Common SURGICAL sign

Question 1

Pus or fluid in external ear canal seen through otoscopy conducted with the patient blowing against pinched nose

Answer 1

Angel sign

Tympanic membrane perforation

Question 2

Bruising over the mastoid process

Answer 2

Battle sign

Basal skull fractures

Question 3

Absent or muffled carotid pulse

Answer 3

Berry sign

Advance thyroid malignancy encasing carotid

Question 4

Pus from mastoiditis escapes into the sternocleidomastoid muscle

Answer 4

Bezold abscess

Mastoiditis

Question 5

Blanching of a purple-red middle ear mass with positive pressure during pneumatic otoscopy

Answer 5

Brown sign

Glomus tumor

Question 6

Hypertension
Bradycardia
Irregular respiration

Answer 6

Cushing’s response

Late sign of increased ICP

Question 7

Bilateral infection of the submandibular space

Answer 7

Ludwig angina

Infected 2nd and 3rd mandibular molar teeth

Question 8

Skin redness overlying the thyroid

Answer 8

Maroni sign

Hyperthyroidism

Question 9

Thinning or loss of the lateral part of the eyebrow

Answer 9

Queen Ann Sign

Hypothyroidism