List of Pathognomonic Signs

PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN is used in the field of medicine for it gives the doctors a hint of the disease condition the client is experiencing. It is also termed as “Hallmark Signs” which means it is the outstanding characteristic of a pathologic condition.

 Here is the list of common diseases with their corresponding pathognomonic signs:

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• ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM- Pulsating abdominal mass
• ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA- Auer Rods
• ADDISON’S DISEASE- Bronze Skin Pigmentation
• ANGINA PECTORIS- Levine’s Sign
• APPENDICITIS- Blumberg’s Sign
• ASBESTOSIS- Fer
• ASTHMA- Wheezing Inspiration
• BASILAR FRACTURE- Racoon’s Eye
• BUERGER’S DISEASE- Intermittent Claudication
• BULIMIA NERVOSA- Chipmunk face, Russell’s Sign
• CATARACT- Cloudy Vision
• CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING- Cherry Red Face
• CARDIAC TAMPONADE- Muffled Heart Sound
• CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME- Tinnel’s Sign
• CEREBRAL PALSY- Scissor gait
• CHOLECYSTITIS- Murphy’s Sign
• CHOLERA- Rice-watery stool
• COARCTATION OF THE AORTA- Notching of Ribs
• CONGENITAL HIP DYSPLASIA- Ortholani’s Click
• CRI-DU-CHAT SYNDROME- Cat Cry
• CUSHING’S DISEASE- Moonface, Trunkal Obesity, Buffalo Hump
• CVA- Homonymous Hemianopsia
• DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS- Homan’s Sign
• DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS – Kussmaul’s Respiration
• DIPHTHERIA- Pseudomembrane
• DOWN SYNDROME- Single Crease on the palm
• DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY- Gower’s Sign
• EMPHYSEMA- Barrel Chest
• ENDOMETRIOSIS- Chocolate cyst
• FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME- Facial abnormalities
• FIFTH’S DISEASE- Redness of the cheeks
• FILARIASIS- Lymphangitis
• GERD- Barett’s Esophagus
• GERMAN MEASLES- Forscheimer’s Spot
• GLAUCOMA- Halos around light
• GOUTY ARTHRITIS- Tophi
• GRAVE’S DISEASE- Exopthalmos
• GUILLAN BARRE SYNDROME- ascending paralysis
• HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY- Asterixis
• HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE- Ribbon-like Stool
• HERNIATED NUCLEOUS PULPOSUS- Lasegue’s Sign
• HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA- Reed-sternberg cell
• HYDROCEPHALUS- Bossing’s Sign
• HYPERTHYROIDISM- Exopthalmos
• HYPOCALCEMIA- Chvostek & Trousseau Sign
• INTUSSUSCEPTION- Currant-jelly stool
• KAWASAKI DISEASE- Strawberry Tongue
• LEPROSY- Lion Facies
• LIVER CIRRHOSIS- Spider Angioma, Caput Medusae
• MEASLES- Koplik’s Spot
• MENINGITIS- Nuchal Rigidity, Brudzinski & Kernigs Sign
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS- Nystagmus
• MYASTHENIA GRAVIS- Ptosis
• OSTEOARTHRITIS- Heberden’s node, Buckards Node
• OSTEOPOROSIS- Dowager’s hump
• PARKINSON’S DISEASE- Pill-rolling hand tremors
• PANCREATITIS- Cullen’s Sign
• PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS- machine-like murmur
• PERICARDITIS- Pericardial Friction Rub
• PERNICIOUS ANEMIA- Red Beefy Tongue
• PERTUSSIS- Barking cough
• PHEMPHINGUS- Nikolsky Sign
• PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA- Rusty Sputum
• POTT’S DISEASE- Gibbus Formation
• PULMONARY EDEMA- Pink Frothy Sputum
• PYLORIC STENOSIS- Olive-shaped mass, Projectile Vomiting
• RABIES- Hydrophobia
• RETINAL DETACHMENT- Veil-like vision
• RETINOBLASTOMA- Cat’s Eye
• RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS- Swan Neck Deformity
• SCARLET FEVER- Pastia Lines, Raspberry Tongue
• SCOLIOSIS- Uneven shoulders
• SYPHILIS- Chancre
• SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS- Butterfly Rash
• TETANUS- Trismus, Lock Jaw
• TETRALOGY OF FALLOT- Boot-shaped Heart
• TUBERCULOSIS- Night sweats, Low Grade Afternoon Fever
• TYPHOID FEVER- Rose spots