Buzzwords

Question 1

‘Whirlpool sign’ on USS

Answer 1

Ovarian torsion

Question 2

Pepper pot skull/lytic lesions

Answer 2

Myeloma

Question 3

Congo red staining

Answer 3

Amyloid deposition of biopsied tissue in myeloma and AI amyloidosis

Question 4

Reed-Sernberg cells

Answer 4

Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Question 5

Philadelphia chromosome (9;22 translocation)

Answer 5

CML

Question 6

Atypical lymphocytes

Answer 6

EBV (mononucleosis)

Question 7

Auer rods

Answer 7

AML

Question 8

Bence-Jones proteins

Answer 8

Multiple myeloma

Question 9

‘Itchy after a hot bath’

Answer 9

Polycythaemia vera

Question 10

Translocation (8;14)

Answer 10

Burkitt’s lymphoma

Question 11

Alcohol makes it worse

Answer 11

Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Question 12

Haemarthrosis

Answer 12

Haemophilia

Question 13

Reduced levels of factor IX with Christmas Disease

Answer 13

Haemophilia B

Question 14

Young boy with reduced levels of factor VIII and increased APTT

Answer 14

Haemophilia A

Question 15

Schillings test

Answer 15

B12 deficiency

Question 16

Smudge cells

Answer 16

CLL

Question 17

JAK-2 mutation

Answer 17

PRV or essential thrombocytopaenia

Question 18

NBT test

Answer 18

CGD

Question 19

Positive Schumm’s test

Answer 19

Intravascular haemolytic anaemia

Question 20

Hair-on-end skull x-ray

Answer 20

Major beta-thalassaemia

Question 21

Bite cells, blister cells and Heinz bodies

Answer 21

G6PD deficiency

Question 22

Russell bodies

Answer 22

Chronic inflammation

Question 23

Schistocytes

Answer 23

Intravascular haemolysis

Question 24

Gastric parietal cell antibody

Answer 24

Pernicious anaemia

Question 25

Howell-Jolly bodies

Answer 25

Reduced spleen function