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Classification of headaches with no identifiable cause
primary headaches
Classification of HA caused by other conditions
secondary HA
HA that is severe and sudden onset
subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis
Types of headaches that peak over several hours
migraine and tension headaches
New and persisting progressively severe HA
tumor, abscess, or mass lesion
Unilateral HA types
migraine and cluster HA
Tension HA arises in
temporal areas
Cluster HA arise in
retro-orbital areas
Nausea and vomiting common in what HA
migraine, also occur with brain tumors and subarachnoid hemorrhage
HA is common in what % of population?
30%
Patients have what with migraine prior to onset?
60-70% Prodrome; 20% aura with photophobia scintillating scotoma, or reversible visual and sensory systems
Coughing or sneezing can increase pain from what?
Pain from brain tumor and acute sinusitis
Pts having chronic daily HA taking medications more than 2 days
medication overuse
Conductive hearing loss
Problems in external or middle ear
Sensorineural hearing loss
Problems in inner ear, cochlear nerve, or central connections in brain
Trouble understanding speech, noisy environments make it worse
Sensorineural hearing loss
Hearing loss that is better in noisy environments
Conductive hearing loss
Medications that affect hearing
aminoglycosides, asprin, NSAIDs, quinine, furosemide
Pain in external ear
otitis externa
Pain in ear associated with respiratory infections
otitis media
Unusually soft wax, debris from inflammation, rash in ear canal, discharge through perforated eardrum
Secondary to acute or chronic otitis media
Tinnitus
Perceived sound that has no external stimulus
Tinnitus with hearing loss and vertigo
Meniere’s Disease
Vertigo
the perception that the environment is rotating or spinning
Feeling unsteady, lightheaded, or dizzy in the legs
cardiovascular problem
Feeling of being pulled
true vertigo from inner ear problem or central or peripheral lesion of CN VIII
Rhinorrhea
drainage from the nose
Causes of nasal congestion
allergic rhinitis, and vasomotor rhinitis; itching allergic
Relation of congestion to seasons
allergy
Excessive use of decongestants causes
worse symptoms, and rhinitis medicamentosa
URI, pain on bending or maxillary toothache, fever, tenderness is what disease?
acute bacterial sinusitis
Drugs that cause stuffiness
oral contraceptives, reserpine, guanethidine, alcohol
Nasals congestion to one side
deviated nasal septum, foreign body, tumor
Epistaxis
bleeding from the nose
Causes of epistaxis
trauma, inflammation, drying and crusting of the nasal mucosa, tumors and foreign bodies
Fever, pharyngeal exudates, anterior lymphadenopathy, with no cough suggest
streptococcal pharyngitis, strep throat
sore tongue
aphthous ulcers, sore smooth tongue of nutritional deficiency
bleeding gums
gingivitis
hoarseness
overuse of voice and acute infections
chronic hoarseness
smoking, allergy, voice abuse, hypothyroidism, chronic infections (tuberculosis) tumors
enlarged tender lymph nodes
pharyngitis
intolerance to cold, preference to warm, decrease sweating
hypothyroidism
fine hair
hyperthyroidism
coarse hair
hypothyroidism
tiny white ovoid granules in hair
eggs of lice (nits)
enlarged skull
hydrocephalus or Paget’s disease
tenderness or step offs are common in what?
common after trauma
women with polycystic ovary syndrome may have
hirsutism
What surrounds the outer portion of the ear canal?
Cartilage
Umbo
where eardrum meets malleus
Pain with movement of the auricle and tragus
otitis externa
Tenderness behind the ear
otitis media
Nontender nodular swellings covered by normal skin in ear canal
exostoses
A narrowed, moist, pale, tender, and reddened canal
otitis externa
Skin of canal is thickened, red, and itchy
chronic otitis externa
Red bulging drum of acute purulent
otitis media
Amber drum
serous effusion
Unusually prominent short process and prominent handle of malleus
retracted drum
The pars flaccida is where?
Superior on the eardrum
Things that decrease eardrum mobility
thickened drum, serous effusion, otitis media
Sound is heard in which ear in unilateral conductive hearing loss
the impaired ear
Visible explanations of unilateral conductive
acute otitis media, perforation of eardrum, obstruction of ear canal, as by cerumen
Sound is heard through bone longer than it is through air
conductive hearing loss
Sound is heard longer through air than bone
sensorineural hearing loss (or normal?)
Nasolacrimal duct drains into the
inferior meatus
Tenderness of nasal tip or alae
local infection such as furuncle
Viral rhinitis the mucosa of the nose is
reddened and swollen
Allergic rhinitis the mucosa of the nose is what color?
pale, bluish or red
Causes of septal perforation
trauma, surgery, and the intranasal use of cocaine
Ulcers of the nasal septum
cocaine
Local tenderness of sinuses with pain, fever, nasal discharge
acute sinusitis
Bright red edematous mucosa underneath a denture
denture sore mouth; may be ulcers
Black line in gums
lead poisoning
Swollen interdental papillae
gingivitis
Persistent nodule or ulcer, red or white on tongue
tongue cancer
Cancer of the tongue occurs most often at
the sides of the tongue, then the base
Enlargement of supraclavicular node
possible metastasis from thoracic or abdominal malignancy
Tender nodes
inflammation
Hard nodes
malignancy
Diffuse lymphadenopathy
HIV or AIDS
Tracheal deviation
mediastinal mass, atelectasis, large pneumothorax
Goiter is a
enlarged thyroid gland
Soft thyroid gland
grave’s disease
Firm thyroid gland
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, malignancy
Localized or systolic bruit
hyperthyroidism