Classic Labs/Findings Flashcards
Anticentromere Ab
Scleroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) Ab
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti-glomerular basement membrane Ab
Goodpasture’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis+hemopysis)
Antihistone Ab
drug induced SLE (hydralazine, INH, phenytoin, procainamide)
Anti-IgG Ab
Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflamm, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)
Antimitochondrial Ab (AMA)
1 biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)
antineutrophil cytoplasmic Ab (ANCAs)
vasculitis (cANCA: Wegener’s; pANCA: microscopic polyangiitis, Churg Strauss syndrome)
Antinuclear Ab (ANA; anti-Smith or anti-dsDNA)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
Antiplatelet Ab
ITP: immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Anti-topoisomerase Ab
diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial Ab
Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, wt loss)
Apple core lesions on ab x ray
colorectal cancer (usually on L)
Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts
Auer rods (AML, esp M3 type)
Bacitraicin response
Sensitive: Group A Strep (pyogenes)
Resistant: Group B Strep (agalactiae)
Bamboo spine on x ray
Ankylosing spondylitis (assoc with HLA-B27)
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBC
Howell-Jolly bodies (due to asplenia)
Basophilic stippling of RBC
Pb poisoning, or sideroblastic anemia
Bloody tap on lumbar puncture
subarachnoid hemorrhage
Boot shaped heart on xray
RVH (ex: Tetralogy of Fallot)
Branching G+ rods with sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor
pancoast tumor (can cause Horner’s)
Brown tumor of bone
hyperPTH or osteitis fibrosa cystica
hemosiderin laden Macrophages cause brown color
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Chagas disease (T. cruzi)
Cellular crescents in Bowman’s capsule
rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
Chocolate cysts of ovary
Endometriosis (bilateral)
Circular group of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Homer Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
Cystic Fibrosis
AR mutation to CFTR; get fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucus plugs
Decreased a-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
chromosomal abnormality (ex: Down syndrome)
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (3 syphilis)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson’s disease
basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia
Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum
Curschmann’s spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucus plugs)
Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-thecal cell tumor of ovaries)
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells wth nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusions
Owl’s eye (CMV)
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei
Orphan Annie eye nuclei (papillary CA of thyroid)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory bodies (alcoholic liver dz)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy bodies (Parkinson’s dz)
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells
Rabies virus (Lyssavirus)