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Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly

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Budd-Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)

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Achilles tendon xantoma

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Familial hypercholesterolemia (dec LDL receptor signaling)

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Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC

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Waterhouse-Friedrichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)

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Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joint

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Marfans syndrome (fibrillin defect)

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Athlete with polycythemia

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EPO injection

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Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss

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Pitt’s disease (vertebral tuberculosis)

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Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis

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Sarcoidosis (non-caseating granulomas)

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Blue sclera

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Osteogenesis imperfecta (type 1 collagen defect)

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Bluish line on gingiva

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Burton’s line (lead poisoning)

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Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis

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Paget’s disease of bone (increased osteoblastic activity and osteoclastic activity, Mosaic lamellar bone)

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Bounding pulse, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing

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Aortic regurg

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Butterfly facial rash, Rayauds in a young female

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SLE

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Cafe au last spots, Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma), unilateral fibromas with spindle cells

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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (+pheocromocytoma, optic gliomas)

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Calf pseudohypertrophy

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Muscular dystrophy, (MC Duchenne’s): X-linked recessive deletion of the dystrophin gene

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“Cherry red” spot on macula

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Tay Sachs (ganglioside accumulation, hexosaminidase A deficiency) or Neimann-Pick, central retinal artery occlusion

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Chest pain on exertion

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Angina (stable/unstable)

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Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI

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Dressler’s syndrome (AI post-MI fibrous pericarditis 1-12 wks after episode)

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Child uses arms to stand up

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Gower’s sign (Duchenne Musc dystrophy)

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Child with fever later develops red rash on face that spreads to body

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“Slapped cheeks” (erythema infectious/ 5th disease, Parvo19)

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Rash that starts on face, moves to body

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Rubella (German measles, RNA Rubella Virus)

Measles (Rubeola)

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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration

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Huntington’s disease (autosomal dominant CAG repeat expansion)

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Cold intolerance

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hypothyroidism

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Continuous “machinery” heart murmur

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PDA

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Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition

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Myxedema (dt hypothyroidism, Grave’s disease…)

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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules

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Kaposi’s sarcoma (AIDS assoc, HHV-8)

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Deep, labored breathing/hyperventilation in a diabetic

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Kussmaul breathing (diabetic ketoacidosis)

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Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea

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Pellagra (B3, Niacin deficiency)

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Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism or malnutrition

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Wet beriberi (B1, Thiamine deficiency)

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Dog or cat bite related infection

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Pasteurella multocida cellulitis

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Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis

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Sjogrens syndrome

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Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency anemia

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Plummer-Vinson syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell Ca)

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32
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Elastic skin, hyper mobility of joints

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Ehler’s Danlos syndrome (Type III collagen deficiency)

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33
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Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node

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Virchows node (abdominal metastasis)

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Erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells

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Sezary syndrome (cutaneous T cell lymphoma or mycosis fungoides

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35
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Facial muscle spasm on tapping

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Chvostek’s sign (hypocalcemia)

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Fever, chills, HA, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphilis

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

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Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash

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Measles (morbillivirus)

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Fever, night sweats, weight loss

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B symptoms of lymphoma

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39
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Fibrous plaques on soft tissue of the penis

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Peyronie’s disease

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40
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Gout, mental retardation, self-mutilation behavior on a boy

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Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linmked recessive)

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41
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Green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea

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Kayser-Fleischer rings (Wilson’s disease, copper accumulation)

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Hamartomatous, GI polyps, hyper pigmentation of mouth, feet, hands

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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (inherited, benign polyposis, can –> bowel obstruction, inc cancer risk, esp GI

43
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Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, Babinski sign present

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UMN damage

44
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Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atrophy, fasciculations

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LMN damage

45
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Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia

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“Blue bloater” Chronic bronchitis

46
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Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion

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Nonpainful: chancre, syphilis

Painful, with exudate: chancroid, H. ducreyi

47
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Infant with cleft lip/palate, microcephaly or holoproscencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia

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patau’s syndrome (trisomy 13)

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Failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, neurodegeneration

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Niemann-Pick disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)

49
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Hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, hepatomegaly

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Cori’s disease

50
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Infant microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands and structural heart defect

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Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)

51
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Jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gall-bladder

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Courvosier’s sign (distal obstruction of biliary tree)

52
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Large rash with bulls-eye appearance

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Erythema migrans (lyme)

53
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Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury

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Epidural hematoma (MMA rupture)

54
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Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B-cells

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Bruton’s disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)

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Muffled heart sounds, distended neck veins, hypotension

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Becks trade of cardiac tamponade

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Multiple colon polyps osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted/supernumerary teeth

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Gardner’s syndrome (FAP subtype)

57
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Myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance

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Pope’s disease

58
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No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance

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Sheehans syndrome pituitary infarction

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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia

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Multiple sclerosis

60
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Oscillating slow/fast breathing

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Cheyne-Stokes respirations (central apnea CHF or increased cranial pressure)

61
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Painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia

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Cold agglutination disease (AI hemolytic anemia caused by mycoplasma pneumonia or Mono)

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Painful pale, cold fingers/toes

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Painful, raised red lesions on pad of fingers/toes

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Osler’s nodes (Infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition)

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Painless erythematous lesions on palms/soles

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Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis, septic emboli/microabscesses

65
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Painless jaundice

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cancer of the pancreatic head obstructing the bile duct

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Palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abdominal pain, hematuria (in a child)

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Henoch-Schoenlein purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)

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Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors

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Periorbital / Peripheral edema, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia

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Nephrotic syndrome

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Pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation

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“pink puffer” Emphysema, centriacinar (smoking), panacean (alpha-antitrypsin deficiency)

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Polyuria, renal tubular acidosis type II, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances, hypophosphatemic rickets

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Fanconi’s syndrome

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Positive anterior drawer sign

72
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Pruritic, purple, polygona planar papules and plaques

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Lichen planus

73
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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis

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Horner’s syndrome

74
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Pupil accommodates but doesn’t react

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Argyll Robertson pupil/ neurosyphilis

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Rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends following GI/ URI

76
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Rash on palms and soles

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Coxsackie A, secondary syphilis, Rocky mountain spotted fever (Rickettsia rickettsii)

77
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Red “currant jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients

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Klebsiella pneumonia

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Red “currant jelly” stools

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Acute mesenteric ischemia (adults)

Intussusception (infants)

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Red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/ areola

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Paget’s disease of the breast

80
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Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs

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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

81
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Renal cell carcinoma (bilateral), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma

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von hippel-lindau disease

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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability

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Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers

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Roth spots (bacterial endocarditis)

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Severe RLQ pain with palpation of LLQ

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Rovings sign (acute appendicitis)

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Severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness

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Mcburneys sign (acute appendicitis)

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Short stature, increased incidence of tumors, leukemia, aplastic anemia

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Fanconi’s anemia (genetic loss of DNA repair, often progresses to AML)

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Single palmar crease

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Down syndrome

88
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Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility

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Kartagener’s syndrome (dyne arm defect affecting cilia)

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Skin hyper pigmentation, hypotension, fatigue

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Addison disease (inc ACTH)

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Small irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers

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Koplik spots (measles, rubeola virus)

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Condyloma lata

92
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Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails

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bacterial endocarditis

93
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“strawberry tongue”

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scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease, TSS

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Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema

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turner syndrome (45, XO)

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swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin

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scurvy (Vit C deficiency)

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Systolic ejection murmur

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Aortic stenosis

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Thyroid, parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma

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Thryoid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis

99
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Urethritis, Conjunctivitis, arthritis

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reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27

100
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Vomiting blood following esophageal laceration

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Mallory-Weiss syndrome

101
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Worst headache of one’s life

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subarachnoid hemorrhage

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HLA-B27

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AS, Reiter’s, UC, psoriasis

103
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HLADR3/ DR4

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DM type 1, RA, SLE

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Tetralogy of Fallot

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VSD, Pulm. stenosis, RV hypertrophy, dextroposed aorta

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