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Anticentromere antibodies

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Scleroderma (CREST)

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Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies

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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)

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Anti-GMB antibodies

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Goodpasture’s Syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)

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Antihistone Antibodies

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Drug induced SLE (hydrazine, procainaminde, phenytoin, INH)

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5
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Anti-IgG antibodies

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RF Rheumatoid Factor)

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Antimitochondrial antibodies

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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)

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Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCAs)

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C-ANCA (Wegner’s) P-ANCA (Churg Strauss, microscopic polyangitis)

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Antinuclear Antibodies (ANAs: anti-Smith, and anti-dsDNA)

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SLE (type II hypersensitivity)

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Antiplatelet Antibodies

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Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

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10
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Anti-topoisomerase Antibodies

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Diffuse system scleroderma

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

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Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, weight loss)

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12
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Apple Core lesion on Xray

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Colorectal cancer (left sided)

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Azurophilic peroxidase-positive granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts

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Auer rods (AML–especially the promyelocytic type)

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Bacitracin response

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Sensitive: Strep Pyogenes (group A), resistant Step Agalactiae (group B)

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Bamboo spine on xray

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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 (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)

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Basophilic stippling of RBCs

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Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia

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18
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Blood tap on TL

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subarachnoid hemorrhage

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19
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boot shaped heart on xray

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Tertralogy of Fallot, RVH

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20
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branching gram positive rods with sulfur granules

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Actinomyces israelii

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21
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bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging

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pancoast tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner’s syndrome)

22
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cardiomegaly with apical atrophy

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Chagas disease (t. cruzi)

23
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Brown tumor of bone

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Hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown color)

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cellular crescents in bowman’s capsule

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rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis

25
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chocolate cyst of ovary

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endometriosis (usually bilateral)

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circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils

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Homer Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma retinoblastoma)

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colonies of mucoid pseudomonas in lungs

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cystic fibrosis (autosomal recessive mutation in CFTR resulting in fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)

28
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decreased alpha-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum

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Down’s Syndrome or other chromosomal abnormality

29
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degeneration of dorsal column nerves

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tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal both affected)

30
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depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

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Parkinson’s Disease (basal ganglia disorder, rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)

31
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desquamated epithelium casts in sputum

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Curschmann’s spirals (bronchial asthma can result in whorled mucous plugs.)

32
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disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid

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Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary)

33
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dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

34
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enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies

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“Owl’s eye” appearance of CMV

35
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enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei

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“orphan annie eyes” nuclei (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)

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eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell

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Mallory bodies (alcoholic liver disease)

37
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eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in never cell

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Lewy Body (parkinson’s disease)

38
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eosinophilic globule in liver

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councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, yellow fever)

39
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eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells

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Negrei bodies of rabies

40
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extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of the brain

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senile plaques (Alzheimer’s disease)

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Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions

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Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)

42
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glomerulus like structures surrounding vessels in germ cells

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schiller-duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)

43
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“Crew-cut” appearance on xray

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Beta-Thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (marrow expansion)

44
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hCG elevated

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Choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole (occurs with or without embryo)

45
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heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)

46
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heterphile antibodies

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Infectious mono (EBV)

47
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hexagonal, double pointed, needle-like crystals in bronchial secretions

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bronchial asthma (charcot-leyden crystals; eosinophilic granules)

48
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high level of D-dimers

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DIC, PE, DVT

49
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hilar lymphadenopathy, peripheral granulomatous lesion in middle or lower lung lobes (can calcify)

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Ghon Complex (primary TB)

50
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“honeycomb lung” on xray or CT

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interstitial pulmonary fibrosis

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