Red flags — Flashcards

Flashcard 31: Is brisk rotatory nystagmus a normal finding in elderly patients? _____

Answer: No

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Flashcard 32: penetrating trauma, distended neck veins, reduced lung sounds, hyperresonance and trachea contralateral deviation is _____

Answer: tension pneumothorax

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Flashcard 33: Which pancreatic cysts are at high risk for malignancy? Large size (> 3cm) Solid components or calcifications _____ _____

Answer: Main pancreatic duct involvement

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Flashcard 34: What is the most likely diagnosis in an adult patient with sore throat, fever, neck tenderness, and stridor? _____

Answer: Epiglottitis

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Flashcard 35: Virchow's node is seen in _____

Answer: gastric carcinoma

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Flashcard 36: What does bilious vomiting indicate? _____

Answer: Obstruction distal to ampulla of vater

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Flashcard 37: Inappropriately sized neonate with jitteriness and tremors? _____

Answer: Hypoglycemia (<40-45 mg/dL)

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Flashcard 38: - Sick, rapid onset, with high-spiking fever - Drooling, neck extended, muffled/"hot-potato" voice - Unilateral anterior lymphadenopathy with tender mass _____

Answer: Retropharyngeal abscess; CT

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Flashcard 39: Hematuria and GU cancer = _____

Answer: painless

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Flashcard 40: Which intracranial hemorrhage presents as the "worst headache of my life"? _____

Answer: Subarachnoid hemorrhage