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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
Patients with pharyngitis typically have low-grade [[fever]] and pharyngeal erythema, suggestive of viral etiology or pharyngeal exudate or petechia, suggestive of GAS. Additional signs include enlarged edematous tonsils, enlarged and/or tender cervical adenopathy, rash may or may not be present. Scarlatiniform rash, which is marked by multiple small red papules that are widely and diffusely distributed but spare the palms and soles, is suggestive of GAS.
Patients with pharyngitis typically have low-grade [[fever]] and pharyngeal erythema, suggestive of viral etiology or pharyngeal exudate or petechia, suggestive of [[group A streptococcus]]. Additional signs include enlarged edematous tonsils, enlarged and/or tender cervical adenopathy, rash may or may not be present. Scarlatiniform rash, which is marked by multiple small red papules that are widely and diffusely distributed but spare the palms and soles, is suggestive of [[Group A streptococcal infection|GAS]].


== Physical Examination ==
== Physical Examination ==
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=== Skin ===
=== Skin ===
* Scarlatiniform rash associate with GAS, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum.<ref name="pmid11172144">Bisno AL (2001) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11172144 Acute pharyngitis.] ''N Engl J Med'' 344 (3):205-11. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308] PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/11172144 11172144]</ref>
* [[Scarlet Fever|Scarlatiniform rash]] associate with [[Group A streptococcal infection|GAS]], [[Arcanobacterium haemolyticum]].<ref name="pmid11172144">Bisno AL (2001) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11172144 Acute pharyngitis.] ''N Engl J Med'' 344 (3):205-11. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308] PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/11172144 11172144]</ref>


=== HEENT ===
=== HEENT ===
* Pharynx shows erythema, hypertrophy, tonsilar exudates, masses, Soft-palate petechiae(“doughnut” lesions), and Beefy red, swollen uvula associate with Sterptococcal pharyngitis.<ref name="pmid15053411">Vincent MT, Celestin N, Hussain AN (2004) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=15053411 Pharyngitis.] ''Am Fam Physician'' 69 (6):1465-70. PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/15053411 15053411]</ref><ref name="pmid11172144">Bisno AL (2001) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11172144 Acute pharyngitis.] ''N Engl J Med'' 344 (3):205-11. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308] PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/11172144 11172144]</ref>
* Pharynx shows erythema, hypertrophy, tonsilar exudates, masses, Soft-palate petechiae (“doughnut” lesions), and beefy red, swollen uvula associate with Sterptococcal pharyngitis.<ref name="pmid15053411">Vincent MT, Celestin N, Hussain AN (2004) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=15053411 Pharyngitis.] ''Am Fam Physician'' 69 (6):1465-70. PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/15053411 15053411]</ref><ref name="pmid11172144">Bisno AL (2001) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11172144 Acute pharyngitis.] ''N Engl J Med'' 344 (3):205-11. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308] PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/11172144 11172144]</ref>
* Grayish brown diphtheritic pseudomembrane which may involve one or both tonsils or may extend widely to involve the nares, uvula, soft palate, pharynx, larynx, and tracheobronchial tree associate with Corynebacterium diphtheria.<ref name="pmid11172144">Bisno AL (2001) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11172144 Acute pharyngitis.] ''N Engl J Med'' 344 (3):205-11. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308] PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/11172144 11172144]</ref>
* Grayish brown diphtheritic pseudomembrane which may involve one or both tonsils or may extend widely to involve the nares, uvula, soft palate, pharynx, larynx, and tracheobronchial tree associate with Corynebacterium diphtheria.<ref name="pmid11172144">Bisno AL (2001) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=11172144 Acute pharyngitis.] ''N Engl J Med'' 344 (3):205-11. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308] PMID: [https://pubmed.gov/11172144 11172144]</ref>
* Conjunctivitis and periauricular lymphadenopathy associate with adenoviral infection.
* Conjunctivitis and periauricular lymphadenopathy associate with [[adenoviral]] infection.
* Blisters or ulcers in the anterior mouth or lips are seen in herpes simplex infection.
* Blisters or ulcers in the anterior mouth or lips are seen in [[Herpes simplex virus|herpes simplex infection]].


=== Heart ===
=== Heart ===
* Heart murmur associate with rheumatic fever due to streptococcal pharyngitis.
* Heart murmur associate with [[rheumatic fever]] due to streptococcal pharyngitis.


=== Abdomen ===
=== Abdomen ===
* Hepatospleenomegaly: Associate with pharyngitis caused by group A streptococcus, Infectious mononucleosis.
* Hepatospleenomegaly: Associate with pharyngitis caused by [[group A streptococcus]], [[Infectious mononucleosis]].


=== Neck ===
=== Neck ===

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Venkata Sivakrishna Kumar Pulivarthi M.B.B.S [2]

Overview

Patients with pharyngitis typically have low-grade fever and pharyngeal erythema, suggestive of viral etiology or pharyngeal exudate or petechia, suggestive of group A streptococcus. Additional signs include enlarged edematous tonsils, enlarged and/or tender cervical adenopathy, rash may or may not be present. Scarlatiniform rash, which is marked by multiple small red papules that are widely and diffusely distributed but spare the palms and soles, is suggestive of GAS.

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Vital Signs

  • High/ low grade fever

Skin

HEENT

  • Pharynx shows erythema, hypertrophy, tonsilar exudates, masses, Soft-palate petechiae (“doughnut” lesions), and beefy red, swollen uvula associate with Sterptococcal pharyngitis.[2][1]
  • Grayish brown diphtheritic pseudomembrane which may involve one or both tonsils or may extend widely to involve the nares, uvula, soft palate, pharynx, larynx, and tracheobronchial tree associate with Corynebacterium diphtheria.[1]
  • Conjunctivitis and periauricular lymphadenopathy associate with adenoviral infection.
  • Blisters or ulcers in the anterior mouth or lips are seen in herpes simplex infection.

Heart

  • Heart murmur associate with rheumatic fever due to streptococcal pharyngitis.

Abdomen

Neck

  • Cervical adenopathy

Reference

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bisno AL (2001) Acute pharyngitis. N Engl J Med 344 (3):205-11. DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 PMID: 11172144
  2. ↑ Vincent MT, Celestin N, Hussain AN (2004) Pharyngitis. Am Fam Physician 69 (6):1465-70. PMID: 15053411

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