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Actinic Keratosis

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Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing ulcer (increase ICP stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretions)

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns

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Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)

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Age ranges for patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML

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ALL:child
CLL: adult > 60yo
AML: adult ~60yo
CML: adult 45 - 85yo

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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Skip lesions of Crohn disease

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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal

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Atherosclerosis

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Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch

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Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction

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Aortic aneurysm, thoracic

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Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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Aortic dissection

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HTN

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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies

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Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)

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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)

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Bacteria associated with gastritis, PUD, gastric malignancies (adeno, MALToma)

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H pylori

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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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S pneumo

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Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)

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GBS/E coli (newborn)

S pneumo/N meningitidis (kids)

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Bilteral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma

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Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet rings cells)

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Bleeding disorder with Gp1b deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)

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Breast cancer

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invasive ductal carcinoma

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Breast mass

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fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

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Breast tumor (benign, young woman)

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fibroadenoma

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Cardiac tumor, (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma, seen in tuberous sclerosis

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Cardiac manifestations of SLE

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Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)

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Cardiac tumor, (adults)

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Metastasis, myxoma in LA “ball and valve”

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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari II malformation

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Chronic arrhythmia

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A fib, associated with high risk of emboli

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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

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CAH hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

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Constrictive pericarditis

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TB (worldwide), viral illness (developed world

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Coronary artery involvement in thrombosis

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LAD > RCA > circumflex

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29
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Cretinism

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Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism

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Cushing syndrome

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  • Iatrogenic (from tx)
  • Adrenocortical adenoma
  • ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease)
  • Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
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Cyanosis (early; less common)

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TOF, Transposition of great vessels, Truncus arteriosus

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Death in CML

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Blast crisis

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33
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Death in SLE

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Lupus nephropathy

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Ejection click

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Aortic stenosis

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Esophageal cancer

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Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide), Adenocarcinoma (US)

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Helminth infection (US)

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Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides

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Hemochromatosis

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Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in heart failure, “bronze diabetes,” and increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)

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Hepatocellular carcinoma

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Cirrhotic liver (associated with Hep B, Hep C and alcoholism)

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Holosystolic murmur

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VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation

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HTN, secondary

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renal artery stenosis
Chronic kidney disease
Polycystic kidney disease
Diabetic nephropathy
Hyperaldosteronism
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Hypopituitarism

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Pituitary adenoma

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Infection 2/2 blood transfusion

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Infections in CGD

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S Aureus, E coli, Aspergillus (catalase +)

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Intellectual disability

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consider Down and Fragile X

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Kidney stones

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  • Calcium = radiopaque
  • Struvite = radiopaque and 2/2 infxn by urease + Proteus, Klebsiella, S saprophyticus
  • Uric acid = radiolucent
  • Cystine = radiolucent
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Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected left to right becomes right to left)

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Eisenmenger syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA; results in pulmonary HTN/polycythemia)

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Malignancy associated with non-infectious fever

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Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Malignancy in kids

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ALL, medulloblastoma (cerebellum)

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Metastases to bone

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Prostate, breast > lung > thyroid

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Metastases to brain

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Lung > breast > GU > melanoma > GI

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Metastases to liver

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Colon&raquo_space; stomach, pancreas

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Mitral valve stenosis

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Rheumatic heart disease

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Myocarditis

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Consider coxsackie B

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Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

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Focal Segmental glomerulosclerosis

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Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

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Minimal change disease

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Neuron migration failure

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Kallmann syndrome (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia)

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Nosocomial pneumonia

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S Aureus, Pseudomonas, other enteric gram - rods

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Obstruction of male urinary tract

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Opening snap

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Mitral stenosis

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Osteomyelitis in general

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Osteomyelitis in sick cell patient

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Salmonella

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Osteomyelitis in IVDA

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Pseudomonas, Candida, S Aureus

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Ovarian tumor (benign)

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Serous cystadenoma

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Ovarian tumor (malignant)

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Serous cystadenocarcinoma

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Pancreatitis (acute)

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Gallstones, alcohol

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Pancreatitis (chronic)

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Alcohol (adults), CF (kids)

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Primary Amenorrhea

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Consider Turner syndrome

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Primary bone tumors (adults)

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Multiple myeloma

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Primary hyperaldosteronism

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Adenoma of adrenal cortex

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Primary hyperparathyroidism

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Adenoma, hyperplasia, carcinoma

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Primary liver cancer

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson disease)

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Recurrent inflammation, thrombosis of small to medium vessels in extremities

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Buerger disease (strongly associated with tobacco)
"segmental thrombosing vasculitis"
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Refractory peptic ulcers and high gastrin levels

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Z-E syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas), associated with MEN1

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Renal tumor

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Renal cell carcinoma: associated with von-Hippel-Lindau and cigarette smoking; paraneoplastic syndrome (EPO, renin, PTHrP, ACTH)

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S3 heart sound

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increase ventricular filling pressure (mitral regurgitation, HF), common in dilated ventricles

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S4 heart sound

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Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)

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Secondary hyperparathyroidism

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Hypocalcemia of chronic renal disease

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Site of diverticula

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Sigmoid colon

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Sites of atherosclerosis

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Abdominal Aorta
Coronary artery
Popliteal artery
Carotid artery

80
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Temporal arteritis

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Risk of ipsilateral blindness due to occlusion of ophthalmic artery
Polymyalgia rheumatica

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Testicular tumor

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Seminoma (malignant, radiosensitive), increase placental ALP

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Thyroid cancer

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Papillary carcinoma (childhood irradiation)

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Tumor of infancy

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Strawberry hemangioma (grows rapidly and regresses spontaneously by childhood)

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Tumor of adrenal medulla (adults)

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Pheochromocytoma (usually benign)
5 P’s
increase catecholamines and metanephrines in urine and plasma (VMA)

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Tumor of adrenal medulla (kids)

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Neuroblastoma (malignant)
increase HVA & VMA
Homer-Wright rosettes
CROSSES MIDLINE!!
Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome
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Type of Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Nodular sclerosing (vs. mixed cellular, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)

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Type of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

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UTI

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E coli
S saprophyticus (young women)
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Vertebral compression fracture

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Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal woman; type II: elderly man or woman)

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