Enchondroma: Examination

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

• General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; further:
  • Inspection (viewing).
    • Skin and mucous membranes
    • Neck
    • Extremities:
      • [swelling? Size; consistency; displaceability of skin relative to underlying surface.
      • Deformity of joints and bones?]
    • Spine, thorax (chest).
  • Auscultation (listening) of the heart.
  • Auscultation of the lungs
  • Palpation (palpation) of the painful area [pressure pain, pain on movement, pain at rest?]
  • Palpation of the abdomen (belly), etc.
  • Checking the mobility of the painful area [functional limitation?]
• If necessary, orthopedic examination [due todifferential diagnoses:
  • Fibrous dysplasia – malformation of bone tissue, that is, the bones form tumor-like protrusions.
  • Ischemic bone necrosis (“bone infarction”) – demise of bone tissue]

  [due topossible sequelae:

  • Pathological fracture (bone fracture) (spontaneous fracture due to pathological (pathological) processes in the bone)].
• Health check

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