Health Dictionary
Reliable, easy-to-read patient information on common medical conditions — written in plain language, free of jargon, and grounded in current evidence. Browse the most frequent diagnoses, understand what they mean for everyday life, and learn which steps and questions help you have a focused conversation with your doctor.
Acanthocytosis physical examination
Introduction
Physical Examination
Physical Examination
- Hematologic
- Ocular
- Progressive retinitis pigmentosa with loss of night vision, visual acuity, and color vision
- Nystagmus after age 10 years
- Ophthalmoplegia with strabismus
- Progressive exotropia
- Cataracts
- GI
- Abdominal distention
- Failure to thrive, with short stature and decreased weight
- Hepatomegaly
- Splenomegaly
- Ascites
- Neurologic
- Loss of deep tendon reflexes
- Decreased sensation to touch, pain, temperature, and position
- Stocking-glove distribution of hypoesthesia
- Decreased muscle strength
- Intention tremors and progressive ataxia with clumsiness and gait disturbances, dysarthria, dysdiadochokinesis, and dysmetria
- Chorea
- Mental retardation, cognitive decline, neuropsychological abnormalities
- Altered mental status
- Fatigue
- Cold intolerance
- Skin palmar erythema
- Spider angiomas
- Abdominal wall collateral veins
- Edema
- Recurrent skin infections
- Skeletomuscular
- Muscular atrophy
- Muscle contractures
- Kyphoscoliosis
- Pes cavus
- Pes equinovarus
References
References
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]