Tuesday 21 February 2012

PATHOGNOMIC SIGNS

1. COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Barrel-Chested
2. Pneumonia
- Greenish Rusty Sputum
3. Pernicious Anemia
- Beefy Red Tongue (Schilling’s Test)
4. Kawasaki Dieases
- Strawberry Tongue
5. Typhoid
- Rose Spot
6. Tetany
- Chvostek Sign (Muscle Twitching Face)
- Trosseau’s Sign (Jerky Mov’ts)
7. Pancreatitis
- Cullen Sign (Bluish discoloration preumbilical area)
8. 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)
9. Thrombophlebitis
- Homan’s Sign
10. Hepatitis
- Icteric Sclera (yellowish discoloration of sclera)
11. Meningitis
- Burdzinski Sign (Pain on nape)
- Karnig Sign (pain on leg/ knee area)
12. Pyloric Stenosis
- Olive-Shaped Mass
13. Hyperthyroidism
- Exopthalmus
14. Addison’s Disease.
- Bronze-like skin
15. Cushing Syndrome
- Boffalo Hump
16. Cholera
- Rice Watery Stool
17. SLE
- Butterfly Rashes
18. Leprosy
- Leoning Face (contracted face)
19. Bulimia Nervosa
- Chipmunk Face
20. Liver Cirrhosis
- Spider Angioma
21. Asthma
- Wheezing Inspiration
22. Hyperpituitarism
- CAROTENEMIA (Discoloration of skin)
- XANTHAMIA
23. Down Syndrome
- Single Crease on Palm
24.TOF
- Ventricular Septal Defect , Pulmonary Stenosis
Overriding of Aorta , Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
25.Cataract
- Blurry Vision / Hizzy Vision
26.Glucoma
- Tunnel-like Vision
27. PTB
- Low grade fever in a ternoon
28. Cholecystitis
- Murphy’s Sign (pain RUQ)
29. Myasthemia Gravis (MG)
– Ptosis (inability to open upper eyelids)
30. Dengue
- Petechiae
31. Parkinson’s Diease.
- Pill Rolling Tremors
32. Measles
- Koplick’s Spot

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