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=== Heart === | === Heart === | ||
Heart murmur associate with streptococcal pharyngitis. | * Heart murmur associate with 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 === | ||
Cervical adenopathy | * Cervical adenopathy | ||
'''Diphtheria:''' Examination reveals a serosanguineous nasal discharge and a grayish-white pharyngeal membrane (exudative and extending to the uvula and soft palate) in association with pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and cervical lymphadenopathy.<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> | '''Diphtheria:''' Examination reveals a serosanguineous nasal discharge and a grayish-white pharyngeal membrane (exudative and extending to the uvula and soft palate) in association with pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and cervical lymphadenopathy.<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> | ||
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Overview
Physical Examination
Vital Signs
- High/ low grade fever
Skin
- Scarlatiniform rash[1]
HEENT
- Pharynx shows erythema, hypertrophy, foreign body, tonsilar exudates, masses, Soft-palate petechiae(“doughnut” lesions), and Beefy red, swollen uvula.[2][1]
Heart
- Heart murmur associate with streptococcal pharyngitis.
Abdomen
- Hepatospleenomegaly: Associate with pharyngitis caused by group A streptococcus, Infectious mononucleosis.
Neck
- Cervical adenopathy
Diphtheria: Examination reveals a serosanguineous nasal discharge and a grayish-white pharyngeal membrane (exudative and extending to the uvula and soft palate) in association with pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and cervical lymphadenopathy.[2]
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bisno AL (2001) Acute pharyngitis. N Engl J Med 344 (3):205-11. DOI:10.1056/NEJM200101183440308 PMID: 11172144
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vincent MT, Celestin N, Hussain AN (2004) Pharyngitis. Am Fam Physician 69 (6):1465-70. PMID: 15053411