Clinical Reasoning — Flashcards

Abnormal electrical activity that is localized to one hemisphere and impairs consciousness; symptoms include behavioral arrest, automatisms (lip smacking, chewing), sensory hallucinations, and/or repetitive clonic movement: _____

Hint: Diagnosis?

Ascending flaccid paralysis that progresses rapidly over 24–48 hours → can lead to respiratory failure due to respiratory muscle weakness and no fever or rash: _____

Hint: Diagnosis?

Patient with a "twisted ankle" leading to pain, swelling, and inability to bear weight: _____

Hint: Diagnosis?

Spurling's maneuver is a neck compression test that is used for diagnosis of _____

Why is an abdominal x-ray not useful to confirm the diagnosis of diverticulitis? _____

_____ = asthma challenge testing (if spirometry normal)

Hint: drug

Angiofibromas (face) Ash-leaf spots (hypopigmented on Wood's lamp) Shagreen patches (common on low back) Afebrile seizures = _____

Hint: diagnosis

What will be seen on KUB of Ogilvie syndrome? _____

Recurrent skin, mucosal (e.g. tooth) infections without purulence and neutrophilia is suggestive of _____

Hint: diagnosis

What is the best noninvasive test to confirm diagnosis of H. pylori infection? _____