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Disease Signs & Symptoms
Disease Signs & Symptoms
CHICKEN POX Vesicular Rash (central to distal) dew drop on rose petal
DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY Gowers’ sign (use of hands to push one’s self from the floor)
GERD Barretts esophagus (erosion of the lower portion of the esophageal mucosa)
HODGKIN’S DSE/LYMPHOMA painless, progressive enlargement of spleen & lymph tissues, Reedstenberg Cells
MENINGITIS Kernig’s sign (leg flex then leg pain on extension), Brudzinski sign (neck flex = lower leg flex
MI Crushing stubbing pain which radiates to left shoulder, neck, arms, unrelieved by NTG
PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS Nikolsky’s sign (separation of epidermis caused by rubbing of the skin)
TETANY hypocalcemia (+) Trousseau’s sign/carpopedal spasm; Chvostek sign (facial spasm)