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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Syed Hassan A. Kazmi BSc, MD [2]
Overview
The pathognomonic physical examination findings in patients infected with coronavirus include fever, flu-like-symptoms, cough, and body aches. General appearance of the patient infected with coronavirus depends on the incubation period of the illness.
Physical Examination
The pathognomonic physical examination findings in patients infected with coronavirus include fever, flu-like-symptoms, cough, and body aches.
Appearance of the Patient
- General appearance of the patient infected with coronavirus depends on the incubation period of the illness.
- Patients can appear healthy in the initial days of the contraction of the disease.
- Patients will appear sick, lethargic, and short of breath in the later stages of the disease.
Vital Signs
- High fever (>100.4°F )[1]
Skin
- Skin examination of patients with COVID-19 includes the following lesions:
HEENT
- HEENT examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
Neck
- Neck examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
Lungs
- Coronavirus infection mimics the pulmonary examination findings of pneumonia, such as:
- Increased respiratory rate[11]
- Percussion dullness
- Bronchial or decreased breath sounds
Heart
Abdomen
- Abdominal examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
- MERS-CoV infection, during the 2012 outbreak, was characterized by mild abdominal tenderness in some cases.[12]
Back
- Back examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
Genitourinary
- Genitourinary examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
Neuromuscular
- Neuromuscular examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
Extremities
- Extremities examination of patients infected with coronavirus is usually normal.
References
- ↑ (PDF) https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-SARS.pdf. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Jimenez-Cauhe J, Ortega-Quijano D, Carretero-Barrio I, Suarez-Valle A, Saceda-Corralo D, Moreno-Garcia Del Real C, Fernandez-Nieto D (May 2020). "Erythema multiforme-like eruption in patients with COVID-19 infection: clinical and histological findings". Clin. Exp. Dermatol. doi:10.1111/ced.14281. PMID 32385858 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Recalcati, S. (2020). "Cutaneous manifestations in COVID‐19: a first perspective". Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 34 (5). doi:10.1111/jdv.16387. ISSN 0926-9959.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Recalcati, S. (2020). "Cutaneous manifestations in COVID‐19: a first perspective". Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. 34 (5). doi:10.1111/jdv.16387. ISSN 0926-9959.
- ↑ Fernandez-Nieto, D; Ortega-Quijano, D; Segurado-Miravalles, G; Pindado-Ortega, C; Prieto-Barrios, M; Jimenez-Cauhe, J (2020). "Comment on: Cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19: a first perspective. Safety concerns of clinical images and skin biopsies". Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. doi:10.1111/jdv.16470. ISSN 0926-9959.
- ↑ Tammaro, A.; Adebanjo, G.A.R.; Parisella, F.R.; Pezzuto, A.; Rello, J. (2020). "Cutaneous manifestations in COVID‐19: the experiences of Barcelona and Rome". Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. doi:10.1111/jdv.16530. ISSN 0926-9959.
- ↑ Jimenez-Cauhe, Juan; Ortega-Quijano, Daniel; Prieto-Barrios, Marta; Moreno-Arrones, Oscar M.; Fernandez-Nieto, Diego (2020). "Reply to "COVID-19 can present with a rash and be mistaken for dengue": Petechial rash in a patient with COVID-19 infection". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2020.04.016. ISSN 0190-9622.
- ↑ Manalo, Iviensan F.; Smith, Molly K.; Cheeley, Justin; Jacobs, Randy (2020). "A dermatologic manifestation of COVID-19: Transient livedo reticularis". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2020.04.018. ISSN 0190-9622.
- ↑ Fernandez-Nieto, D.; Jimenez-Cauhe, J.; Suarez-Valle, A.; Moreno-Arrones, O.M.; Saceda-Corralo, D.; Arana-Raja, A.; Ortega-Quijano, D. (2020). "Characterization of acute acro-ischemic lesions in non-hospitalized patients: a case series of 132 patients during the COVID-19 outbreak". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2020.04.093. ISSN 0190-9622.
- ↑ Piccolo, V.; Neri, I.; Filippeschi, C.; Oranges, T.; Argenziano, G.; Battarra, V.C.; Berti, S.; Manunza, F.; Fortina, A.B.; Di Lernia, V.; Boccaletti, V.; De Bernardis, G.; Brunetti, B.; Mazzatenta, C.; Bassi, A. (2020). "Chilblain‐like lesions during COVID‐19 epidemic: a preliminary study on 63 patients". Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. doi:10.1111/jdv.16526. ISSN 0926-9959.
- ↑ de Jongh TO, Thiadens HA (2011). "[Physical examination of the lungs in suspected pneumonia]". Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd (in Dutch; Flemish). 155: A2656. PMID 21329538.
- ↑ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/about/symptoms.html. Missing or empty
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