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
- Oral cavity [caries?, inflammation of the oral mucosa?]
- Saliva or secretion
- Amount [decreased]
- Expressed (squeezed saliva or secretion) [turbid].
- Inspection (viewing).
- Cancer screening [examination of all lymph node stations [due topossible secondary disease: non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma].
- Ophthalmological examination [due todifferential diagnosis: keratitis (corneal inflammation)]
- ENT examination [due topossible sequelae: chronic cough irritation, dysphonia (hoarseness), rhinitis sicca].
- Health check
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.
