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Abdo pain, ascites, hepatomegaly - ✔✔Budd-Chiari syndrome (post-hepatic venous
thrombosis)
Achilles tendon xanthoma - ✔✔Familial hypercholesteraemia (decrease in LDL receptor
signalling)
Adrenal haemorrhage, hypotension, DIC - ✔✔Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
(meningococcaemia)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints - ✔✔Marfan's
syndrome (fibrillin defect)
Athlete with polycythaemia - ✔✔2o to EPO injection
Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss - ✔✔Pott's disease (vertebral TB)
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, uveitis - ✔✔Sarcoidosis
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, Blue sclera - ✔✔Osteogenesis imperfecta (type 1 collagen defect)
Bluish line on gingiva - ✔✔Burton's line (lead poisoning)
Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis - ✔✔Paget's disease (increased osteoblast/clast
activity)
Bounding pulse, diastolic murmur, head bobbing - ✔✔Aortic regurg
"Butterfly" face rash & Raynaud's phenomenon in young women - ✔✔SLE
Cafe-au-lait spots, Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma) - ✔✔Neurofibromatosis Type 1
(+pheochromocytoma, optic gliomas)
Cafe-au-lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, multiple endocrine
abnormalities - ✔✔McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G-protein signalling mutation)
Calf pseudohypertrophy - ✔✔Muscular dystrophy (most commonly Duchenne's; X-
linked AR deletion of dystrophin gene)
"Cherry-red" spot on macula - ✔✔Tay-Sachs or Niemann-Pick disease, central retinal
artery occlusion
Chest pain on exertion - ✔✔Angina: stable (moderate exertion) or unstable
(minimal/no exertion)
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