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Head, Face Neck
Jarvis Chapter 13: Head, Face and Neck
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
01/16/2010

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Nodes are bilateral, enlarged, warm, tender, and firm but freely movable
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Acute infection
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Clumped nodes commonly seen in tuberculosis
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Chronic inflammation
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Nodes are hard, unilateral, nontender and fixed
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Cancerous
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Nodes are enlarged, firm, nontender and mobile. Most common in Occipital node.
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HIV infection
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Single node, enlarged, nontender, hard, left suprclavicular node (Virchow's Node)
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Neoplasm in thorax or abdomen
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Node is painless, rubbery, discrete and apper gradually.
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Hodgkin's disease
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Cranial bones and sutures
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Bones: Frontal, Parietal, Occipital and Temporal

Sutures: Coronal, Sagittal and Lambdoid
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Lyphnodes of Head and Neck:
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Head: Preauricular, Posterior auricular, Occipital, Submental, Submandibular

Neck: Superficial Cervical, Deep Cervical Chain, Posterior Cervical and Supraclavicular
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4 places in the body lymphnodes are accessible for examination.
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Head and Neck, Arms, Axillae and inguinal region
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Acute onset of neck stiffness, headache and fever are symptoms of what?
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meningitis
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If Thyroid is enlarged auscultate for __________, which if heard could be a sign of ____________.
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Bruit, Hyperthyroidism
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Newborns

Edema and ecchymosis on presenting part of head, Most common type of birth trauma, Crosses suture line, Resolves during 1st few days of life

Subperiosteal bleeding, Birth trauma, Well defined over one cranial bone, Does not cross suture line, May persist up to 3 months, > risk for jaundice
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Caput succedaneum

Cephalhematoma
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Skull sutures ossify at __ yrs.

Posterior fontanel closes at ___mths.

Anterior fontanel closes at ___ mths.
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6
2
24
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bulging eyes, nervousness, fatigue, goiter, weightloss, sweating, short breath, staring, silky hair and skin
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Hyperthyroidism (Grave's disease)
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face is puffy esp. eyes, coarse and dry hair
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Hypothyroidism (Myxedema)
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localized bone diesase bowed out forehead, if bone is soft/ risk for fractures frontal bossing
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Paget's disease
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elongated head, jaw nose, coarse facial features, pituitary after puberty
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Acromegaly
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common w/ mumps, tumor blockage of duct
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Parotid gland enlargement
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hardening and shrinking of skin, shiny face, pursed lips, absent of expression, face of stone
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Scleroderma
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lower motor neuron leasion, CN 7 paralysis, will get better with time in most cases, can not control droopy side
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Bell’s Palsy
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obstruction or rupture by cerebral vessel, paralysis of lower facial muscles, will not resolve
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CVA or stroke
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inutero limited ROM, tight neck muscles
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Torticollis
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abnormal chromosomes, upslanting eyes, flat nasal bridge, short broad neck, thick protruding tongue
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Down’s Syndrome
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obstruction of cerebral fluid drainage results in excessive accumulation and enlargement of the head…characterized by an enlarged cranium, see veins are dialated
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Hydrocephalus
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narrowing between eyelids, thin upper lip, short nose, low bridge, abnomalies in ears
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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# moon face, facial hair growth, rash on chests, if in children = adrenal tumor
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Cushing’s syndrome
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thyroid deficiency. In children low hair line, swollen eyelids , low spaced eyes, fontanels wide open
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Congenital Hypothyroidism
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part of skull does not close, base of skull, runs midline down
Definition
Encephalocele
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