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Maybe some of you PANCE/PANRE/Student folks out there will like this thread, we'll see.

 

Certain diagnoses are often associated w/ buzzwords or clue phrases that usually give the answer away on these exams (or on your PA student exams). While they are frankly not always useful in the real world, it is helpful to know for the exam. Everybody join in if you have good ones. Some have more than one answer, I'm sure.....

 

First few:

 

1. Dewdrops on a rose petal

2. Bamboo spine

3. Currant jelly stool

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-"Machinery-like" murmur

- Tearing chest pain radiating to back between the shoulder blades

- RBC casts in urine

- "Curtain coming down" over vision

- Spontaneous hemarthrosis

- JVD with tracheal deviation

- Friction rub

- Acute pain in big toe

- Projectile vomiting in infant, plus olive-shaped mass on palpation

- Pulsus paradoxus, or pulsus alternans

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Some more (without answers!)

 

-"Machinery-like" murmur

- Tearing chest pain radiating to back between the shoulder blades

- RBC casts in urine

- "Curtain coming down" over vision

- Spontaneous hemarthrosis

- JVD with tracheal deviation

- Friction rub

- Acute pain in big toe

- Projectile vomiting in infant, plus olive-shaped mass on palpation

- Pulsus paradoxus, or pulsus alternans

 

GOOD ONES!

speaking of murmurs:

http://www.childrensheartinstitute.org/educate/murmur/murmur.htm

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Can I play? Taking PANCE next Monday.

 

Janeway lesions....

tapioca vesicles...

triple layered sputum....

thumbprint sign on lateral neck xray...

Auspitz sign....

Roth spots....

skip lesions....

battle sign....

bird's beak on barium swallow....

maltese crosses....

WBC casts....

dinnerfork deformity....

 

Thanks, this is great help y'all

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I need answers people, answers!!!

 

"grains of sand on an erythematous base" - koplik spots?

"waxy, umbilicated papules" - molluscum?

"Beefy red plaques with satellite lesions" - candidiasis?

 

These are great! Keep em coming!

 

We have a winner - correct on all 3 counts...

 

And just to clarify:

 

Koplik spots = pathognomonic for Measles (Rubeola)

Molluscum, as in Molluscum Contagiosum

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Great thread!!!

 

"onion skin" appearance on x-ray

"slapped cheek" appearance with lace-like rash

"Butterfly" rash on face

"scottie-dog" on x-ray

"egg-on-a-string"

"snowman-in-a-snowstorm"

"boot-shaped heart"

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Some more (without answers!)

 

-"Machinery-like" murmur

- Tearing chest pain radiating to back between the shoulder blades

- RBC casts in urine

- "Curtain coming down" over vision

- Spontaneous hemarthrosis

- JVD with tracheal deviation

- Friction rub

- Acute pain in big toe

- Projectile vomiting in infant, plus olive-shaped mass on palpation

- Pulsus paradoxus, or pulsus alternans

 

patent ductus arteriosus

aortic dissection

nerphrotic syndrome ???

amaurosis fugax

???

pneumothorax

pericarditis/pleuritis ???

gout

pyloric stenosis

coarctation of aorta ???

 

----I'm trying this without the help of google

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"pill rolling" tremor, "plastic" facies

"moon facies and buffalo hump"

"cottage cheese" vaginal discharge

"fruity-smelling" breath

"strawberry-red" cervix

"perihilar fluffiness" on xray

 

Wow this is fun, I just wish I remember what they all meant.

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Some more (without answers!)

 

-"Machinery-like" murmur

- Tearing chest pain radiating to back between the shoulder blades

- RBC casts in urine

- "Curtain coming down" over vision

- Spontaneous hemarthrosis

- JVD with tracheal deviation

- Friction rub

- Acute pain in big toe

- Projectile vomiting in infant, plus olive-shaped mass on palpation

- Pulsus paradoxus, or pulsus alternans

 

Hmmm..

1. PDA?

2. Aortic dissection?

3. Glomerulonephritis?

4. retinal detachment?

5. Hemophilia?

6. tension pneumothorax?

7. pericarditis?

8. Gout?

9. rrrr... need to study peds more...pyloric stenosis?

10. Tamponade?

 

Great Posts! How'd I do? T- 33 days until the PANCE!!

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