Wednesday, 7 October 2015

FRUIT INSPIRED SIGNS IN MEDICINE


1. Apple core sign - colon ( colorectal carcinoma).

2. Apple peel appearence - intestinal atresia.

3. Apple core sign - femur. (synovial chondramatosis).

4 .Apple jelly appearence - lupus vulgaris.

5. Banana sign-chiarri malformation.

6. Banana #- paget disease.

7. Berry aneurysms - saccular aneurysm of cerebral artery.


8. Berry ligament- lateral thyrohyoid ligament.

9. Blueberrymuffin baby - congential CMV. INFECTION,toxoplasmosis,rubella

10.Bunch of grapes sign- hydatiform mole.

11. Pear shaped bladder-pelvic haematoma, bilateral lymphocoele.

12. Strawberry skull- Edward syndrome.

13. Strawberry gall bladder-diffuse cholesterolosis in the mucosa of GB.

14. Strawberry nevus - capillary haemanigoma.

15. Strawberry tongue -Kawasaki disease.

16. Strawberry cervix-Trichomonas vaginalis.

17. Cherry red spot - cherry red spot myoclonus syndrome.

18. Cherry angioma - senile haemanigoma.

19. Mulberry calculus- urinary calculus.

20. Mulberry spot- abdmonial eruption in typhus fever.

21.Mulberry molar - congenital syphilis.

22.Mulberry hypertrophy - Rhinitis medicamentosa.

23.Peau d' orange appearence - Breast carcinoma