A 24-Year-Old Woman Comes to the Physician with a 3-Week

question 65

Multiple Choice

A 24-year-old woman comes to the physician with a 3-week history of progressive fatigue.  Physical examination shows lesions involving the nail beds, as seen in the photograph below. Further evaluation would most likely reveal additional abnormalities during which part of the physical examination?

• A)Neck palpation
• B)Lung auscultation
• C)Cardiac auscultation
• D)Abdominal palpation
• E)Rectal examination

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