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Overview
Physical Examination
Appearance of the Patient
- Patients with EoE usually appear normal.
Vital Signs
- Temperature-Normal
- Heart rate- regular pulse
- Respiratory rate- Normal
- Blood pressure- Normal
Skin
- Skin- Normal
HEENT
- Sclera- Normal
- Extra-ocular movements- normal
- Pupils reactive to light / reactive to accommodation
- Ophthalmoscopic exam is normal
- Hearing acuity normal
- Weber test-normal
- Rinne test-positive
- Ear canal- normal
Neck
- Normal- Jugualar venous pulse
- Carotid pulse- normal
- Lymphnodes-normal
- Thyroid-normal
Lungs
- Symmetric chest expansion
- Lungs are resonant
- Normal vesicular breath sounds heard
- Wheezing may be present
- Egophony absent
- Bronchophony absent
- Normal tactile fremitus
Heart
Abdomen
- Abdominal examination is normal
- No organomegaly
- No bruits heard
Back
- Normal
Genitourinary
- Nomal
Neuromuscular
- Patient is usually oriented to persons, place, and time
- Normal mental status
- Glasgow coma scale is 15/ 15
- Clonus may be present
- Normal deep tendon reflexes
- Normal cranial nerve examination
- Normal Gait
- Normal cerebellar examination
Extremities
- Normal