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- Category: Abdominal Pain
- QUESTION: Are radiographs always indicated?
- Question: A patient with severe abdominal pain is found to be in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). How do I decide whether the abdominal pain is a manifestation of the DKA or whether a surgical condition has precipitated DKA?
- Question: Are air-fluid levels within the intestine always abnormal?
- QUESTION: Is there a place for narcotic analgesics in the management of acute abdominal pain of uncertain cause?
- QUESTION: What are the pitfalls in evaluating elderly patients with acute abdominal pain?
- QUESTION: What is the difference between localized and generalized peritonitis?
- Question: What is the difference between visceral and somatic pain, and how is this of practical importance?
- QUESTION: What is the relationship of peritoneal inflammation to loss of appetite?
- QUESTION: What other factors should be sought in the history that may alter significantly the presentation of patients with abdominal pain?
- Question: Which are the most useful preliminary laboratory tests to order?
- QUESTION: Which plain films are most useful?
- QUESTION: Which tests for peritoneal irritation are best?
- Question: Why is it important to establish the temporal relationship of pain to vomiting?
- Category: ACID/BAse and Electrolytes
- Category: Altered Mental Status and Coma
- Question: How can I perform a brief, directed physical examination on a patient with altered consciousness?
- Question: How can I remember the causes of coma and altered mental status?
- Question: How important is measuring the temperature of the comatose patient?
- Question: I think my patient is faking it. How can I tell if this is psychogenic coma?
- Question: I want to impress the attending physicians. Do you have any tips on physical examination that will let me assume my rightful position as star student?
- Question: What causes coma?
- Question: What important historical facts should be obtained from the patient with altered mental status or coma?
- Question: What information can be obtained from the eye examination of the comatose patient?
- Question: What is coma?
- Question: What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
- Question: What is the significance of other vital signs in patients with altered mental status?
- Question: When should I do a CT scan in comatose patient?
- Question: Which diagnostic tests should be obtained in the patient with a significantly altered level of consciousness?
- Question: Which radiographs should be obtained in the comatose patient?
- Category: Benign Lesions of the Vulva and Vagina
- Question: What are the benign pigmentary lesions of the vulva?
- Question: What are the vulvar, non-neoplastic epithelial disorders (previously called vulvar dystrophies)?
- Question: What is the vulva composed of?
- Question: What is vestibulitis? How is it managed?
- Question: What is vulvadynia? How is it managed?
- Question: Which lesions in the vagina result from abnormal development? How are they treated?
- Category: Breast Cancer
- Question: How are high-risk women identified?
- Question: How effective are chemotherapy agents in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer?
- Question: How is stage IV breast cancer treated?
- Question: How is the diagnosis of breast cancer established?
- Question: What are the current recommendations for screening for breast cancer?
- Question: What are the guidelines for stage II breast cancer?
- Question: What are the guidelines for stage III breast cancer.
- Question: What are the guidelines for treatment of stage I breast cancer?
- Question: What are the poor prognostic factors in primary breast cancer?
- Question: What can women do to reduce their risk of breast cancer?
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