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Classic Labs/Findings Flashcards

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Anticentromere Ab

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Scleroderma (CREST)

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Antidesmoglein (epithelial) Ab

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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)

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Anti-glomerular basement membrane Ab

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Goodpasture’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis+hemopysis)

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Antihistone Ab

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drug induced SLE (hydralazine, INH, phenytoin, procainamide)

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Anti-IgG Ab

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Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflamm, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)

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Antimitochondrial Ab (AMA)

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1 biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)

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antineutrophil cytoplasmic Ab (ANCAs)

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vasculitis (cANCA: Wegener’s; pANCA: microscopic polyangiitis, Churg Strauss syndrome)

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Antinuclear Ab (ANA; anti-Smith or anti-dsDNA)

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SLE (type III hypersensitivity)

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Antiplatelet Ab

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ITP: immune thrombocytopenic purpura

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Anti-topoisomerase Ab

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diffuse systemic scleroderma

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Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial Ab

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Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, wt loss)

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Apple core lesions on ab x ray

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colorectal cancer (usually on L)

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Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts

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Auer rods (AML, esp M3 type)

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Bacitraicin response

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Sensitive: Group A Strep (pyogenes)

Resistant: Group B Strep (agalactiae)

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Bamboo spine on x ray

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Ankylosing spondylitis (assoc with HLA-B27)

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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBC

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Howell-Jolly bodies (due to asplenia)

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Basophilic stippling of RBC

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Pb poisoning, or sideroblastic anemia

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Bloody tap on lumbar puncture

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subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Boot shaped heart on xray

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RVH (ex: Tetralogy of Fallot)

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Branching G+ rods with sulfur granules

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Actinomyces israelii

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Bronchogenic apical lung tumor

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pancoast tumor (can cause Horner’s)

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Brown tumor of bone

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hyperPTH or osteitis fibrosa cystica

hemosiderin laden Macrophages cause brown color

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Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy

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Chagas disease (T. cruzi)

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Cellular crescents in Bowman’s capsule

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rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis

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Chocolate cysts of ovary

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Endometriosis (bilateral)

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Circular group 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

AR mutation to CFTR; get fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucus plugs

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Decreased a-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum

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chromosomal abnormality (ex: Down syndrome)

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Degeneration of dorsal column nerves

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Tabes dorsalis (3 syphilis)

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Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

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Parkinson’s disease

basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia

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Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum

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Curschmann’s spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucus plugs)

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Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid

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Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-thecal cell tumor of ovaries)

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Dysplastic squamous cervical cells wth nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

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Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusions

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Owl’s eye (CMV)

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Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei

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Orphan Annie eye nuclei (papillary CA of thyroid)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell

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Mallory bodies (alcoholic liver dz)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell

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Lewy bodies (Parkinson’s dz)

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Eosinophilic globule in liver

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

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Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells

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Rabies virus (Lyssavirus)

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Extracellular amyloid deposition in grey matter of brain

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Senile plaques (Alzheimer’s dz)

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Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with promient inclusions (owls eye)

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Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin’s lymphoma)

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Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells

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Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)

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hair on end (crew cut) appearance on x ray

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B-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (marrow expansion)

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elevated hCG

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Choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole

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heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)

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Heterophile anitbodies

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EBV-mononucleosis

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Hexagonal, double pointed, needle-like crystals in bronchial secretions

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Bronchial asthma

Charcot-Leyden crystals: eosinophilic granules

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Hi level of D-dimers

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DVT/PE; DIC

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Hilar LAD, peripheral granulomatous lesion in middle or lower lung lobes (can calcify)

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Ghon complex (1 TB)

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honeycomb lung on x ray

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interstitial fibrosis

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hypersegmented neutrophils

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Megaloblastic anemia (B12 or folate)

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hypochromic, microcytic anemia

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Fe deficient anemia, lead poison, thalassemia

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Hi a-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum

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Dating error, neural tube defects

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Hi uric acid levels

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gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, tumor lysis syndrome, loop+thiazide diuretics

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Intranuclear eosinophilic droplet-like bodies

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type A Cowdry bodies (HSV or CMV)

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Fe-containing nodules in alveolar septum

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Ferruuginous bodies (asbestosis: hi chance for mesothelioma)

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Large lysosomal vesicles in phagocytes, immunodeficiency

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Cediak-Higaski disease (congenital failure of phagosome-lysosome fusion)

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Lead pipe colon on x ray

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Ulcerative Colitis (loss of haustra)

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Linear deposits on glomeruli on immunofluorescence

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Goodpasture’s

lines the GBM evenly, not clumped!

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Low serum ceruloplasmin

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Wilson’s dz (hepatolenticular degeneration)

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Lumpy bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence

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PostStreptococcal glomerulonephritis (type III HS; IgG and C3b deposits)

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Lytic (hole punched) bone lesions on x ray

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Multiple myeloma

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Mammary gland (blue-domed) cyst

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Fibrocystic changes of the breast

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monoclonal Ab spike

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multiple myeloma (M spike; IgG or A)
MGUS (normal aging)
Waldenstrom’s macroglobinemia (IgM)
Primary amyloidosis

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Monoclonal globulin protein in blood/urine

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Bence-Jones protein (multiple myeloma; kappa or lambda light chains in urine)

Waldenstrom’s macroglobinemia (IgM)

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Mucin-filled cell with peripheral nucleus

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Signet ring (gastric CA); bilateral mets to ovaries (Krukenberg tumor)

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Narrowing of bowel lumen on barium radiograph

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String sign (Crohn’s disease)

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Needle shaped, negative birefringent crystals

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gout (MSU crystals)

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Nodular hyaline deposits in glomeruli

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Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules (diabetic nephropathy)

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Novobiocin response

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Sensitive: Staph epidermidis

Resistant: Staph saprophyticus

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Nutmeg liver

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chronic passive congestion of liver (R CHF)

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Onion skin periosteal reaction

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Ewing’s sarcoma

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optochin response

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Sensitive: Strep pneumo

Resistant: Viridans Strep

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Periosteum raised from bone, creates triangular area

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Codman’s angle on xray (osteosarcoma usually)

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Podocyte fusion on EM

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Minimal change disease (nephrotic; kids)

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Polished, ivory like appearance of bone at cartilage erosion

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Eburnation (OA resulting in bony sclerosis)

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Prteoin aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of protein tau

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Neurofibrilary tangles (Alzheimer’s dz)

Pick’s bodies (Pick’s disease)

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Pseudopalisading tumor cells on brain bx

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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RBC cast in urine

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acute glomerulonephritis

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Rectangular, crystal like, cytoplasmic inclusions in Leydig cells

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Reinke crystals (Leydig cell tumor)

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Renal epithelial casts in urine

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Acute toxic/viral nephrosis

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Rhomboid crystals, + birefringence

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Pseudogout (Ca pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals)

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Rib notching

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Coarctation of aorta

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Ring-enhancing brain lesions in AIDS

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Sheets of medium sized lymphoid cells (starry sky appearance)

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Burkitt lymphoma (t[8;14] c-myc activation, assoc with EBV; dark sky is malignant cells)

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Silver staining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neurons

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Pick bodies (Pick’s dz: progressive demetia, changes in personality)

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Soap bubble in femur or tibia on x ray

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giant cell tumor of bone (usu benign)

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Spikes on GBM, dome like subepithelial deposits

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Membranous glomerulonephritis (may progress to nehprotic syndrome)

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Stacks of RBCs

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Rouleaux formation (multiple myeloma, hi ESR)

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Stippled vaginal epithelial cells

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Clue cells (Gardnerella vaginalis)

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Tennis racket shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in Langerhans cells

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Birbeck granules (histiocytosis X: eosinophilic granuloma)

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Thrombi made of white/red layers

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Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus. layers of platelets/RBCs)

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Thumb sign on lateral x ray

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Epiglottitis (H. influenza)

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Thyroid like appearance of kidney

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chronic bacterial pyelonephritis

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Tram track appearance on light microscopy

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

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TG accumulation in liver cell vacuoles

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Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome)

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smudged WBCs

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CLL (B cell in elderly)

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Wire loop glomerular appearance on light microscopy

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Lupus nephropathy

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Yellow CSF

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Xanthochromia (previous subarachnoid hemorrhage)

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