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