Physical Signs in the Chest

Signs in chest imaging.

A radiological sign can sometimes resemble a particular object or pattern and is often highly suggestive of a group of similar pathologies. Awareness of such similarities can shorten the differential diagnosis list. Many such signs have been described for X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images. In this article, we present the most frequently encountered plain film and CT signs in chest imagi...

PHYSICAL SIGNS False localising signs

Neurological signs have been described as “false localising” if they reflect dysfunction distant or remote from the expected anatomical locus of pathology, hence challenging the traditional clinicoanatomical correlation paradigm on which neurological examination is based. False localising signs occur in two major contexts: as a consequence of raised intracranial pressure, and with spinal cord l...

Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery

Symptoms and Physical Signs

This book contains, first, a scheme or syllabus to show the Pr?Per method for the systematic clinical investigation of disease, secondly, under the heading of the various organs, an index ? the chief symptoms and signs met with in different diseases. index also gives a brief account of some important symp?ms> of the alterations of the excretions in disease, and an ^planation of the scientific t...

The Physical Signs of Reasoning Madness

has been placed by the Press, the Bar, and the Magistracy. The necessity for adopting the precision which characterises modern medicine is illustrated by observing what now occurs in the dealings of an alienist in a court of law, where there is no longer any discussion as to where reason ends and insanity begins, where philosophical subtleties are dispensed with; where psychology is ignored, an...