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What is a Boxer’s fracture?? Fracture of the 4th or 5th metacarpal neck
 - Common in
Common in younger males ... onto the hand Symptoms ... articular space - Multiple ... Overlying wounds or signs ... Hand #Metacarpal #Diagnosis
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
neurodegenerative disease ... Epidemiology: • Female ... Sclerosis Diagnosis ... Signs and symptoms ... #management #neurology
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
equipment - Multiple ... with the same symptoms ... collagen vascular diseases ... headache #redflags #signs ... #emergency #diagnosis
Optic Neuritis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Epidemiology: Female (75%), 18-50 years,
caucasian
 • Symptoms: Moderate visual
and Management ... Epidemiology: Female ... caucasian • Symptoms ... Unilateral • Signs ... other auto-immune diseases
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
inflammation of multiple ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Characteristics of Peripheral and Central Vertigo
PERIPHERAL VERTIGO
 • Onset: Sudden
 • Intensity: Severe initially, often decreasing
tinnitus (Méniére's disease ... in stroke and multiple ... Central #Vertigo #diagnosis ... #findings #signs ... #symptoms #comparison
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
=Females SIGNS/ ... SYMPTOMS: • Acute ... misdiagnosed as CAP • Symptoms ... steroids for severe disease ... #management #pulmonary
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Definition: Overwhelming clinical syndrome associated with excessive macrophage activation and cytokine storm due to
age, however the disease ... : HLH signs and ... symptoms can mimic ... associated with multiple ... #management #treatment
Differentiating NBTE from Infective Endocarditis
No pathognomonic signs/symptoms or echo features that are specific to NBTE, and
pathognomonic signs ... /symptoms or echo ... cerebral emboli: Multiple ... - Infectious Diseases ... #Endocarditis #comparison
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Presentation: - Disease ... brainstem and multiple ... course of the disease ... fasciculations Common Symptoms ... #management