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Fothergill's sign in rectus sheath hematomas, tender mass that does not cross the midline and remains palpable when patient tenses the
rectus muscle (bluish discoloration not usualy seen until 3 or 4 days)
What is Fothergill's sign ?
Bergman's triad is seen with fat emboli syndrome: 1) mental status changes
2) petechiae (often in the axilla/thorax)
3) dyspnea.
Chédiak-Higashi syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder, neutropenia, defective degranulation, and delayed microbial killing. Neutrophils and other
leukocytes have giant granules (can be seen on blood smears). Effect of microtubule polymerization causes delayed or
decreased fusion of lysosomes with phagosomes in leukocytes and thus impairs phagocytosis of bacteria.
What is Chédiak-Higashi syndrome ?
What is BERGMAN'S TRIAD ?
Curschmann's spirals are spirally twisted masses of mucus plugs containing whirls of shed epithelium occurring in the sputum in bronchial
asthma first described by Heinrich Curschmann, German physician, 1846-1910.
What are Curschmann's spirals ?
Westermark's sign in chest film is an abrupt tapering of a vessel caused by pulmonary embolism with focal oligemia.