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Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly   Budd Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)  
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Achilles tendon xanthoma   Familial hypercholesterolemia (Decrease LDL receptor signaling)  
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Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC   Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)  
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Athlete with polycythemia   Erythropoietin injection  
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Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss   Potts disease (vertebral TB)  
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Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints   Marfans syndrome  
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Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis   Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)  
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Blue sclera   Osteogenesis imperfecta (collagen defect)  
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Bluish line on gingiva   Burton's line (LEAD poisoning)  
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Bone pain and enlargement, arthritis   Pagets disease (increase osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)  
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Bounding pulses, head bobbing, diastolic heart murmur   Aortic regurgitation  
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Butterfly facial rash, Raynauds phenomenon, young female   Systemic lupus erythematosus  
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Cafe au lait spots, lisch nodules   Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (+pheochromocytoma, optic gliomas); Type 2 (+bilateral acoustic neuromas)  
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Cafe au lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty   McCune Albright syndrome (mosaic G protein signaling mutation)  
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Calf pseudohypertrophy   Muscular dystrophy (most comm Duchenne): X linked recessive deletion of dystrophin gene  
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"Cherry red" spot on macula   Tay Sachs (ganglioside accumulation, def of Hexosaminidase A) or Niemann Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation), central retinal artery occlusion  
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Chest pain on exertion   Angina (stable = w/mod exertion, unstable = w/minimal exertion)  
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Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI   Dressler's syndrome (autoimmune mediated post MI fibrinous pericarditis, 1-12 wks after acute episode)  
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Child uses arms to stand up from squat   Gower's sign (Duchenne muscular dystrophy)  
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Child w/fever develops red rash on face that spreads to body   "Slapped cheeks" (erythema infectiosum, 5th disease, parvovirus B19)  
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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration   Huntington's disease (aut dominant, CAG repeats)  
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Chronic exercise intolerance w/myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinura   McArdle's disease (muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)  
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Cold intolerance   Hypothyroidism  
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Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia   Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral [multiple sclerosis], unilateral [stroke])  
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Machinery heart murmur   PDA (close with indomethacin, open with misoprostol)  
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Cutaneous/dermal edema, due to connective tissue deposition   Myxedema (caused by hypothyroidism, Graves disease [periorbital])  
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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules   Kaposi's sarcoma, usually AIDS pts, associated with HHV-8  
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Deep labored breathing/hyperventilation   Kussmaul breathing (Diabetic Ketoacidosis)  
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Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea   Pellagra (niacin [vitamin b3] deficiency)  
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Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, polyneuropathy   Wet beriberi (thiamine [vitamin b1] deficiency)  
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Dog or cat bite resulting in infection   Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis @ infection site)  
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Dry mouth, Dry eyes, Arthritis   Sjogrens syndrome (autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)  
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Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron def anemia   Plummer Vinson syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)  
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Elastic skin, hypermobility of joints   Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type III collagen defect)  
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Enlarged hard left supraclavicular node   VIRCHOWS node (abdominal metastasis)  
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Erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells   Sezary syndrome, cutaneous T cell lymphoma, or mycosis fungoides  
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Facial muscle spasm upon tapping   Chvostek's sign (hypocalcemia)  
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Fat, Female, Forty, Fertile   Bile duct blockage (acute cholelithiasis)  
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Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following Abx tx for syphilis   Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes causes toxin release)  
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Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, diffuse rash, coryza   Measles (morbillivirus)  
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Fever, night sweats, weight loss   B symptoms (lymphoma)  
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Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis   Peyronnies disease  
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Gout, mental retardation, self-mutilating behavior in a boy   Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linked recessive)  
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Green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea   Kayser-Fleischer rings (Wilson's disease, copper accumulation)  
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Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth, feet, hands   Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (genetic benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction, increase cancer risk)  
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Hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic symptoms   Gaucher's disease (glucocerebrocidase deficiency)  
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Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts   Alport syndrome (mutation in alpha chain of collagen IV)  
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Hypercoagulability leading to migrating DVTs and vasculitis   Trousseau's sign (adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lungs)  
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Hyperphagia, hyperorality, hypersexuality, hyperdocility   Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)  
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Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, + Babinski sign   UMN damage  
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Hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis   Conn's syndrome (aldosterone producing adenoma)  
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Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atropy   LMN damage  
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Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia   "BLUE bloater" (chronic bronchitis, hyperplasia of mucous cells)  
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Indurated, ulcerated, genital lesion   Nonpainful: primary syphilis (Treponemia pallidum) Painful, w/exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)  
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Infant with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, neurodegeneration   Niemann Pick disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)  
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Infant with hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, hepatomegaly   Cori's disease (debranching enzyme deficiency)  
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Infant w/microcephaly, rocker bottom feet, clenched hands, structural heart defect   Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)  
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Keratin pearls on a skin biopsy   Squamous cell carcinoma  
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Large rash w/ bulls eye appearance   Erythema chronicum migrans, from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease)  
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Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury   Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)  
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Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells   Bruton's disease (x-linked agammaglobulinemia)  
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Mucosal bleeding, prolonged bleeding time   Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIb/IIIa)  
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Multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted/supernumerary teeth   Gardner's syndrome (subtype of FAP)  
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Myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance   Pompe's disease (lysosomal a-1,4-glucocidase deficiency  
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Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs), necrotizing glomerulonephritis   Wegener's (c-ANCA +) and Goodpasture (anti-GBM)  
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Neonate w/arm paralysis following difficult birth   Erb-Duchenne palsy, superior trunk (C5-6), brachial plexus injury, "waiters tip"  
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No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance   Sheehan's syndrome (pituitary infarction)  
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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear opthalmoplegia   Multiple Sclerosis  
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Oscillating slow/fast breathing   Cheyne-Stokes respirations (central apnea in CHF or increased intracranial pressure)  
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Painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia   Cold agglutinin disease (autoimmune hemolytic anemia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis)  
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Painful raised red lesions on palms and soles   Oslers nodes - infective endocarditis  
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Painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles   Janeway lesions - infective endocarditis  
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Painful cold fingers/toes   Raynauds syndrome  
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Painless jaundice   Cancer of the pancreatic head obstructing bile duct  
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Palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abd pain (child)   Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)  
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Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors   MEN 1 (aut dom)  
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Pink complexion, hyperventilation, dyspnea   Pink puffer - emphysema (centroacinar = smoking; panacinar = a1-antitrypsin deficiency)  
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Polyuria, acidosis, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances   Faconi's syndrome (PT reabsorption defect)  
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Positive anterior "drawer sign"   ACL injury  
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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis   Horner's syndrome (sympathetic chain lesions)  
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Pupil accommodates, but doesn't react   Argyll Robertson pupil (neurosyphilis)  
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Rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends (following GI/URI)   Guillain-Barre syndrome (autoimmune acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)  
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Rash on palms and soles   Coxsackie A, secondary syphilis, RMSF  
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Recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE   Hyper-IgE syndrome  
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Recurrent "currant jelly" sputum in alcoholic or diabetic pts   Klebsiella pneumoniae  
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Red itchy swollen rash of nipple   Pagets disease of the breast (represents underlying neoplasm)  
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Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs   Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria  
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Renal cell carcinoma, bilateral, hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, phenochromocytoma   VHL  
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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability   Parkinson's disease  
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Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers   Roth spots - bacterial endocarditis  
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Severe jaundice in neonate   Crigler-Najjar (unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)  
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Severe RLQ pain w/rebound tenderness   McBurney's sign (appendicitis)  
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Short stature, increase incidence of tumors, leukemia, aplastic anemia   Faconi's anemia (genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair, often progresses to AML)  
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Single palm crease   Simian crease - Down syndrome  
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Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility   Kartagener's syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)  
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Skin hyperpigmentation   Addison's disease (primary adrenocortical insufficiency causes increase ACTH and alpha-MSH production)  
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Slow progressive muscle weakness in boys   Beckers muscular dystrophy (X linked missense mutation in dystrophin, less severe than Duchenne)  
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Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa, with blue-white centers   Koplick spots - measles - rubeola virus  
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Smooth, flat, moist, white lesions on genitals   Condylomata lata (2ndary syphilis)  
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Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails   Bacterial endocarditis  
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Strawberry tongue   Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease, TSS  
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Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma @ birth   Turner syndrom, 45XO (short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema)  
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Sudden swollen big painful toe joint   Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)  
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Swollen gums, mucous bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin   Scurvy (Vit C deficiency) --- can't hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis  
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Swollen hard, painful, finger joints   Osteoarthritis - Bouchard nodes: PIP Heberden's nodes: DIP  
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Systolic ejection murmur   Aortic valve stenosis  
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Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape   Babinski sign (UMN lesion)  
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Thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma   MEN 2A (aut dom ret mutation)  
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Thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis   MEN 2B (aut dom ret mutation)  
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Unilateral facial dropping involving forehead   Bells palsy (LMN CN VII palsy)  
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Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male   Reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27  
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Vascular birthmark (port wine stain)   Hemangioma (benign, but associated with sturge-weber syndrome)  
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Vomiting blood following esophagogastric lacerations   Mallory-Weiss syndrome  
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"Waxy" casts with very low urine flow   Chronic end stage-renal disease  
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WBC casts in urine   Acute pyelonephritis  
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Weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy   Whipple's disease (Tropheryma whippelii)  
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"Worst HA of my life"   Subarachnoid hemorrhage  
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