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Warts

• Molluscum contagiosum
• Condyloma latum
• Acrochordon (skin tags) or seborrheic keratosis
• Epidermal nevi
• Hypertrophic actinic keratosis
• Squamous cell carcinomas
• Acquired digital fibrokeratoma
• Varicella zoster virus in patients with AIDS
• Recurrent infantile digital fibroma
• Plantar corns (may be mistaken for plantar warts)

Weakness, Acute, Emergent27

• Demyelinating disorders (Guillain-Barré, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [CIDP])
• Myasthenia gravis
• Infectious (poliomyelitis, diphtheria)
• Toxic (botulism, tick paralysis, paralytic shellfish toxin, puffer fish, newts)
• Metabolic (acquired or familial hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia, hypermagnesemia)
• Metals poisoning (arsenic, thallium)
• Porphyria

Weakness, Gradual Onset

• Depression
• Malingering
• Anemia
• Hypothyroidism
• Medications (e.g., sedatives, antidepressants, narcotics)
• Congestive heart failure (CHF)
• Renal failure
• Liver failure
• Respiratory insufficiency
• Alcoholism
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Disorders of motor unit
• Basal ganglia disorders
• Upper motor neuron lesions

Wegener’s Granulomatosis

• Other granulomatous lung diseases (e.g., lymphomatoid granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis, bronchocentric granulomatosis, sarcoidosis)
• Neoplasms
• Goodpasture’s syndrome
• Bacterial or fungal sinusitis
• Midline granuloma
• Viral infections

Weight Gain

• Sedentary lifestyle
• Fluid overload
• Discontinuation of tobacco abuse
• Endocrine disorders (hypothyroidism, hyperinsulinism associated with maturity-onset diabetes mellitus [DM], Cushing’s syndrome, hypogonadism, insulinoma, hyperprolactinemia, acromegaly)
• Medications (e.g., nutritional supplements, oral contraceptives, glucocorticoids)
• Anxiety disorders with compulsive eating
• Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, other congenital diseases
• Hypothalamic injury (rare; <100 cases reported in medical literature)

Weight Loss

• Malignant disease
• Psychiatric disorders (depression, anorexia nervosa)
• New-onset diabetes mellitus (DM)
• Malabsorption
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• AIDS
• Uremia, liver disease
• Thyrotoxicosis, pheochromocytoma, carcinoid syndrome
• Addison’s disease
• Intestinal parasites
• Peptic ulcer disease (PUD)
• Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• Food faddism
• Postgastrectomy syndrome

Wernicke’s Encephalopathy

• Thiamine deficiency, including alcohol abuse, malnutrition, and iatrogenic cause
• Stroke, mass lesion, or trauma affecting upper brainstem, thalamus, and associated structures

West Nile Virus Infection

• Meningitis or encephalitis caused by more common viruses (e.g., enteroviruses, herpes simplex)
• Bacterial meningitis
• Vasculitis
• Fungal meningitis (e.g., cryptococcal infection)
• Tuberculous meningitis

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