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Acute Pharyngitis: Differential Diagnosis
Infectious:
 • Respiratory viruses (25-45%)
 • Group A Strep (5-15%)
 • Other bacteria:
gonorrhoeae, Treponema pallidum ... intubation) • Malignancy
Syphilis - Treponema Pallidum - Overview
 • History
 • Diagnosis
 • Transmission
 • Stages
 • Treatment

by
Syphilis - Treponema Pallidum ... Syphilis #Treponema #Pallidum
Since these risk factors are numerous and have different effects on the malignancy risk, it is
effects on the malignancy ... probability of malignancy ... #Probability #Malginancy
Dyspnea - Considerations with Malignancy
Directly Malignancy Related:
 - Lymphangitic spread to lung
 - Malignant pleural effusion
Considerations with Malignancy ... Directly Malignancy ... spread to lung - Malignant ... pleural effusion - Malignant ... Therapy-related malignancy
Genital Ulcer - Differential Algorithm
Painful
 - H. ducreyi (Chancroid)
 - HSV
Painless
 - T pallidum (Chancre)
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Painless - T pallidum
Presentation of malignant disease in children 
Pre-school (<5 years old) 
 - Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Presentation of malignant ... Hodgkin lymphoma - Malignant ... tissue sarcomas #Malignancy ... #Presentation #Malignant
Cough - Diagnostic Schema

Infectious: URTI, LRTI, Bacterial, Viral
Irritant/Exposure: Allergic, Post-infectious, Pneumonitis, ACEi, PTX, Foreign Body
Airway Disease:
Vasculitis, ILD Malignancy ... Metastatic Dz, Malignant
Size
A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is defined as a single intraparenchymal lesion less than 3 cm
cm are usually malignant ... either benign or malignant ... the chance of malignancy ... size, none was malignant ... MalignancyRisk #Malignancy
Typical therapeutic applications of Tetracyclines (Doxycycline)
Gram (+) cocci: Staphylococcus aureus (including methicillin-resistant strains), Streptococcus pneumoniae
Gram (+)
interrogans, Treponema pallidum
Pulmonary Nodule
Evaluation is guided by nodule size & assessment of probability of malignancy. In addition is
probability of malignancy ... be considered malignant ... probability of malignancy ... probability of malignancy ... A malignant nodule