Diagnostic vaginal discharge~

Candida vaginitis

• organism: Candida albicans
• pH <>
• branching hyphae

Bacterial vaginosis

• clue cells
• amine odor

Trichomonas vaginitis

• organism: Trichomonas vaginalis
• unicellular flagellated organism
• flagellar motion on a saline wet smear

Chlamydia & Syphilis

• no diagnostic vaginal discharge

Aortic insufficiency~

• diastolic murmur
• Corrigan's pulse (water-hammer pulse)
• de Musset's sign (head bobbing)
• Traube's sign (pistol shot sound over the femoral artery)
• Duroziez's sign (to-and-fro murmur over the femoral artery)
• Quincke's pulse (capillary pulsation in the nail beds)
• Hill's sign (politeal artery pressure greatly increased over brachial pressure

Malignant Melanoma~

Remember ABCDE's:

• A- Asymmetric shape
• B- Borders irregular
• C -Color variation
• D- Diameter > 6 mm
• E- Enlargement & Evolution of lesion

Lichen Planus~

Remember 5 P's

• Purple
• Polygonal
• Pruritic
• Planar
• Papules

Erytema Infectiosum~

• also known as Fifth disease
• remember slapped cheek appearance!

Potter's sequence~

• bilateral renal agenesis
• causing mother to have oligohydramnios
• lung hypoplasia

Picture

Howell-Jolly bodies~

• small,spherical, nuclear remnants
• seen in the reticulocytes and rarely, erythrocytes of persons who have no spleen (because of congenital asplenia or splenectomy) or poorly functioning spleen (eg in hyposplenism a/w sickle cell disease)

Noonan's Syndrome~

It is a male version of Turner's Syndrome!

Pyloric Stenosis~

Pocture below shows string sign

After the string sign, there was something like a mushroom. It was called as mushroom sign = kirklin sign.
Always remember hypocloremic, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis!