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).
- Gait pattern (fluid, limping)
- Body or joint posture (upright, bent, gentle posture).
- Malpositions (deformities, contractures, shortenings).
- Joint (swelling (tumor), redness (rubor), hyperthermia (calor); injury indications such as hematoma formation, leg axis assessment)]
- 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.
- Inspection (viewing).
- ENT examination[due todifferential diagnoses:
- Maxillary sinus empyema – accumulation of pus in the maxillary sinuses.
- Maxillary sinus mycosis – fungal disease of the maxillary sinuses.
- Jaw cysts
- Pneumosinus dilatans (rare) – dilatation (widening) of the paranasal sinuses due to a dysfunctional valve mechanism.
- Sinusitis (sinusitis)]
- Health check
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.
