PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN Flashcards
Charcot’s Triad (IAN)
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
bronze like skin pigmentation
ADDISON’S DISEASE
Machine like murmur
PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS
Kussmauls breathing (DEEP RAPID RR)
DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS (DKA
Salty skin
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Expiratory Grunt
FIBRIN HYALIN
Reduced size & force of urine
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
Strawberry tongue
KAWASAKI SYNDROME
Red beefy tongue
PERNICIOUS ANEMIA
Stepladder like fever with chills
malaria
Stepladder like fever with chills
-Rose spots in abdomen.
typhoid
Butterfly rashes
SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Rebound tenderness
APPENDICITIS
Petechiae or (+) Herman’s sign
dengue
Kernig’s sign (leg flex then leg pain on extension), Brudzinski sign (neck flex = lower leg flex)
meningitis
Chipmunk face
THALASEMIA/ BULIMIA NERVOSA
Lioning face
LEPROSY
Koplik’s spots
MEASLES
Spider like varices
LIVER CIRRHOSIS
Pseudomembrane
DIPTHERIA
Rice watery stool
CHOLERA
Protruding tongue
DOWN SYNDROME
Barrel chest
EMPHYSEMA
Wheezing on expiration
ASTHMA
Low-grade afternoon fever
TUBERCULOSIS
Rusty sputum
PNEUMONIA
Painless vision loss, Opacity of the lens, blurring of vision
CATARACT
Cat’s eye reflex (grayish discoloration of pupils)
RETINO BLASTOMA
Chvostek & Trosseaus sign
HYPOCALCEMIA
Recurrent bloody diarrhea
ULCERATIVE COLITIS
Burning on urination
CYSTITIS
Bull’s eye rash
LYME’S DSE
Painfull vision loss, tunnel/gun barrel/halo vision (Peripheral Vision Loss)
GLAUCOMA
Cushing’s Triad (HYPERBRADYBRADY) HYPERtension BRADYpnea BRADYcardia
INCREASE ICP
Bossing sign (prominent forehead)
HYDROCEPHALUS
Vertigo, Tinnitus
MENIERE’S DSE
Descending muscle weakness
MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
Ascending muscle weakness
GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME
homan’s Sign
DVT
Crushing stubbing pain relieved by NTG
ANGINA
Inspiratory stridor
CROUP
(HYPOTACHYTACHY) HYPOtension TACHYpnea TACHYcardia
SHOCK
Vesicular Rash (central to distal) dew drop on rose petal
CHICKEN POX
Barretts esophagus (erosion of the lower portion of the esophageal mucosa)
GERD
Gowers’ sign (use of hands to push one’s self from the floor)
DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Coarse facial feature
ACROMEGALY
Flapping hand tremor
HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
Visual Floaters, flashes of light, curtain veil like vision
RETINAL DETACHMENT
Exopthalmus
HYPERTHYROIDISM/GRAVE’S DISEASE
Sausage shaped mass, Dance Sign
INTUSSUSCEPTION
Moon face appearance and buffalo hump
CUSHING’S SYNDROME
Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of umbilicus); (+) Grey turners spots PYLORIC STENOSIS
PANCREATITIS
Olive like mass
PYLORIC STENOSIS
Hallmark: sore throat, cervical lymph adenopathy, fever
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
Pill-rolling tremors
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
3Ds’ Drooling, Dysphonia, Dysphagia
EPIGLOTITIS
Reedstenberg Cells
HODGEKIN’S DSE/LYMPHOMA
Maple syrup urine odor
MSUD
Rag Doll appearance
-floppy
-Head sag
-Large tongue
Congenital Hypothyroidism:
Risus sardonicus
TETANUS
Hypocalcemia (+) Trousseau’s sign/carpopedal spasm; Chvostek sign (facial spasm)
TETANY
Coarse facial feature
ACROMEGALY
wheezing on expiration
ASTHMA
Cs’ Coughing, Choking, Cyanosis, Continous Drooling
tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
(separation of epidermis caused by rubbing of the skin)
PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS
Crushing stubbing pain which radiates to left shoulder, neck, arms, unrelieved by NTG
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