Finding Resources Pages

The full set of SimulConsult's Resources pages is available to users of SimulConsult's diagnostic software, which may be used only by medical professionals (registration is free).  A small number of the Resources pages are available to the general public and those about findings are listed here:

• Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors produce improvement (Tensilon (edrophonium) test)
• Anus imperforate (anal atresia) or stenotic
• Anxiety, severe or excessive
• Arachnodactyly (long, slender fingers)
• Ascites (hydrops fetalis included)
• Ataxia (ataxic; dysmetria included)
• Attention deficit (ADD, ADHD)
• Aura preceding attacks
• Autism
• Blue sclerae
• Brachycephaly (short, broad skull)
• Cataracts or lenticular (lens) opacities
• Cardiomegaly, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure or left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) (endocardial fibroelastosis included)
• Choanal atresia or stenosis (nasal cavity to nasopharynx)
• Cleft lip
• Coloboma of the eyelid or eye
• Color blindness (achromatopsia)
• Coma, stupor or prolonged unconsciousness
• Corneal clouding, crystals, opacification, keratitis or dystrophy
• Craniosynostosis (craniostenosis)
• Creatine kinase (CK, CPK) high (without trauma)
• Deafness or hearing impairment
• Depression
• Dolichocephaly (scaphocephaly; head long in anterior-posterior axis; saggital suture fused)
• Dysphagia (swallowing difficulty, choking, oropharyngeal incoordination)
• Dystonic posturing (torsion dystonia, torticollis included)
• Ears: small (microtia, microtic)
• Ectrodactyly (congenital absence of some fingers or toes)
• Encephalocele (cerebral hernia, skull gap, facial cleft included)
• Eyelid eversion (ectropion)
• Eyes: blepharophimosis (narrowing of the horizontal aperture of the eyelids)
• Eyes: microphthalmia, anophthalmia, or enophthalmia (deep set, recession)
• Eyes: posterior embryotoxon (prominent Schwalbe's ring; anterior chamber defect)
• Eyes: pupils small (tonic, miosis; microcoria)
• Facial weakness (facial monoplegia or diplegia)
• Gastroschisis (herniation of stomach through abdominal wall))
• Glaucoma or increased intraocular pressure
• Hair: hypotrichosis: sparse, partial or total alopecia, atrichia, or balding
• Hands, feet or digits small, short or stubby (brachydactyly included)
• Headache or migraine, recurrent
• Heart (cardiac) disease, structural, valvular or septal defect (ASD, VSD)
• Hernia, diaphragmatic
• Hernia (inguinal or umbilical) or omphalocele (exomphalos)
• Hyperactivity (hyperactive, hyperkinetic behavior)
• Hypersomnia (sleeping excessive durations)
• Hypertelorism (large interpupillary distance; dystopia canthorum included)
• Hypertonia (high muscle tone, rigid, stiff, part of spasticity)
• Hypogonadism, hypogenitalism or cryptorchidism (testes undescended)
• Hypospadias in males (abnormal position of urethra opening)
• Hypotension (blood pressure low; orthostatic/postural hypotension included)
• Hypotonia (low muscle tone)
• Insomnia (sleep disturbance)
• Intellectual impairment (delay, dementia, cognitive mental retardation)
• Iris: aniridia (absent), hypoplasia or shape abnormalities
• Iris or cornea: abnormal coloration, speckling (Brushfield spots included), hamartomas (Lisch), or Kayser-Fleischer rings
• Joint dislocations (subluxations), frequent or major
• Joint limitations, contractures, flexion/adduction deformity, arthrogryposis, campylodactyly, camptodactyly, clinodactyly, ankylosis
• Laryngeal cleft
• Lethargy, extreme drowsiness or hypersomnolence (excessive sleepiness in daytime)
• Marcus Gunn jaw winking
• Meningomyelocele
• Micrognathia (retrognathia; small jaw, especially mandible)
• Muscular hypertrophy or pseudohypertrophy (lipoatrophy part of lipodystrophy of muscle fat included)
• Myoclonus (myoclonic jerks) or excessive startle response (hyperexplexia included)
• Nipple anomaly (accessory nipples (polythelia), abnormal location, hypoplastic)
• Nystagmus, jerk or pendular (jerky saccades included)
• Obsessive-compulsive behavior (OCD)
• Odor, unusual smell (urine, breath, sweat, feet, ear wax)
• Olfactory (smell) impairment (hyposmia) or anosmia
• Oligodactyly (reduction in number of fingers or toes) or missing parts of digits (absent thumbs included)
• Oligohydramnios (too little amniotic fluid)
• Optic nerve (disc) abnormality, atrophy or pallor
• Pain in limbs, joints or muscle (myalgia, arthralgia, tenderness)
• Palate abnormalities (cleft or velopharyngeal incompetence)
• Pectus excavatum or carinatum (projecting, keel shaped)
• Pes (talipes) equinus, clubfoot, toe walking, Achilles tendon (heel cord) contractures
• Plagiocephaly (parallelogram head shape)
• Polydactyly or marked syndactyly (webbing, fusion)
• Polyhydramnios (excess amniotic fluid) during gestation
• Regression (loss of milestones)
• Reflexes increased (hyperreflexia, part of spasticity, pyramidal signs)
• Respiratory disturbance (apnea, dyspnea, breathing difficulty, stridor, tachypnea, hyperventilation)
• Retinal hemorrhages
• Retinal pigmentary abnormalities (retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, tapetoretinal degeneration, chorioretinal lacunae included)
• Scapula malpositioned (Sprengel deformity included)
• Scoliosis with or without kyphosis (kyphoscoliosis)
• Seizures, nonfebrile (epilepsy included)
• Single transverse palmar crease (Simian)
• Skin: collodion-like (tight, shiny)
• Skin: defects, fistulae or sinuses (branchial clefts included)
• Skin: hard lesions (warts, verrucae, keratoses, cutaneous horns or angiokeratomas included)
• Skin: hyperpigmented lesions (nevi, cafe au lait spots, lentigines, acanthosis nigricans included)
• Skin: subcutaneous fat increased (lipohypertrophy part of lipodystrophy)
• Skin or conjunctiva with hemangiomas (telangiectasias, other vascular lesions included)
• Speech: abnormal sound character (dysarthria, slurred, dysphonia, voice nasal, dysarticulation included)
• Spine: dysrhaphia, spina bifida or sacral defect (neural tube)
• Stroke, thromboembolic tendency, cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)
• Tics (limbs or face), grimacing or abnormal vocalizations
• Tinnitus (ringing in ears; buzzing, humming included)
• Tongue: large or protruding (macroglossia)
• Torus palatinus (bony outgrowth in palate)
• Tremor of limbs or head (head tituabation included)
• Trigonocephaly (triangle-shaped skull)
• Visual impairment (blindness, amaurosis, hemianopsia, vision loss included)