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Tenderness indicates
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inflamation, pain, and possible cancer
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Nodes that are large (> 1cm), firm, fixed or matted, inflamed, or tender indicate what?
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A problem and possible cancer
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Lymph nodes are usually cold, soft, matted and non tender in what kind of infection
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Chronic Infectiove
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Lymph nodes are usually large, firm, movable in what kin of infection
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Acute Infection
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Lymphadenopathy—enlargement of a lymph node (>1 cm) due to infection, allergy, or neoplasm.
If nodes are palpable they should feel movable, discrete (not matted together), soft, and nontender |
Lympahadenopathy
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Harder node is mor likely
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cancer
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More tender the node is more likely to be a sign
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inflamation
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What is common sites of metastasis A palpable mass (e.g., thoracic or abdominal cancer).
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Supraclavicular nodes
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A large, firm supraclavicular lymph node, particulary on the left side is call
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Virchow’s node or sentinel node.
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Malignant lymphoma
Reed-Sternberg cells Usually affects adults in yearly 30s |
Hodkins Disease
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Typically starts as single lymphadenopathy, especially in the neck, groin or near aorta
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Hodkins Disease
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Pitting Edema
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2+ 3+ 4+ |
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Caused by swelling, when pressure is applied it stays depressed
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Pitting edema
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Accessible lymph nodes provide some of the earliest clues to the presence of What
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Infection or maligancy
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located in the midline a few cm behind the tip of the mandiable
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submental
under chin |
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node located at the base of the skull
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occipital
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located deep to the sternomastiod often inaccesibile
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deep cervical chain
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enlargement of a supraclavicular node, especally on the left suggests possible metastasis from what
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Thoracic or abdominal malignancy
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Tender nodes suggests
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inflamation
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the presence of hard nodes on palpation suggests
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malignancy
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Lateral nodes are located alont the upper arm of the humerour and drain
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most of the arm
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Hair that is short and fine, inconspicuous and relatively unpigmented is called
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vellus hair
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Hair that is course, thicker, more conspicuous and usually pigmented is called
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terminal hair
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What is a violaceous eruption over the eye lids in the collagen vascular disease
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Heliotrope
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what you have a yellowish color to your skin but not to the sclera of the eye you have
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carotenmia
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reddish oval ringworm like lesions are called
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pityriasis
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what are tan, flat scaly lesions called
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Tinea versicolor
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macule
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small flat spot up to 1cm
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elevated superficial lesion 1 cm or larger
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plaque
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A marble like lesion larger than 0.5 cm often deeper and firmer thst a papule
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nodule
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A somewhat irregular, relatively transient, superficial area of localised skin edema
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Wheel
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Up to 1 cm filled with serious fluid
herpes |
vesicle
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1 cm of larger filled with serous fluid
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bulla
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a linnear crack in the skin often caused by excessive dryness
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fissure
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Vascular Lesion that is firey red
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Spider angioma
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Vascular Lesion that is bluish
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Spider vein
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A Vascular lesion that is bright or ruby red
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Cehrry Angioma
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Purpuric Lesion that is deep red or reddish purple, fades over time, round, flat
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Petechia
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A purpuric lesion that is purple or purpleis blue, fading to green and brown with time round, oval, flat nodule
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Ecchymosis
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Appears of sun exposed skin
face and back of hand are effected |
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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