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USmle eponymous conditions Flashcards

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abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly

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Budd-Chiari syndrome -posthepatic venous thrombosis

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Abdominal pain, diarrhea, leukocytosis, recent antibiotic use

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C. Diff

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achiles tendon xanthoma

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Familial hypercholesterolaemia (decreased LDL)

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adrenal haem, hypotension, DIC

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Waterhouse-friderichsen (meningococcemia)

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anaphylaxis following blood transfusion

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IgA deficiency

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Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints

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marfan’s

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athlete with polycythaemia

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secondary to EPO injections

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Back pain, fever, night sweats

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vetebral TB (Pott’s disease)

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bilateral acoustic schwannomas

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neurofibromatosis type 2

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bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis

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sarcoidosis (non-caseating granulomas)

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black eschar on face with a hx of diabetic ketoacidosis

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mucor or rhizopus fungal infection

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blue sclera

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osteogenesis imperfecta

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bluish line on gingiva

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Burton Line (lead poisoning)

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bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis

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Pagets disease (increased osteoblast and cleast activity)

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bounding pulse, wide pulse pressure, diastolic murmur, head bobbing

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aortic regurg

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butterfly rash and reynauds

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SLE

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café-au-lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine abnormalities

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McCune Albright syndrome (mosaic G preotein signalling mutation)

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Café-au-lair spots, lisch nodules (iris harmatoma),cutaneous neurofibromas, pheochromocytoma, optic gliomas

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neurofibromatosis type 1

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calf pseudohypertrophy

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muscular dystrophy (commonly Duchenne, due to X linked recessive mutation of dystrophin gene)

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cherry red spots on macula

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central retinal artery occlusion (Neimann-Pick or Tay-Sachs)

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chest pain, pericardial friction rub (effusion), persistent fever following MI

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Dressler syndrome (autoimmune mediated post MI occuring 2 weeks to several months after)

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child uses arms to get up from squatting

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duchenne muscular dystrophy

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child with red cheeks after a fever (spreads to body)

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slapped cheeks disease (firth disease - parvovisur B19)

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chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration

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huntingdon’s (autosomal dominant CAG repeat expansion)

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chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications

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congenital toxoplasmosis

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chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria

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McArdle disease - skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)

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cold intolerance

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hypothyroidism

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conjugate gaze palsy, horizontal diplopis, nystagmus

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internuclear opthalmoplegia (damage to MLF)

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continuous machine like murmur

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PDA

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cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition

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myxedema (hyperthyroidism, graves disease - pretibial)

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cutaneous flushing, diarrhoea, bronchospasm

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carcinoid syndrome (right sided cardiac valvular lesions)

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dark purple skin/mouth nodules in pt with AIDS

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kaposi sarcome

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deep, laboured breathing with hyperventilation

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Kussmauls resps (ketoacidosis)

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dermatitis, dementia, diarrhoea

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Pellegra (niacin - vit B3 deficiency)

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dialated cardiomyopathy, oedema, alcoholism, malnutrition

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Wet beriberi - thiamine deficiency (B1)

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infection post dog or cat bite

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Pasturella multocida - cellulitis as site

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dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis

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Sjorgren’s - autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands

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dysphagia (oesophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency

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Plummer-Vinson syndrome - can progress to oesophageal SCC

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elastic skin, hypermobility of joints, increased bleeding

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Ehlers-Danlos (type V collagen defect, or type III collagen defect in vascular subtype)

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enlarged, hard, left sided supraclavicular node

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Vichow node - gastric malignancy

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episodic vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss

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meniere disease

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erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, atypical T cells

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Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) or Sezary syndrome

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facial muscles spasm on taping

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Chvostek sign - hypocalcaemia

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fat, female, forty, fertile

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cholelithiasis (gallstones)

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fever, chills, headache, myalgia, following antibiotic use for syphylis

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes result in endotoxin realese)

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fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash

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measles

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fever, night sweats, weight loss

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B symptoms of lymphoma

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fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis with abnormal curvature

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Peyronie disease (connective tissue disease)

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golden brown rings around peripheral cornea

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Wilson disease - kayser-fleischer rings

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gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilation in a boy

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Lesch-Nyhan syndrome - X linked recessive HGPRT deficiency

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harmatoma GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of outh, feet, hands, genitals

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Peutz-Jeghers synfroms (inherited benign polyposis increased obstruction risk, cancer risk)

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hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, osteoporosis, aseptic femoral head necrosis, bone crises

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Gaucher disease - glucocerebrosidase deficiency

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hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts

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Alport syndrome - mutation in collagen IV

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hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility

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Kluver-Bucy syndrome - bilateral amygdala lesion

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hyperreflexia, hypertonia, + Babinski

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UMN

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hypotonia, hyporeflexia, atrophy, fasciculations

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LMN

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hypoxaemia, polycythaemia, hypercapnia

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chronic bronchitis

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indurated, ulcerated genital lesions

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painful with exudate: chancroid. Painless: chancre (syphylis)

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infant with cleft lip/palate, micrcephaly, polydactyl,cutis aplasia

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Patau syndrome (trisomy 13)

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infant with hypoglycaemia, hepatomegaly

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Cori disease (debranching enzyme disease) or Von Gierke disease (glucose-6-phosphate deficiency)

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infant with microcephaly, rocker bottom feet, clenched hands, structural heart defect

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Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)

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jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder

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Courvoisier sign - distal malignant obstruction of bilairy tree

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large rash with bull’s eye appearance

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erythema chronicum migrans - Lyme disease

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lucid intervals after traumatic brain injury

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epidural haematome (middle menigeal artery rupture)

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male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells

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Bruton disease - X linked agammaglobinemia

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mucosal bleeding and prolongued bleeding time

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glanzmann thrombasthenia - defect in platelet aggregation due to lackof GpIIb/IIIa

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muffled heart signs, distended neck veins, hypotension

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Becks triad of cardiac tamponade

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mutiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted or extra teeth

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Gardner syndrome

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myopathy (infantile hypetrophic cardiomyopathy) with exercise intolerance

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Pompe disease - lysosomal alpha-1, 4-glucosidase deficiency

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neonate with arm paralysis after a difficult birth

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Erb-duchenne palsy (superior trunk C5-C6 brachial plexus injury) “waiters tip”

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failure to lactate postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance

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Sheehan syndrome - pituitary infarction

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nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear opthalmoplegia

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multiple sclerosis

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painful blue fingers/toes, haemolytic anaemia

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cold agglutin disease - autoimmune haemolytic anaemia caused by mycoplasm pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis, CLL

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painful fingers/toes, changing from white to blue to red with cold or stress

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Reynauds - peripheral vasospasm

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painful, red, raised lesions on pads of fingers/toes

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Oslers nodes (infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition)

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painless erythematous lesions on palms/soles

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Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis, microemboli)

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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 in kids, haematuria

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Henoch-schonlein purpura - IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys

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pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors

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MEN1 - autosomal dominant

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periorbital and/or peripheral oedema, proteinuria >3.5g/day, hypoalbuminaemia, hypercholesterolaemia

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nephrotic syndrome

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pink compexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation

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pink puffer - emphysema (centriacinar smoking, panacina alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency)

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polyuria, renal tubular acidosis type II, growth failure, electrolyte imbalance, hypophosphatemic rickets

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fanconi syndrome - multiple combined dysfunction of the proximal tubule

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pruritic, purple, polygonal planar papules and plaques - 6 P’s

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Lichen planus

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ptosis, anhydrosis, miosis

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Horner syndrome - sympathetic chain lesion

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pupil accomodates but doesn’t react

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argyll robertson pupil - neurosyphylis

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rash on palms and soles

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coxsackie A virus (kids) or secondary syphylis

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recurrent non-inflammed (cold) abcesses, unussual eczema, high serum IgE

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Job syndrome - hyper IgE with neutrophil chomoitaxis abnormality

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Red “currant jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic pt’s

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klebsiella pneumonia pneumonia

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Red “currant jelly” stools

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acute mesenteric ischaemia in adults, intussesception in kids

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Red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola

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Pagets disease or breast - possible underlying neoplasm

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Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs

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paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria

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

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von Hippel-Lindau disease - dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation

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resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, shufling gate

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parkinsons - loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compact

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retinal haemorhhages with pale centres

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roths spots - infective endocarditis

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severe jaundice in neonates

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Crigler-Najjar syndrome - congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

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severe RLQ pain on palpating LLQ

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Rovsing sign - appendicitis

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short stature, café-au-lait spots, thumb/radial defects, increased incidence of tumors, aplastic anaemia

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fanconi anemia - genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair, often progresses to AML

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single palmar crease

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Down’s

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Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility

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Kartagener syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)

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Skin hyperpigmentation, hypotension, fatigue

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1° adrenocortical insufficiency (eg, Addison disease) causes increased ACTH and increased ?-MSH production)

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Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys

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Becker muscular dystrophy - X linked missence mutation of dystrophin

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small, irregular, red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centres

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Koplik spots - measles (rubeola) virus

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smooth, moistm painless, wart-like white lesions on genitals

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condylomata lata - secondary syphylis

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strawberry tongue

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scalet fever, kawasaki syndrome

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streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshow kidneys, cystic hygroma at birth, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema

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turner sydrome (45, X)

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swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petichae

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scurvy - viatmin C deficiency

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telangiectasia, recurrent nose bleeds, skin discolouration, arteriovenous malformation, GI bleeding, haematuria

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Osler-Webb-Rendu syndrome

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thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma

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MEN 2a - autosomal dominant RET mutation

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thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis

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MEN 2b

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unilateral facial drooping including forehead

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UMN disorder of CN VII

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urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in male

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reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27

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weight loss, diarrhoea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy

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Whipple disease

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