Pathognomonic Signs of Diseases

Posted by Mangyan Adventurer at 7:47 PM | Labels: Pathophysiology

1. PTB – low-grade afternoon fever.

2. PNEUMONIA – rusty sputum.

3. ASTHMA – wheezing on expiration.

4. EMPHYSEMA – barrel chest.

5. KAWASAKI SYNDROME – strawberry tongue.

6. PERNICIOUS ANEMIA – red beefy tongue.

7. DOWN SYNDROME – protruding tongue.

8. CHOLERA – rice watery stool.

9. MALARIA – stepladder like fever with chills.

10. TYPHOID – rose spots in abdomen.

11. DIPTHERIA – pseudo membrane formation

12. MEASLES – koplik’s spots.

13. SLE – butterfly rashes.

14. LIVER CIRRHOSIS – spider like varices.

15. LEPROSY – lioning face.

16. BULIMIA – chipmunk face.

17. APPENDICITIS – rebound tenderness.

18. DENGUE – petechiae or (+) Herman’s sign.

19. MENINGITIS – Kernig’s sign (leg pain), Brudzinski sign (neck pain).

20. TETANY – HYPOCALCEMIA (+) Trousseau’s sign/carpopedal spasm;

Chvostek sign (facial spasm).

21. TETANUS – risus sardonicus.

22. PANCREATITIS – Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of umbilicus); (+) Grey turners spots.

23. PYLORIC STENOSIS – olive like mass.

24. PDA – machine like murmur.

25. ADDISON’S DISEASE – bronze like skin pigmentation.

26. CUSHING’S SYNDROME – moon face appearance and buffalo hump.

27. HYPERTHYROIDISM/GRAVE’S DISEASE – exopthalmus.

28. INTUSSUSCEPTION – sausage shaped mass