- Body Systems
- Health Care
- Threats to Health
- Healthy Living
Head and Neck Physical Exam
Ears
retracted? bulging?
Nose
anterhinoscopy
- symmetry
- polyps
- mocosa
- lesions
- discharge (mucousy,purulent, etc)
- vessels
Oral Cavity
- lips
- teeth
- inferior alveolar ridge
- superoir alveolar ridge
- palate (hard and soft)
- uvula
Oropharynx
past the tonsilar columns
tonsils
- 1+ just visible
- 2+ extending to 50%
- 3+ 50-75%
- 4+ touching at midline
posterior wall
- erythema
- lesions
- plaques
larynx
Neck
inspection
- swelling
- erythema
- atrophy
- deformity
- scars
lymph nodes
Thyroid
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