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Dull chest percussion, bronchial breath sounds, crackles, no mediastinal displacement, may be reduced chest wall movement |
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Ipsilateral shift in mediastinal displacement, reduced chest wall movement over affected side, dull chest percussion, reduced or absent breath sounds, no added sounds |
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Reduced chest wall movement over affected area, stony dull chest percussion, absent breath sounds, sometimes a pleural rub |
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Reduced chest wall movement over affected side, resonant chest percussion, reduced breath sounds, no added sounds |
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Uniformly decreased chest wall movement, normal chest percussion, may be reduced breath sounds, wheeze |
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Uniformly decreased chest wall movement, normal chest percussion, normal breath sounds, fine late inspiratory crackles |
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Fatigue, fever, sore throat, lymphadenopathy, lymphocytosis, palatine petechiae, splenomegaly, anorexia |
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Infectious mononucleosis (IM) |
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Rapidly ill with high temperature, dry cough, pleuritic pain; 1-2 days later may be rusty-coloured sputum |
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Fever, malaise (flu-like illness), headache, minimal respiratory symptoms, non-productive cough, no consolidation |
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Cough and sputum (main symptoms), wheeze and dyspnoea, wheezes or crackles on auscultation |
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Barrel chest, pursed lip breathing, use of accessory muscles; Palpation - reduced expansion, hyper-inflated chest and decreased vocal fremitus; Percussion - resonant percussion note with decreased liver dullness; Auscultation - decreased vocal resonance |
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Loose cough and sputum (muco-purulent), cyanosis, signs of right ventricular failure (raised JVP); Palpation - hyperinflated chest with reduced expansion; Percussion - increased resonance; |
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Dysuria, urgency, suprapubic pain, sometimes haematuria |
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Reduced urinary stream, hesitancy of micturition, terminal dribbling, frequency with small volume, sometimes overflow incontinence |
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Bladder outlet obstruction (chronic) |
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Facial oedema, proteinuria (>3g/day), hypoalbuminaemia, hyperlipidaemia |
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General oedema, haematuria, oliguria, hypertension |
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Disturbance of vision, hearing, speech, or smell |
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Cranial nerve palsy or raised intracranial pressure |
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Pallor (anaemia), fever (infection secondary to neutropenia), petechiae (thrombocytopenia), weight loss, muscle wasting and localised infections (e.g. tonsils) |
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Pallor (anaemia), fever (infection secondary to neutropenia), bony tenderness, lymphadenopathy, slight to moderate splenomegaly, slight to moderate hepatomegaly |
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Acute leukaemia that has infiltrated the haemopoeitic system |
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Pallor (anaemia), secondary gout; massive splenomegaly, moderate hepatomegaly |
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Tiredness, pallor, recurrent acute infections; marked or moderate lymphadenopathy, moderate hepatosplenomegaly. |
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Scratch marks (pruritis), injected sclera, plethoric face, signs of cyanotic congenital heart disease or chronic lung disease |
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Scratch marks (pruritis), injected sclera, plethoric face, splenomegaly, peripheral vascular disease, gout, athropathy. |
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Lymph node enlargement (discrete, rubbery, painless, large, superficial and often confined to one site); weight loss and fever, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly |
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Lymph node enlargement (often more than one site, Waldeyer’s ring commonly affected); hepatosplenomegaly |
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Signs of anaemia, purpura or infection, bony tenderness, weight loss, skin changes, spinal cord compression, mental changes |
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Oligomennorhea, palpitations, tachycardia, brisk tendon reflexes, warm moist skin |
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Weight loss and increased appetite, nervousness, goitre, diarrhoea |
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Diffuse goitre with audible bruits, pretibial myxoedema, oncholysis |
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Diffuse goitre with audible bruits, lid retraction, lid lag, conjunctival oedema |
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Low serum TSH, high serum T3/T4, pretibial myxoedema, lid lag |
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Hoarse voice, constipation, hair loss, angina pectoris, weight gain |
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Constipation, menorrhagia, cramping of muscles, weight gain, dry skin |
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Constipation, bradycardia, delayed relaxation phase tendon reflexes, xanthelasma |
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Menorrhagia, balding of eyebrows, pleural and pericardial effusions, goitre |
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High TSH, low T3/T4, menorrhagia |
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Nausea, lethargy, drowsiness, constipation, muscle weakness, polydipsia, polyuria and psychosis |
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Positive Trousseau's sign |
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Hirsutism, acne, hypertension, proximal muscle weakness |
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Buffalo hump, central adiposity, ecchyoses |
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Polyuria/polydipsia, amenorrhoea, oedema, hypertension, hirsutism, proximal muscle weakness |
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Muscle weakness, malaise, postural hypertension, pigmentation and vitiligo, abdominal pain |
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Addison's disease (hypoadrenalism) |
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Excessive sweating, greasy skin, hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, bitemporal hemianopia |
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Spade-shaped hands, kyphosis |
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Epigastric and left hypochondrium pain (severe and constant) - may improve sitting forward, tachycardia, raised serum and urinary amylase, bruising in flanks |
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Right hypochondrium and epigastric pain radiating to the right scapula and shoulder, positive Murphy's sign, nausea and vomiting |
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Loin pain radiating to groin and scrotum - very intense colicky pain, microscopic or obvious haematuria, urinary frequency, nausea and vomiting |
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Renal colic (ureteric stones) |
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Lower abdomen pain - colicky, made worse by food and drink, constipation then vomiting, abdominal distension |
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Periumbilical pain - colicky, made worse by food and drink, vomiting then constipation, abdominal distension |
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Periumbilical pain localising to right iliac fossa, made better by lying still, fever |
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Sudden onset of epigastric pain, may radiate to shoulder and extend to whole abdomen, made worse by movement, hypotension, rebound tenderness, rigid abdomen, fever |
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Sudden onset of severe abdominal pain, made worse by movement, made better by lying still, tachycardia, hypotension, guarding and rebound tenderness, lower abdominal pain may become generalised |
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Ruptured ectopic pregnancy |
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Pain radiating to back - moderate to severe, nausea, sweating, pulsative tender mass, hypotension, oliguria/anuria |
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Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm |
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Weight loss, steatorrhea, epigastric pain radiating to back, jaundice |
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