HELPFUL GENERAL MEDICINE

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HI EVERYONE

HERE ARE SOME IMPORTANT DISEASE CLINCHERS TO FACILITATE DIAGNOSIS:

PATHOGNOMONIC SIGNS

1. COPD - Barrel-Chested

2. Pneumonia - Greenish Rusty Sputum

3. Pernicious Anemia - Beefy Red Tongue (Schilling's Test)

4. Kawasaki Disease. - Strawberry Tongue

5. Typhoid - Stepladder Fever

6. Typhoid - Rose Spot

7. Tetany - Chvostek Sign (Muscle Twitching Face)- Trosseau's Sign (Jerky

Mov'ts)

8. Pancreatitis - Cullen Sign (Bluish discoloration preumbilical area)

9. Appendicitis - McBurney's Point (rebound tenderness)- Rovsing Sign (RLQ pain

w/ palpation in LLQ)- Psoas Sign(pain on lying down putting pressure on MB pt)

10. Thrombophlebitis - Homan's Sign

11. Hepatitis - Icteric Sclera (yellowish discoloration of sclera)

12. Meningitis - Burdzinski Sign (Pain on nape)- Kernig Sign (pain on leg/ knee

area)

13. Pyloric Stenosis - Olive-Shaped Mass

14. Hyperthyroidism - Exopthalmus

15. 's Dse. - Bronze-like skin

16. Cushing Syndrome- Buffalo Hump

17. Cholera - Rice Watery Stool

18. SLE - Butterfly Rashes

19. Leprosy - Leoning Face (contracted face)

20. Bulimia Nervosa - Chipmunk Face

21. Liver Cirrhosis - Spider Angioma

22. Asthma - Wheezing Inspiration

23. Hyperpituitarism - CAROTENEMIA (Discoloration of skin)- XANTHAMIA

24. Down Syndrome- Single Crease on Palm

25.TOF - Clubbing of FingernailsVentricular Septal DefectPulmonary

StenosisOverriding of AortaRight Ventricular Hypertrophy

26.Cataract - Blurry Vision / Hizzy Vision

27.Glucoma - Tunnel-like Vision

28. PTB - Low grade fever in a ternoon

29. Cholecystitis- 's Sign (pain RUQ)

30. Myasthemia Gravis (MG) – Ptosis (inability to open upper eyelids)

31. Dengue - Petechiae

32. Parkinson's Dse. - Pill Rolling Tremors

33. MI - Levine's Sign (Clutching of the chest)

34. Measles - Koplick's Spot

GOOD LUCK

BEST REGARDS

EBTISAM