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Classic Lab Findings Flashcards

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Anticentromere antibodies

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Sclerodomera/CREST

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Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies

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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)

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Anti-Glomerular basement membrane antibodies

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Goodpasture Syndrome (glmerulonephritis adn hemoptysis)

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Antihistone antibodies

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Drug-induced SLE (hydralizine, INH, phenytoin, procainamide)

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Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA)

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Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)

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Anti-IgG antibodies

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RA (sytemic inflammation, joint pannus, bouteonneir deformity)

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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)

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Microscopic polyangitis adn Churg-Strauss syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA); granulomatosis w/ polyangitis (Wegener; PR3-ANCA/c-ANCA)

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Antinuclear antibodies; ANA: anti-Smith or anti-dsDNA

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SLE; Type III hypersensitivity

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Antiplatelet antibodies

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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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Anti-topioisomerase antibodies

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Diffuse systemic sclerodema

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Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies

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Celiac’s disease; diarrhea, distension and weight loss

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“Apple Core” lesion on abdominal xray

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Colorectal cancer

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Azurophilic peroxidase + granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts

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Auer rods in AML; especially the promyelocytic M3 type

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Bacitracin response

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Sensitive; Streptococcus Pyogenes group A

resistant; Streptococcus agalactiae group B

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Bamboo spine on x ray

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Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)

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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs

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Howell-Jolly bodies~ splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen

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Basophilc stippling of RBCs

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lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia

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Bloody tap on LP

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subarchonoid hemorrhage

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“Boot-shaped” heart

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Tetrology of Fallot, RVH

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Branching gram + rods with sulfur granules

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Actinomyces israelli

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Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging

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Pancoast tumor; can compress sympathetic ganglion causing Horner syndrome)

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“Brown” tumor of bone

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Hyperparathydoidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage)

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Cadiomegaly with apical atrophy

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Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)

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Cellular crescents in Bowman capsule

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Rapidly progressive cresentic glomerulonephritis

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“Chocolate cyst” of ovary

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Endometriosis (often both ovaries)

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Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurfibrils

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Homer-Wright rossettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)

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Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs

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Cystic fibrosis–> autosomal recessive mutations in CFTR gene–> fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)

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Decrease AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum

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Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities

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Degeneration of dorsal column nerves

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Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphillis) subacute combined degernation (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected)

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Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

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Parkinsons disease; basal ganglia disorder)

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Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum

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Curshmann spirals (bronchial asthma; resluts in whorled mucus plugs)

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Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid

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Call0Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of ovary)

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Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

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Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies

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Owl eye of CMV

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Enlarged thyroid cells with ground glass nuclei

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‘orphan annie’ eyes nuclei in papillary carcinoma of thyrpoid

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eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell

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Mallory Body (alcoholic liver disease)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell

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Lewy body of Parkinson disease

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Eosinophilic globule in liver

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Councilman body–viral or toxic hepatitis, often yellow fever)

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Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebral nerve cells

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Negri bodies of rabies

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Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter

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Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)

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Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (owl eye)

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Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodkin lymphoma

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Glomerulus like structure surrounding vessels in germ cells

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Schiller-Duval bodies = yolk sac tumor

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“hair on end” crew cut appearance on xray

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B-thalessemia, sickel cell anemia (marrow expansion)

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hCG elevation

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Choriocarcinoma, hydatiform mole

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Heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodies from rheumatic fever

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