| The physician should check the chest and lungs for signs of consolidation, wheezing, rales, and trauma. |
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| Examination of the lungs may initially reveal focal rales that will eventually become diffuse. |
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| Six of the 11 patients had coarse, bibasilar rales, and two reported orthopnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. |
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| Physical exam is usually unremarkable with the exception of basilar rales in some patients. |
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| The physical exam may be normal or the lung exam may reveal fine rales or wheezes. |
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| For my preceptor, similarly, those wet rales were as recognizable as a familiar jingle. |
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| Physical examination of the lungs may reveal rales and pleural effusions. |
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| Although signs of consolidation are frequently present, reduced breath sounds and occasional rales may be the only physical findings in tularemic pneumonia. |
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| Inspiratory basilar rales that persist after cough is typical in asbestosis. |
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| No rhonchi or rales were heard and bronchoscopically no obvious stenosis or obstruction was seen in the trachea or bronchi. |
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| Bilateral rales and rhonchi were noted throughout the lungs, with decreased air movement, more prominent in the right lung than left lung. |
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| Pneumonia is often characterized by crepitant rales coming from within the patient's chest. |
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| He described murmurs and thrills, pectoriloquy, egophony, bronchophony, a variety of rales, and normal and abnormal lung sounds. |
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| He had low blood pressure, and physical examination revealed gynecomastia, bilateral atrophied testis, and bibasilar rales. |
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