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- Visual Survey
- General appearance (cachexia, superior vena cava obstruction, systemic sclerosis, lupus pernio, kyphoscoliosis, ankylosing spondylitis)
- Dyspnoea
- Lip pursing
- Cyanosis
- Accessory muscles
- Indrawing
- intercostal muscles
- supraclavicular fossae
- lower ribs)
- Chest wall
- upward movement
- asymmetry, scars, radiotherapy stigmata
- Clubbing
- tobacco staining
- coal dust tattoos
- rheumatoid deformity
- systemic sclerosis
- Pulse
- Venous pressure
- Trachea
- Lymphadenopathy
- Apex beat
- Asymmetry
- Expansion
- Percussion
- Tactile vocal fremitus
- Breath sounds
- Vocal resonance
- Repeat 14-19 on back of chest and feel for lymph nodes in the neck
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