Short stature causes
Rickets
Endocrine (cretinism, hypopituitarism, Cushing's)
Turner syndrome
Achondroplasia
Respiratory(suppurative lung disease)
Down syndrome
Hereditary
Environmental (postirradiation, postinfectious)
IUGR
GI (malabsorption)
Heart (congenital heart disease)
Tilted backbone (scoliosis)
Mnemonic:
RETARD HEIGHT
Endocrine (cretinism, hypopituitarism, Cushing's)
Turner syndrome
Achondroplasia
Respiratory(suppurative lung disease)
Down syndrome
Hereditary
Environmental (postirradiation, postinfectious)
IUGR
GI (malabsorption)
Heart (congenital heart disease)
Tilted backbone (scoliosis)
Mnemonic:
RETARD HEIGHT
More mnemonics in this category
- Abdominal Assessment
- Abdominal swelling causes
- Altered Level of Consciousness: Reasons
- Breast history checklist
- Cause of symptoms
- Clinical examination: initial Inspection of patient from end of bed
- Differential diagnosis checklist
- Family history (FH)
- Fetal Monitoring
- Four point physical assessment of a disease
- Glasgow coma scale: components and numbers
- Head Trauma: rapid neuro exam
- Heart valve auscultation sites
- History
- Medical history: disease checklist
- Mental state examination: stages in order
- Neurovascular Assessment
- Ocular bobbing vs. dipping
- Orthopaedic Assessment
- Pain history checklist
- Past medical history (PMH)
- Patient examination organization
- Patient profile (PP)
- Physical exam for 'lumps and bumps'
- Physical examination - correct order
- Pupillary dilation (persistent): causes
- Sign vs. symptom
- Surgical sieve for diagnostic categories
- Surgical sieve for diagnostic categories (alternate)
- Toxicological seizures: Causes
- Trauma assessment
- Vomiting: non-GIT differential