Calcium Excess (Hypercalcemia): Examination

A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:

• General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body temperature, body weight, body height; further:
  • Inspection (viewing).
    • Skin, mucous membranes and sclerae (white part of the eye).
    • Oral cavity
    • Pharynx (throat)
    • Abdomen (abdomen)
      • Shape of the abdomen?
      • Skin color? Skin texture?
      • Efflorescences (skin changes)?
      • Pulsations? Bowel movements?
      • Visible vessels?
      • Scars? Hernias (fractures)?
  • Auscultation (listening) of the heart.
  • Examination of the lungs (due topossible secondary diseases).
    • Auscultation of the lungs
  • Examination of the abdomen (abdomen)
    • Auscultation of the abdomen [vascular or stenotic sounds?, bowel sounds?]
    • Percussion (tapping) of the abdomen.
      • Meteorism (flatulence): hypersonoric tapping sound.
      • Attenuation of tapping sound due to enlarged liver or spleen, tumor, urinary retention?
    • Palpation (palpation) of the abdomen (abdomen) (tenderness?, knocking pain?, coughing pain?, defensive tension?, hernial orifices?, kidney bearing knocking pain?).
• Health check

Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.