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Tall Stature28
ENDOCRINE CAUSES
MISCELLANEOUS SYNDROMES AND DISORDERS
• Cerebral gigantism or Sotos syndrome: prominent forehead, hypertelorism, high arched palate, dolichocephaly, mental retardation, large hands and feet, and premature eruption of teeth; large at birth, with most rapid growth in first 4 years of life
• Marfan syndrome: disorder of mesodermal tissues, subluxation of the lenses, arachnodactyly, aortic aneurysm
• Total lipodystrophy: large hands and feet, generalized loss of subcutaneous fat, insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus, hepatomegaly
Taste and Smell Loss1
TASTE
Thromboangiitis Obliterans
Thrombocytopenia
INCREASED DESTRUCTION
Immunologic
• Drugs: quinine, quinidine, digitalis, procainamide, thiazide diuretics, sulfonamides, phenytoin, aspirin, penicillin, heparin, gold, meprobamate, sulfa drugs, phenylbutazone, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), methyldopa, cimetidine, furosemide, isoniazid (INH), cephalosporins, chlorpropamide, organic arsenicals, chloroquine, platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors, ranitidine, indomethacin, carboplatin, ticlopidine, clopidogrel
Thyroiditis
• The hyperthyroid phase of Hashimoto’s, subacute, or silent thyroiditis can be mistaken for Graves’ disease.
Tinnitus
Torsades de Pointes23
Tourette’s Syndrome
Tuberculosis, Miliary
Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease14
Tumor Markers Elevation39
Causes of elevated levels of tumor markers:
CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN (CEA)
ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN
Turner’s Syndrome
• Noonan’s syndrome, an autosomally dominant inherited disorder also characterized by loose nuchal skin, midface hypoplasia, canthal folds, and stenotic cardiac valvular defects and affecting males and females equally; also have normal chromosome constitutions