NBME 20 Subcutaneous crepitus (NBME Answers)
medstudent65 Crepitus is used to describe bone-on-bone grinding. Subcutaneous crepitus is very specific sound referencing air finding its way into the skin which you can hear but also feel by …
NBME 20
Question#44 (reveal difficulty score) A 43-year-old woman, gravida 2, para 1, at 10 ... Nuchal translucency (fetal ultrasound): increased;
NBME 18 Subcutaneous tissue (NBME Answers)
The subcutaneous tissue is highly vascularized and has larger blood vessels than the dermis, leading to a higher risk of metastasis and worse prognosis (TNM staging system) get full …
NBME Free 120 α-Toxin (NBME Answers)
Gram-positive rods in a diabetic foot wound (or a World War I soldier fighting in a trench) means Clostridium perfringens (the causative organism of gas gangrene). Crepitus means gas in the …
NBME 21 C1 esterase inhibitor (binds activated C1r, C1s) (NBME …
Hereditary angioedema (HAE) caused by C1-esterase inhibitor deficiency is an autosomal-dominant disease resulting from a mutation in the C1-inhibitor gene. HAE is characterized by …
NBME Step 2 CK Form 7 Mitral valve incompetence (NBME Answers)
NBME Answer (Retired!) Explanations — Updated daily. Child with strep throat (throat culture and increased ASO titer) who presents with joint pain and a new 3/6 holosystolic murmur at the …
NBME Step 2 CK Form 8 Surgical debridement (NBME Answers)
NBME Answer (Retired!) Explanations — Updated daily. Middle-aged man with diabetes who presents with severe pain in the scrotum, fever, and confusion with bullae and crepitus over …
NBME 23 Serum sickness (NBME Answers)
bumping the OP; extraarticular manifestations are common in RA (i.e. rheumatoid nodules in subcutaneous tissue and lung (+ pneumoconiosis --> Caplan syndrome), interstitial lung …
NBME 24 HIV (NBME Answers)
NBME Answer (Retired!) Explanations — Updated daily. pretty straightforward question but another thing you couldd do is figure out his lymphocyte count 5%x2000 = 100 which would …
NBME 23 Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (NBME Answers)
The patient started receiving post-surgical subcutaneous anticoagulation therapy, so most likely either unfractionated heparin or low molecular weight (LMW) heparin. Unfractionated heparin's …