outline how the thyroid gland is palpated

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  1. Move behind the patient and identify cricoid cartilage with fingers of both hands
  2. Move downwards 2/3 tracheal rings while palpating for the isthmus
  3. Move laterally away from the midline while palpating for the lobes of the thyroid
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What does retrosternal dullness upon percussion below neck indicate

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Large goitre extending inferiorly

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What is the only neck swelling that is pulsatile

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Carotid body tumours

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What is a laryngocoele

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Congenital anomalous air sac communicating with the cavity of the larynx showing as an anterior neck swelling

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List anterior triangle neck swellings

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  1. Lymphadenopathy
  2. Thyroid swelling
  3. Parotid tumour
  4. Branchial cyst
  5. Dermoid cyst

Rare; carotid body tumour, laryngocoele

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List midline neck swellings

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  1. Lymphadenopathy
  2. Thyroid swelling
  3. Thyroglossal cyst
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List posterior triangle neck swellings

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  1. Lymphadenopathy
  2. Cystic hygroma
  3. Cervical rib

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