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109 Cards in this Set
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Hyperextension of neck:
Innervation affected Examples of such a situation Manifesting Symptom |
Affects upper trunk
MVA to shoulder, birth trauma Erb-Duchenne Palsy (waiter's tip); paralysis of abductors, arm is medially rotated |
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Situation where C7 root is compressed.
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Herniated disc
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Surgical neck (humerus) fracture affects this nerve.
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Axillary nerve injury
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Dislocation of humerus affects this nerve.
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Axillary nerve
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IM injections can affect this nerve.
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Axillary Nerve
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Axillary nerve innervates ______.
What does this muscle group do? |
Axillary nerve innervates deltoids
Results in abduction |
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Midshaft fracture of humerus affects this nerve.
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Radial nerve in spiral groove
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Lower trunk of brachial plexus:
Situations that would compress it Manifesting Symptom |
Cervical rib
Pancoast tumor of the lung Results in Klumpke's Palsy (total claw hand) and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: |
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What is thoracic outlet syndrome?
Causes? |
due to child birth defect or to compression of lower trunk of brachial plexus;
-atrophy of thenar/hypothenar eminences (palm near thumb) -atrophy of interosseous muscles -sensory defects of medial forearm/hand -disappearance of radial pulse when moving head to opposite side |
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Incorrect use of crutch in axilla affects this nerve.
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Affects radial nerve
Same effect if drunk and lay over a bench (leads to Saturday night palsy)--WRIST DROP |
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Supracondylar fracture of humerus affects this nerve.
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Median nerve
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Fracture of medial epicondyle of humerus affects this nerve.
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Ulnar nerve
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Repeat minor trauma affects this nerve.
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Ulnar nerve
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This nerve is compressed in carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Median nerve
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Superficial laceration of the palm affects this nerve.
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Recurrent branch of median nerve
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Trauma to the heel of the hand affects this nerve.
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Ulnar nerve
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Fracture of the hook of hamate affects this nerve.
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Ulnar nerve
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Radial Nerve:
What does it innervate? What is seen with damage? |
Radial nerve innervates the BEST extensors:
Brachioradialis Extensor of wrist and fingers Supinators Triceps; will see WRIST DROP SATURDAY NIGHT PALSY |
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Ulnar Nerve:
What does it innervate? What is seen with damage? |
CLAW HAND (2nd and 3rd fingers remain straight, 4th and 5th are flexed)
Can't adduct thumb Can't adduct/abduct fingers (lose interosseous mm) |
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Median Nerve:
What is seen with damage? |
Innervates pronation; can't pronate if damaged
Leads to bishop's hand, pope's hand--4th and 5th digits are clawed Ape's hand: can't oppose thumbs (it innervates thenar muscles); can only abduct/adduct thumb. can't touch fingers with thumb. Carpal Tunnel |
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An elderly woman with chronic osteoarthritis and diffuse pain presents with numbness and tingling over lateral digits that radiates up to elbow. Exam reveals wasting of thenar eminence.
Diagnosis? |
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Musculocutaneous nerve:
What is seen with damage? |
Extensory (innervates biceps, brachialis); innervates skin of lateral forearm
Damage: Weak arm and forearm extension Weak forearm supination Weak arm flexion Loss of sensation to lateral forearm |
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Median nerve
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Thumb, pronators
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Distal Ulnar Nerve Injury
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Distal Ulnar Nerve lzn: ulnar canal syndrome--lose medial lumbrical function; 4th and 5th digits are clawed.
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Inability to extend 4th and 5th digits.
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Claw hand--distal ulnar nerve lzn
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Inability to flex 1st and 2nd digits.
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Median nerve lesion--pope's blessing
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Inability to extend 1st and 2nd digits.
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Median Claw--median nerve injury
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Inability to flex 4th and 5th digits.
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Proximal ulnar nerve injury.
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This nerve innervates interosseus muscles.
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Ulnar
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Claw hand
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ulnar nerve injury
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Ape hand
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Unopposed thumbs
median hand |
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Wrist drop
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Radial nerve
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Scapular winging
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Long thoracic nerve (innervates serratus anterior)
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Unable to wipe bottom
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Humerus exention, adduction, medially rotating--all controlled by lattisimus dorsi
Thoracodorsal nerve |
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Loss of forearm pronation
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Median nerve
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Cannot adduct or abduct fingers
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Ulnar nerve
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Loss of arm abduction.
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Axillary nerve to deltoid
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Weak lateral rotation of arm.
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Suprascapular nerve innervating infraspinatus
Can also be axillary (goes to deltoids). |
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Loss of arm/forearm flexion.
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Musculocutaneous nerve (innervates biceps, coracobrachialis etc)
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Loss of forearm extension.
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Radial
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Trouble initiating arm abduction.
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Initial abduction = supraspinatus
Innervated by suprascapular nerve. |
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Unable to abduct beyond 10 degrees.
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Deltoid--axillary nerve
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Unable to abduct beyond horizontal.
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Serratus anterior--long thoracic nerve
Trapezius--spinal accessory nerve |
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Shaft of humerus
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radial nerve
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Surgical neck of humerus
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axillary nerve
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Supracondyle of humerus
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median
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Medial epicondyle
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ulnar
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Anterior shoulder dislocation
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Axillary; runs with posterior circumflex artery!
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Injury to carpal tunnel
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Median nerve
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Adolescent falls, injurs his elbow, and can't feel the medial part of his palm.
Which nerve? What injury? |
Medial epicondyle
Ulnar nerve injury |
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Athlete falls on arm. Radiograph shows midshaft break on humerus.
Which nerve and artery have highest risk of being damaged? |
Radial Nerve
Deep brachial artery |
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Abdominal pain
Ascites Hepatomegaly No JVD |
Budd-Chiari Syndrome (posthepativ venous thrombosis)
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Achilles tendon xanthoma
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xanthoma = fat under skin
Familial hypercholesterolemia (low LDL receptor signaling) |
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Adrenal hemorrhage
Hypotension DIC |
Waterhouse-Friderichsen (meningococcemia)
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Arachnodactyly
Lens dislocation Aortic dissection Hyperflexible Joints |
Marfan's Syndrome
(Fibrillin defect) |
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Athlete with polycythemia
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EPO injections
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Back pain
Fever Night sweats Weight loss |
Pott's Dz--Vertebral TB
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Bilateral Hilar Adenopathy
Uveitis |
Sarcoidosis
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Blue Sclera
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta--type I 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 |
Paget's disease of bone (inc'd oblast and oclast activity)
would have inc'd alkaline phosphatase (signal of bone breakdown?) |
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Bounding pulses
Diastolic Heart Murmur Head Bobbing |
Aortic regurgitation
Head bobbing = sign of bounding pulses |
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Cafe au lait spots
Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma) |
Hamartoma = normal tissue in abnormally high quantities
Assocd w/neurofibromatosis I, II |
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Cafe au lait spots
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia Precocious puberty |
McCune-Albright
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Calf pseudohypertrophy
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Duchenne's MD
Becker's MD |
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Cherry red spot on macula
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Tey Sachs
Niemann-Pick Central Retinal artery occlusion |
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Chest pain
Pericardial effusion/friction rub Persistent fever following MI |
Dressler's syndrome (autoimmune post MI fibrinous pericarditis)
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Child uses arms to stand up from squat
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Gower's sign (Duchenne)
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Child with fever develops red rash on face that spreads to body
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Erythema infectiosum AKA
Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease) |
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Chorea
Dementia Caudate Degeneration |
HD (AD CAG repeat expansion)
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Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia
Fatigue Painful cramps |
McArdle's dz (muscular dystrophy)
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Cold intolerance
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Hypothyroidism
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What diseases are associated with a decrease in ACh?
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HD
AD |
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This disease is filled with Cs.
What C's? |
Chorea
Crazy (dementia) Caudate degeneration CAG repeats Choline (ACh decrease) Subsequent degenerations develop disease earlier (anticipation) |
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What disease is associated with an increase in ACh?
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PD
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Conjugate lateral gaze palsy
Horizontal diplopia |
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy:
Ask patient to look right; adducting eye will stay still Abducting eye will shift over w/nystagmus On frontward gaze, can focus on finger Cause: Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral = MS, unilateral = stroke) |
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Continuous machinery heart murmur
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Patent ductus arteriosus
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Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition
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Myxedema (hypothyroidism, Graves)
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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules
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Kaposi's sarcoma (usually AIDS patients; assocd w/HHV-8)
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Deep labored breathing
Hyperventilation |
Kussmaul breathing; seen in DKA
this is body's way of trying to correct acidosis that goes along with DKA |
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Dermatitis
Dementia Diarrhea |
Vitamin B3 deficiency
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Dilated cardiomyopathy
Edema Polyneuropathy |
Wet beriberi--thiamine (B1) deficiency
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Dog or cat bite resulting in infection
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Pasteurella (cellulitis at inoculation site)
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Dry Eyes
Dry Mouth Arthritis |
Sjögren's syndrome
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Dysphagia due to esophageal webs
Glossitis Iron deficiency anemia |
Plummer-Vinson syndrome--may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
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Elastic skin
Hypermobility of joints |
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (collagen defect, type III usually)
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Type I Collagen Defect
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OI
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Enlarged hard left supraclavicular node
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Virchow's node--abdominal metastasis
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Erythroderma
LAD HSM Atypical T Cells |
Sezary Syndrome (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) or mycosis fungoides
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Facial muscle spasm upon tapping
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Chvostek's sign due to HYPOcalcemia
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Fat
Female Forty Fertile |
Cholelithiasis (bile duct blockage)
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Fever
Chills HA Myalgia following abx for syphilis |
Jarisch-Herxheimer Rxn--rapid lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release
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Fever
Cough Conjunctivitis Coryza Diffuse Rash |
Note: Coryza = head cold
This is measles (morbillivirus) |
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Fever
Night Sweats Weight Loss |
B syx (lymphoma)
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Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
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Peyronie's dz
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Gout
MR Self-mutilating behavior Boy |
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome--HGPRT deficiency (purine salvage PW)
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Green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea
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Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson's Dz)
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Hamartomatous GI polyps
Hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands |
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (genetic benign polyposis; can cause bowel obstruciton; inc'd cancer risk)
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HSM
Osteoporosis Neuro Syx |
Gaucher's Dz--crinkled tissue paper cytoplasm
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Hereditary nephritis
Sensorineural hearing loss Cataracts |
Alport's Syndrome (type IV collagen mutation)
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Type IV Collagen Mutation
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Alport's Syndrome
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Can't see
Can't pee Can't hear |
Alport's syndrome
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Hypercoagulability leading to migrating DVTs and vasculitis
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Trousseaus's sign--adenoca of pancreas or lung
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Latent tetany
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Hypocalcemia (other Trousseau's sign)
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Hyperphagia
Hypersexuality Hyperorality Hyperdocility |
Kluver-Bucy syndrome--bilateral amygdala lzn
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HTN
Hypokalemia Metabolic Acidosis |
Primary hyperaldosteronism
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Hypotension
Hyperkalemia Metabolic Alkalosis |
Adrenal insufficiency (low aldosterone)
Can be caused by Waterhouse-Friedrichson (adrenal hemorrhage), sprinolocatone |
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Hypoxemia
Polycythemia Hypercapnia |
Blue bloater--chronic bronchitis (hyperplasia of mucus cells)
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Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
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Nonpainful: chancre--syphilis
Painful: chancroid--haemophylis ducreyi |