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Classic findings: Actinic keratosis
Often precedes squamous cell carcinoma
Classic findings: Albright's syndrome
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, cafe-au-lait spots, short stature, young girls
Classic findings: Albuminocytologic dissociation
Guillain-Barre (inc'd protein in CSF with only modest inc in cell count)
Classic findings: Alport's syndrome
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Classic findings: Anti-basement membrane antibodies
Goodpasture's syndrome
Classic findings: Anticentromere antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
Classic findings: Anti-double-stranded DNA antibodies (ANA antibodies)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
Classic findings: Anti-epithelial cell antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris
Classic findings: Antigliadin antibodies
Celiac disease
Classic findings: Antihistone antibodies
Drug-induced SLE
Classic findings: Anti-IgG antibodies
Rheumatoid arthritis
Classic findings: Antimitochondrial antibodies
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Classic findings: Antineutrophil antibodies
Vasculitis
Classic findings: Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) aka Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Classic findings: Arachnodactyly
Marfan's syndrome
Classic findings: Argyll Robertson pupil
Neurosyphilis
Classic findings: Arnold-Chiari malformation
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation (Type 2 causes hydrocephalus, syringomyelia)
Classic findings: Aschoff bodies
Rheumatic fever
Classic findings: Auer rods
Acute myelogenous leukemia (especially the promyelocytic type)
Classic findings: Autosplenectomy
Sickle cell anemia
Classic findings: Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa
Rheumatoid arthritis
Classic findings: Bartter's syndrome
Hyperreninemia
Classic findings: Basophilic stippling on RBCs
Lead poisoning
Classic findings: Becker's muscular dystrophy
Defective dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne's
Classic findings: Bell's palsy
LMN CN VII palsy (affects upper and lower face)
Classic findings: Bence Jones proteins
Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine), Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM)
Classic findings: Berger's disease
IgA nephropathy
Classic findings: Bernard-Soulier disease
Defect in platelet adhesion
Classic findings: Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis
Sarcoidosis
Classic findings: Birbeck granules on EM (tennis racket shape)
Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma)
Classic findings: Bloody tap on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Classic findings: Blue-domed cysts
Fibrocystic change of the breast
Classic findings: Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Classic findings: Bouchard's nodes
Osteoarthritis (PIP swelling secondary to osteophytes)
Classic findings: Boutonniere deformity
Rheumatoid arthritis
Classic findings: Branching rods in oral infection
Actinomyces israelii
Classic findings: Bruton's disease
X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Classic findings: Budd-Chiari syndrome
Posthepatic venous thrombosis
Classic findings: Buerger's disease
Small/medium-artery vasculitis with gangrene, caused by smoking (thromboangiitis obliterans)
Classic findings: Burton's lines
Lead poisoning
Classic findings: c-ANCA
Wegener's granulomatosis
Classic findings: Cafe-au-lait spots on skin
Neurofibromatosis
Classic findings: Caisson disease
Gas emboli
Classic findings: Calf pseudohypertrophy
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
Classic findings: Call-Exner bodies
Granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary
Classic findings: Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Chaga's disease
Classic findings: Cerebriform nuclei
Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma)
Classic findings: Chancre
Primary syphilis (not painful)
Classic findings: Chancroid
Haemophilus ducreyi (painful)
Classic findings: Charcot's triad (nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech)
Multiple sclerosis (nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech)
Classic findings: Charcot-Leyden crystals
Bronchial asthma (eosinophil membranes)
Classic findings: Chediak-Higashi disease
Phagocyte deficiency
Classic findings: Cherry-red spot on macula
Tay-Sachs, Niemann-Pick disease, central retinal artery occlusion
Classic findings: Cheyne-Stokes respirations
Central apnea in CHF and inc'd intracranial pressure
Classic findings: Chronic atrophic gastritis
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma
Classic findings: Chvostek's sign
Hypocalcemia (facial muscle spasm upon tapping)
Classic findings: Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
Classic findings: Clue cells
Gardnerella vaginitis
Classic findings: Codman's triangle on x-ray
Osteosarcoma
Classic findings: Cold agglutinins
Mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis
Classic findings: Cold intolerance
Hypothyroidism
Classic findings: Condylomata lata
Secondary syphilis
Classic findings: Cotton-wool spots
Chronic hypertension (eye)
Classic findings: Cough, conjunctivitis, coryza + fever
Measles
Classic findings: Councilman bodies
Hepatitis
Classic findings: Cowdry type A bodies
Herpesvirus
Classic findings: Crescents in Bowman's capsule
Rapidly progressive (crescentic) glomerulonephritis
Classic findings: Crigler-Najjar syndrome
Congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Classic findings: Curling's ulcer
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Classic findings: Currant-jelly sputum
Klebsiella
Classic findings: Curschmann's spirals
Bronchial asthma (whorled mucous plugs)
Classic findings: Cushing's ulcer
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Classic findings: D-dimers
DIC
Classic findings: Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson's disease (basal ganglia disorder--rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)
Classic findings: Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (niacin, vitamin B3 deficiency)
Classic findings: Diabetes insipidus + exophthalmos + lesions of skull
Hand-Schuller-Christian disease
Classic findings: Dog or cat bite
Pasteurella multocida
Classic findings: Donovan bodies
Granuloma inguinale
Classic findings: Dressler's syndrome
Post-MI fibrinous pericarditis
Classic findings: Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Classic findings: Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
Deleted dystrophyn gene (X-linked recessive)
Classic findings: Eburnation
Osteoarthritis (polished, ivory-like appearance of bone)
Classic findings: Edwards' syndrome
Trisomy 18 associated with rocker-bottom feet, low-set ears, heart disease
Classic findings: Eisenmenger's complex
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L-->R shunt becomes R-->L shunt)
Classic findings: Elastic skin
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Classic findings: Erythema chronicum migrans
Lyme disease
Classic findings: Fanconi's syndrome
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Classic findings: Fatty liver
Alcoholism
Classic findings: Ferruginous bodies
Asbestosis
Classic findings: Gardner's syndrome
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors
Classic findings: Gaucher's disease
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency
Classic findings: Ghon focus
Primary TB
Classic findings: Gilbert's syndrome
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Classic findings: Glanzmann's thrombasthenia
Defect in platelet aggregation
Classic findings: Goodpasture's syndrome
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Classic findings: Gower's maneuver
Duchenne's (use of patient's arms to help legs pick self off the floor)
Classic findings: Guillain-Barre syndrome
Idiopathic polyneuritis
Classic findings: Hand-Schuller-Christian disease
Chronic progressive histiocytosis
Classic findings: HbF
Thalassemia major
Classic findings: HbS
Sickle cell anemia
Classic findings: hCG elevated
Choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo)
Classic findings: Heberden's nodes
Osteoarthritis (DIP swelling secondary to osteophytes)
Classic findings: Heinz bodies
G6PD deficiency
Classic findings: Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with hemorrhagic urticaria and URIs
Classic findings: Heterophil antibodies
Infectious mononucleosis (EBV)
Classic findings: High-output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Wet beriberi (thiamine, vitamin B1 deficiency)
Classic findings: HLA-B27
Reiter's syndrome, anklyosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis
Classic findings: HLA-DR3 or -DR4
Diabetes mellitus type 1 (caused by autoimmune destruction of B cells)
Classic findings: Homer Wright rosettes
Neuroblastoma
Classic findings: Honeycomb lung on x-ray
Interstitial fibrosis
Classic findings: Horner's syndrome
Ptosis, miosis, and anhidrosis
Classic findings: Howell-Jolly bodies
Splenectomy (or nonfunctional spleen)
Classic findings: Huntington's disease
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Classic findings: Hyperphagia + hypersexuality + hyperorality + hyperdocility
Kluver-Bucy syndrome (amygdala)
Classic findings: Hyperpigmentation of skin
Primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease)
Classic findings: Hypersegmented neutrophils
Macrocytic anemia
Classic findings: Hypertension + hypokalemia
Conn's syndrome
Classic findings: Hypochromic microcytosis
Iron deficiency anemia, lead poisoning
Classic findings: Increased a-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Anencephaly, spina bifida (neural tube defects)
Classic findings: Increased uric acid levels
Gout, Lesch-Nyhand syndrome, myeloproliferative disorders, loop and thiazide diuretics
Classic findings: Intussusception
Adenovirus (causes hyperplasia of Peyer's patches)
Classic findings: Janeway lesions
Endocarditis
Classic findings: Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
Syphilis--overaggressive treatment of an asymptomatic patient that causes symptoms due to rapid lysis
Classic findings: Job's syndrome
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Classic findings: Kaposi's sarcoma
AIDS in MSM (men who have sex with men)
Classic findings: Kartagener's syndrome
Dynein defect
Classic findings: Kayser-Fleischer rings
Wilson's disease
Classic findings: Keratin pearls
Squamous cell carcinoma
Classic findings: Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules
Diabetic nephropathy
Classic findings: Kluver-Bucy syndrome
Bilateral amygdala lesions
Classic findings: Koilocytes
HPV
Classic findings: Koplik spots
Measles
Classic findings: Krukenberg tumor
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Classic findings: Kussmaul hyperpnea
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Classic findings: Lens dislocation + aortic dissection + joint hyperflexibility
Marfan's syndrome (fibrillin deficit)
Classic findings: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
HGPRT deficiency
Classic findings: Lewy bodies
Parkinson's disease
Classic findings: Libman-Sacks disease
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Classic findings: Lines of Zhan
Arterial thrombus
Classic findings: Lisch nodules
Neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease)
Classic findings: Low serum ceruloplasmin
Wilson's disease
Classic findings: Lucid interval
Epidural hematoma
Classic findings: Lytic bone lesions on x-ray
Multiple myeloma
Classic findings: Mallory bodies
Alcoholic liver disease
Classic findings: Mallory-Weiss syndrome
Esophagogastric lacerations
Classic findings: Deep tenderness 2/3 from umbilicus to anterior superior iliac spine
Appendicitis (McBurney sign)
Classic findings: MLF snydrome (internuclear ophthalmoplegia)
Multiple sclerosis
Classic findings: Monoclonal antibody spike of IgM
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia
Classic findings: Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Wegener's and Goodpasture's (hemoptysis and glomerular disease)
Classic findings: Needle-shaped, negatively birefringent crystals
Gout
Classic findings: Nephritis + cataracts + hearing loss
Alport's syndrome
Classic findings: Neurofibrillary tangles
Alzheimer's disease
Classic findings: No lactation postpartum
Sheehan's syndrome (pituitary infarction)
Classic findings: Nutmeg liver
CHF
Classic findings: Occupational exposure to asbestos
Malignant mesothelioma
Classic findings: Osler's nodes
Endocarditis (raised red lesions on palms & soles)
Classic findings: Owl's eye
CMV
Classic findings: Painless jaundice
Pancreatic cancer (head)
Classic findings: Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Classic findings: Pancoast's tumor
Bronchogenic apical tumor assocaited with Horner's syndrome
Classic findings: Pannus
Rheumatoid arthritis
Classic findings: Parkinson's disease
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion
Classic findings: Periosteal elevation on x-ray
Pyogenic osteomyelitis
Classic findings: Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Benign polyposis
Classic findings: Peyronie's disease
Penile fibrosis
Classic findings: Philadelphia chromosome (bcr-abl)
CML (may sometimes be associated with AML)
Classic findings: Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Esophageal webs with iron deficiency anemia
Classic findings: Podagra
Gout (MP joint of hallux)
Classic findings: Podocyte fusion
Minimal change disease
Classic findings: Polyneuropathy, cardiac pathology, and edema
Dry beriberi (thiamine, vitamin B1 deficiency)
Classic findings: Polyneuropathy preceded by GI or respiratory infection
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Classic findings: Pompe's disease
Lysosomal glucosidase deficiency associated with cardiomegaly
Classic findings: Port-wine stain
Hemangioma
Classic findings: Pott's disease
Vertebral tuberculosis
Classic findings: Pseudopalisade tumor cell arrangement
Glioblastoma multiforme
Classic findings: Pseudorosettes
Ewing's sarcoma
Classic findings: Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
Horner's syndrome (Pancoast's tumor)
Classic findings: Rash on palms and soles
Secondary syphilis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Classic findings: Raynaud's syndrome
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
Classic findings: RBC casts in urine
Acute glomerulonephritis
Classic findings: Recurrent pulmonary Pseudomonas and S. aureus infections
Cystic fibrosis
Classic findings: Red urine in the morning
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Classic findings: Reid index (increased)
Chronic bronchitis
Classic findings: Reinke crystals
Leydig cell tumor
Classic findings: Reiter's syndrome
Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis
Classic findings: Renal cell carcinoma + cavernous hemangiomas + adenomas
von Hippel-Lindau disease
Classic findings: Renal epithelial casts in urine
Acute toxic/viral nephrosis
Classic findings: Rhomboid crystals, positively birefringent
Pseudogout
Classic findings: Rib notching
Coarctation of aorta
Classic findings: Roth's spots in retina
Endocarditis
Classic findings: Rotor's syndrome
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Classic findings: Rouleaux formation (RBCs)
Multiple myeloma (due to high plasma protein)
Classic findings: S3
Left-to-right shunt (VSD, PDA, ASD), mitral regurgitation, LV failure (CHF)<br><br>(hi volume sound) - threes a crowd<br>
Classic findings: S4
Aortic stenosis, hypertrophic subaortic stenosis<br><br>(stiff ventricle sound) - four score
Classic findings: Schiller-Duval bodies
Yolk sac tumor
Classic findings: Senile plaques
Alzheimer's disease
Classic findings: Sezary syndrome
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Classic findings: Shwartzman reaction (thrombosis and necrosis at delivery)
Neisseria meningitidis
Classic findings: Signet-ring cells
Gastric carcinoma
Classic findings: Simian crease
Down syndrome
Classic findings: Sipple's syndrome
MEN type IIa - Medullary carcinoma of thyroid, pheochromocytoma, parathyroid tumor
Classic findings: Sjogren's syndrome
Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis
Classic findings: Skip lesions
Crohn's
Classic findings: Slapped cheeks
Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease) - Parvovirus B19
Classic findings: Smith antigen
SLE
Classic findings: Soap bubble on x-ray
Giant cell tumor of bone = osteoclastoma
Classic findings: Spike and dome on EM
Membranous golmerulonephritis
Classic findings: Spitz nevus
Benign juvenile melanoma
Classic findings: Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails
Endocarditis
Classic findings: Starry-sky pattern
Burkitt's lymphoma
Classic findings: Streaky ovaries
Turner's syndrome
Classic findings: String sign on x-ray
Crohn's disease
Classic findings: Subepithelial humps on EM
Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
Classic findings: Suboccipital lymphadenopathy
Rubella
Classic findings: Sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Classic findings: Swollen gums, bruising, poor wound healing, anemia
Scurvy (ascorbic acid, vitamin C deficiency)--vitamin C is necessary for hydroxylation of proline and lysine in collagen synthesis
Classic findings: Systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)
Aortic valve stenosis
Classic findings: t(8;14)
Burkitt's lymphoma (c-myc activation)
Classic findings: t(9;22)
Philadelphia chromosome, CML (bcr-abl hybrid)
Classic findings: t(14;18)
Follicular lymphomas (bcl-2 activation)
Classic findings: Tendon xanthomas (clasically Achilles)
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Classic findings: Thumb sign on lateral x-ray
Epiglottitis (Haemophilus influenzae)
Classic findings: Thyroidization of kidney
Chronic bacterial pyelonephritis
Classic findings: Trousseau's sign
Visceral cancer, pancreatic adenocarcinoma (migratory thrombophlebitis), hypocalcemia (carpal spasm)
Classic findings: Virchow's node
Left supraclavicular node enlargement from metastatic carcinoma of the stomach
Classic findings: Virchow's triad
PE triad = blood stasis, endothelial damage, hypercoagulation
Classic findings: von Recklinghausen's disease
Neurofibromatosis with cafe-au-lait spots
Classic findings: Wallenberg's syndrome
PICA thrombosis
Classic findings: Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
Classic findings: Waxy casts
Chronic end-stage renal disease
Classic findings: WBC casts in urine
Acute pyelonephritis
Classic findings: WBCs in urine
Acute cystitis
Classic findings: Wermer's syndrome
MEN I - Pancreatic (Zollinger-Ellison, insulinoma, VIPoma), pheochromocytoma, parathyroid tumors.
Classic findings: Whipple's disease
Malabsorption syndrome caused by Tropheryma whippelii
Classic findings: Wilson's disease
Hepatolenticular degeneration
Classic findings: Xanthochromia (CSF)
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Classic findings: Xerostomia + arthritis + keratoconjunctivitis sicca
Sjogren's syndrome
Classic findings: Zenker's diverticulum
Upper GI diverticulum
Classic findings: Bamboo spine on x-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis
Classic findings: Blue bloater
Chronic bronchitis
Classic findings: Brown tumor of bone
Hemorrhage cuases brown color of osteolytic cysts: 1. Hyperparathyroidism 2. Osteitis fibrosa cystica (von Recklinhgausen's disease)
Classic findings: Burkitt's lymphoma
8:14 translocation; associated with EBV; starry sky appearance on histology
Classic findings: Chocolate cysts
Endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries)
Classic findings: Erb-Duchenne palsy
Superior trunk (C5-C6) brachial plexus injury (waiter's tip)
Classic findings: Fat, female, forty, and fertile
Acute cholecystitis
Classic findings: Hair-on-end (crew-cut) appearance on x-ray
B-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoiesis)
Classic findings: Lumpy-bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis
Classic findings: Orphan Annie nuclei
Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
Classic findings: Pink puffer
Emphysema (centroacinar - smoking, panacinar -&gt; a1-antitrypsin deficiency)
Classic findings: Positive anterior drawer sign
Anterior cruciate ligament injury
Classic findings: Smudge cell
CLL
Classic findings: Strawberry tongue
Scarlet fever
Classic findings: Tram-track appearance on LM
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Classic findings: von Recklinghausen's disease of the bone
Osteitis fibrosa cystica (''brown tumor'')
Classic findings: Wire loop apperance on LM
Lupus nephropathy
Classic findings: Worst headache of my life
Berry aneurysm--subarachnoid
Equation review: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1 ..... p + q = 1
Equation review: Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
pH = pKa + log [HCO3-] / 0.03 PCO2
Equation review: Volume of distribution
Vd = amount of drug in the body / plasma drug concentration
Equation review: Clearance
CL = rate of elimination of drug / plasma drug concentration
Equation review: Half-life
t(1/2) = (0.7 x Vd) / CL
Equation review: Loading dose
LD = Cp x (Vd / F)
Equation review: Maintenance dose
MD = Cp x (CL / F)
Equation review: Cardiac output
CO = rate of O2 consumption / (arterial O2 content - venous O2 content) = stroke volume x heart rate
Equation review: Stroke volume
SV = end diastolic volume - end systolic volume
Equation review: Ejection fraction
EF = (stroke volume / end diastolic volume) x 100
Equation review: Resistance
R = driving pressure / flow = [8n (viscosity) x length] / (pi)(r^4)
Equation review: Net filtration pressure
Pnet = [(Pc - Pi) - ((pi)c - (pi)i)[
Equation review: Glomerular filtration rate
GFR = U(insulin) x [V / P(insulin)] = CL(inulin) = Kf [(P(GC) - P(BS)) - (pi(GC) - pi(BS))]
Equation review: Mean arterial pressure
MAP = cardiac output x total peripheral resistance = (1/3) systolic + (2/3) diastolic
Equation review: Effective renal plasma flow
ERPF = U(PAH) x (V / P(PAH)) = CL(PAH)
Equation review: Renal blood flow
RBF = RPF / (1 - Hct)
Equation review: Filtration fraction
FF = (GFR / RPF)
Equation review: Free water clearance
CL(H2O) = V - CL(osm)
Equation review: Physiologic dead space
V(D) = V(D) x [Pa(CO2) - Pe(CO2)] / Pa(CO2)
Most common: Bacteremia/pneumonia (IVDA)
S. aureus
Most common: Bacteria associated with cancer
H. pylori
Most common: Bacteria found in GI tract
Bacteroides (2nd most common is E. coli)
Most common: Brain tumor (adults)
Mets &gt; astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) &gt; meningioma &gt; schwannoma
Most common: Brain tumor (kids)
Medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
Most common: Brain tumor--supratentorial (kids)
Craniopharyngioma
Most common: Breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in the U.S., 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer)
Most common: Breast mass in premonopausal woman
Fibrocystic change
Most common: Breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
Most common: Bug in debilitated, hospitalized pneumonia patient
Klebsiella
Most common: Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma
Most common: Cardiac tumor (adults)
Mets
Most common: Cardiomyopathy
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Most common: Chromosomal disorder
Down syndrome (associated with ALL, Alzheimer's dementia, and endocardial cushion defects)
Most common: Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)
Most common: Congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
Most common: Constrictive pericarditis
Tuberculosis
Most common: Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD &gt; RCA &gt; LCA
Most common: Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus
Most common: Cyanosis (late; more common)
VSD, ASD, PDA (close with indomethacin; open with misoprostol)
Most common: Epiglottitis
Haemophilus influenzae type B
Most common: Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma
Most common: Gene involved in cancer
p53 tumor suppressor gene
Most common: Group affected by cystic fibrosis
Caucasians (fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies, mucous plugs/lung infections)
Most common: Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma
Most common: Heart murmur
Mitral valve prolapse
Most common: Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral
Most common: Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis in IVDA
Tricuspid
Most common: Heart valve (rheumatic fever)
Mitral valve (aortic is 2nd)
Most common: Helminth infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis (Ascaris lumbricoides is 2nd most common)
Most common: Hereditary bleeding disorder
von Willebrand's
Most common: Kidney stones
Calcium = radiopaque (2nd most common is ammonium = radiopaque; formed by urease-positive organisms such as Proteus vulgaris or Staphylococcus)
Most common: Liver disease
Alcoholic liver disease
Most common: Location of brain tumors (adults)
Supratentorial
Most common: Location of brain tumors (kids)
Infratentorial
Most common: Male cancer
Prostatic carcinoma
Most common: Malignancy associated with noninfectious fever
Hodgkin's disease
Most common: Malignant skin tumor
Basal cell carcinoma (rarely metastasizes)
Most common: Mets to bone
Breast, lung, thyroid, testes, prostate, kidney
Most common: Mets to brain
Lung, breast, skin (melanoma), kidney (renal cell carcinoma), GI
Most common: Mets to liver
Colon, gastric, pancreatic, breast, and lung carcinomas
Most common: Neoplasm (kids)
ALL (2nd most common is cerebellar medulloblastoma)
Most common: Nephrotic syndrome
Membranous glomerulonephritis
Most common: Opportunistic infection in AIDS
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
Most common: Organ receiving mets
Adrenal glands (due to rich blood supply)
Most common: Organ sending mets
Lung &gt; breast, stomach
Most common: Ovarian tumor (benign)
Serous cystadenoma
Most common: Ovarian tumor (malignant)
Serous cystadenocarcinoma
Most common: Pancreatic tumor
Adenocarcinoma (head of pancreas)
Most common: Patient with ALL
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Most common: Patient with Hodgkin's
Young male (except nodular sclerosis type = female)
Most common: Preventable cancer
Lung cancer
Most common: Primary bone tumor (adults)
Multiple myeloma
Most common: Primary hyperparathyroidism
Adenomas (followed by hyperplasia, then carcinoma)
Most common: Primary liver tumor
Hepatoma
Most common: Renal tumor
Renal cell carcinoma--associated with von Hippel-Lindau and acquired polycystic kidney disease; paraneoplastic syndromes (erythropoietin, renin, PTH, ACTH)
Most common: Secondary hyperparathyroidism
Hypocalcemia of chronic renal failure
Most common: STD
Chlamydia
Most common: Site of diverticula
Sigmoid colon
Most common: Site of metastasis
Regional lymph nodes
Most common: Site of metastasis (2nd most common)
Liver
Most common: Sites of atherosclerosis
Abdominal aorta &gt; coronary &gt; popliteal &gt; carotid
Most common: Skin cancer
Basal cell carcinoma
Most common: Stomach cancer
Adenocarcinoma
Most common: Testicular tumor
Seminoma
Most common: Thyroid cancer
Papillary carcinoma
Most common: Tracheoesophageal fistula
Lower esophagus joins trachea/upper esophagus--blind pouch
Most common: Tumor in men
Prostate carcinoma
Most common: Tumor in women
Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent)
Most common: Tumor of infancy
Hemangioma
Most common: Tumor of the adrenal medulla (adults)
Pheochromocytoma (benign)
Most common: Tumor of the adrenal medulla (kids)
Neuroblastoma (malignant)
Most common: Type of Hodgkin's
Nodular sclerosis (vs. mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)
Most common: Type of non-Hodgkin's
Follicular, small cleaved
Most common: Vasculitis
Temporal arteritis (risk of ipsilateral blindness due to thrombosis of ophthalmic artery)
Most common: Viral encephalitis
HSV
Most common: Vitamin deficiency (U.S.)
Folic acid (pregnant women are at high risk; body stores only 3- to 4-month supply)
Most common: Cardiac primary tumor (adults)
Myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium; ball and valve)
Most common: Pituitary tumor
Prolactinoma (2nd--somatotropic acidophilic adenoma)
Most frequent causes: Addison's
Autoimmune (infection is the 2nd most common cause)
Most frequent causes: Aneurysm, dissecting
Hypertension
Most frequent causes: Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta
Atherosclerosis
Most frequent causes: Aortic aneurysm, ascending
Tertiary syphilis
Most frequent causes: Bacterial meningitis (adults)
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Most frequent causes: Bacterial meningitis (elderly)
S. pneumoniae
Most frequent causes: Bacterial meningitis (kids)
S. pneumoniae or Neisseria meningitidis
Most frequent causes: Bacterial meningitis (newborns)
Group B streptococcus
Most frequent causes: Cancer associated with AIDS
Kaposi's sarcoma
Most frequent causes: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Most frequent causes: Cushing's syndrome
Corticosteroid therapy (2nd most common cause is excess ACTH secretion by pituitary)
Most frequent causes: Death in CML
Blast crisis
Most frequent causes: Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Most frequent causes: Dementia
Alzheimer's (2nd most common is multi-infarct)
Most frequent causes: DIC
Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burn trauma
Most frequent causes: Ejection click
Aortic/pulmonic stenosis
Most frequent causes: Food poisoning
S. aureus
Most frequent causes: Glomerulonephritis (adults)
IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease)
Most frequent causes: Hematoma--epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (arterial bleeding is fast)
Most frequent causes: Hematoma--subdural
Rupture of bridging veins (trauma; venous bleeding is slow)
Most frequent causes: Hemochromatosis
Multiple blood transfusions (can results in CHF and inc'd risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)
Most frequent causes: Hepatic cirrhosis
EtOH
Most frequent causes: Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cirrhotic liver (often associated with hepatitis B and C)
Most frequent causes: Holosystolic murmur
VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation
Most frequent causes: Hypertension, secondary
Renal disease
Most frequent causes: Hypoparathyroidism
Thyroidectomy
Most frequent causes: Infection in blood transfusion
Hepatitis C
Most frequent causes: Infection in burn victims
Pseudomonas
Most frequent causes: Leukemia (adults)
AML
Most frequent causes: Mental retardation
Down syndrome (fragile X is the 2nd most common cause)
Most frequent causes: Mitral valve stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
Most frequent causes: Myocarditis
Coxsackie B
Most frequent causes: Nephrotic syndrome (adults)
Membranous glomerulonephritis
Most frequent causes: Nephrotic syndrome (kids)
Minimal change disease (associated with infections/vaccinations; treat with corticosteroids)
Most frequent causes: Opening snap
Mitral stenosis
Most frequent causes: Osteomyelitis
S. aureus
Most frequent causes: Osteomyelitis in patients with sickle cell disease
Salmonella
Most frequent causes: Osteomyelitis with IVDA
Pseudomonas
Most frequent causes: Pancreatitis (acute)
EtOH and gallstones
Most frequent causes: Pancreatitis (chronic)
EtOH (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)
Most frequent causes: PID
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (monoarticular arthritis)
Most frequent causes: Pneumonia, hospital-acquired
Klebsiella
Most frequent causes: Pneumonia in cystic fibrosis, burn infection
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Most frequent causes: Preventable blindness
Chlamydia
Most frequent causes: Primary amenorrhea
Turner's (XO)
Most frequent causes: Primary hyperaldosteronism
Adenoma of adrenal cortex
Most frequent causes: Primary hyperparathyroidism
Adenoma
Most frequent causes: Pulmonary hypertension
COPD
Definition: Cor Pulmonale
Right heart failure due to high pulmonary hypertension
Most frequent causes: Right-sided heart failure
Left-sided heart failure
Most frequent causes: Sheehan's syndrome
Postpartum pituitary infarction secondary to hemorrhage
Most frequent causes: SIADH
Small cell carcinoma of the lung
Most frequent causes: UTI
E. coli
Most frequent causes: UTI (young women)
E. coli and Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Most frequent causes: Cretinism
Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism
How to open/close a PDA
Open: Misoprostol<br />Close: Indomethacin
Most common: Patient with CLL
adult > 60
Most common: Patient with AML
adult > 60
Most common: Patient with CML
adult 35-60
Most common: Breast mass in postmenopausal woman
Cancer
Classic findings: Monoclonal antibody spike of IgG or IgA
Multiple myeloma or monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
Classic findings: Charcot's triad (jaundice, RUQ pain, fever)
cholangitis