Classic Lab/Diagnostic Findings (First Aid Rapid Review) Flashcards
Anti-centromere antibodies
Scleroderma
CREST
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris
Blistering
Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies
Goodpasture syndrome
Glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis
Antihistone antibodies
Drug-induced SLE
Hydralazine, INH, Phenytoin, Procainamide
Anti-IgG antibodies
Rheumatoid arthritis (Systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Female, cholestasis, portal hypertension
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)
Microscopic polyangiitis and Churg-Strauss syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA)
Granulomatosis w/ polyangiitis (Wegener; PR3-ANCA/c-ANCA)
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA)
SLE
Type III hypersensitivity
Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
Diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies
Celiac disease
Diarrhea, distension, weight loss
“Apple core” lesion on abdominal x-ray
Colorectal cancer
Usually left-sided
Azurophilic peroxidase (+) Granular inclusions in granulocyte and myeloblasts
Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic [M3] type)
Bacitracin response
Sensitive: Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A)
Resistant: Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B)
“Bamboo spine” on x-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis
Chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies
Due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen
Basophilic stippling of RBCs
Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
Bloody tap on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
“Boot-shaped” heart on x-ray
Tetrology of Fallot
RVH
Branching gram+ rods w/ sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging
Pancost tumor
Can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner syndrome
“Brown” tumor of bone
Hyperparathyroidism
or
Osteitis fibrosa cystica
(deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown color)
Cardiomegaly w/ apical atrophy
Chagas disease
Trypanosoma cruzi
Cellular cresents in Bowman capsule
Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
“Chocolate cyst” of ovary
Endometriosis
Frequently involves both ovaries
Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Homer-Wright rosettes
Neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
Cystic fibrosis (Autosomal recessive mutation in CFTR gene --> fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)
Decrease AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Down syndrome
or
Other chromosomal abnormality
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (Tertiary syphillis) Subacute combined degeneration (Dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson disease
Basal ganglia disorder: ridgidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia
Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum
Curschmann spirals
(Bronchial asthma)
(Can result in whorled mucous plugs)
Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies
Granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
Koilocytes
HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
“Owl eye” appearance of CMV
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei
“Orphan Annie” eyes nuclei
Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory body
Alcoholic liver disease
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body
Parkinson disease
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body
Toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar nerve cells
Negri bodies of rabies
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
Senile plaques
Alzheimer disease
Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (“owl’s eye”)
Reed-Sternberg cells
Hodgkin lymphoma
Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cell
Schiller-Duval bodies
Yolk sac tumor