General Dx - Inspection

Question 1

examination procedure - done from 1st encounter to end of pat’s visit

Answer 1

Inspection

Question 2

puffy face, facial hirsutism, fat pad at base of neck posteriorly - only recent development

Answer 2

Cushing Syndrome

Question 3

Moon face
Buffalo hump
facial hair

Answer 3

Cushing syndrome

Question 4

Raynaud’s phenomenon

Answer 4

Scleroderma

Question 5

Scleroderma

Answer 5

CREST syndrome

Question 6

NOT hypothyroidism

Answer 6

dark blue or purple striae are noted on abdomen

Question 7

dark blue or purple striae are noted on abdomen

Answer 7

Cushing syndrome

Question 8

hair appears coarse, dry brittle

Answer 8

Hypothyroidism

Question 9

difficulty swallowing

Answer 9

Hypothyroidism

Question 10

fingernails are bent upward toward the tips

Answer 10

Hypothyroidism

Question 11

NOT true when differentiating muscular disuse atrophy from neurogenic atrophy

Answer 11

disuse atrophy progresses more rapidly than neurogenic (false)

Question 12

disuse atrophy progresses

Answer 12

in proportion to degree of muscular disuse

Question 13

Neurogenic atrophy progresses

Answer 13

in proportion to neural involvement of disease

Question 14

fastest atrophy is from

Answer 14

flaccid muscular paralysis from severed nerve (neurotomesis)

Question 15

Xanthelasmas

Answer 15

hypercholesterolemia (xanthelamas = dermal cholesterol deposits)