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Portable Thermographic Screening for Detection of Acute Wallenberg's Syndrome
Published on: September 19, 2019
[Satellite manifestations of internal diseases]
E Portugal Fernández del Rivero1, J Portugal Alvarez, A del Castillo Rueda
1Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
Aims:
Define the concept of satellite manifestations (SM) and to determine the number and types of them that appear in the diseases of each one of the subspecialties of the Internal Medicine.
Methods:
290 diseases are reviewed in agreements of Internal Medicine and specialties books and in each one are described the types of SM that they present.
Results:
The respiratory diseases are the group that more SM presents and the less one the neurological. The most frequent type of SM are dermatological. The diseases that have more variety of types of SM are the endocrinologicals. Analyzing the percentages of every type of SM in relation with the number of diseases of every group, the highest are the dermatological SM in cardiac diseases.
Conclusions:
The SM are a very frequent phenomenon in the current medical practice and express the holistic character of the disease. His knowledge is indispensable in the internal medicine and subspecialties, where they can suppose a help in the diagnoses, though a bad knowledge of his reality can mean the opposite.
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