Classic Labs/Findings Flashcards
Scleroderma (CREST)
anticentromere Ab
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
antidesmoglein (epithelial) Ab
Goodpasture syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)
anti-glomerular basement membrane Ab
linear appliance of IgG deposition on basement membrane
necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis (also Wegeners)
Drug-induced SLE
antihistone Ab Hydralazine INH phenytoin procainamide
RA
anti-IgG Ab
primary biliary cirrhosis
antimitochondrial Ab (AMAs)
female
cholestasis
portal hypertension
Microscopic polyangiitis
p-ANCA
Churg-Strauss syndrome
p-ANCA
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
c-ANCA necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis (also Goodpast)
SLE
anti-Smith (spliceosomal snRNPs Ab)
anti-dsDNA
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
antiplatelet Ab
diffuse systemic scleroderma
anti-topoisomerase Ab
Mixed CT Disease
anti-U1 RNP
Celiac Dz
anti-xsglutaminase Ab
anti-gliadin Ab
anti-endomysial Ab
Colorectal cancer
usually left sided
apple core lesion on abdominal x-ray
AML (M3)
Auer rods
azurophilic peroxidase + granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts
S. pyogenes bacitracin
sensitive
S. aglactiae bacitracin
resistant
Ankylosing spondylitis
HLA-B27
bamboo spine on x-ray
Splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen
Howell-Jolly bodies
basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Lead poisoning
basophilic stippling
sideroblastic anemia
basophilic stippling
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
bloody tap on LP
Xanthochromia = yellowish CSF
Tetralogy of Fallot, RVH
boot-shaped heart on x-ray
Actinomyces israelii
branching gram + rods with sulfur granules
Pancoast tumor
bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging
possible Horner syndrome is compression of Sympathetic ganglion occurs
Hyperparathyroidism
brown tumor of bone
osteitis fibrosa cystica
brown tumor of bone
Chagas Dz
cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
cellular crescents in Bowman capsule
endometriosis
chocolate cyst of ovary
Neuroblastoma
Medulloblastoma
Retinoblastoma
Homer-Wright Rosettes = circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
CF
colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
Down syndrome
def AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Tabes dorsalis
subacute combined degeneration
degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Parkinson disease
depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Lewy body = eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Bronchial asthma
curschmann spirals = desquamated epith casts in sputum
Charcot-Leyden crystals = hexagonal double-pointed needle-like crystals in secretions
Granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary
Call-Exner bodies = disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
HPV
Kiolocytes = dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
CMV
Owl-eye cells = enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
Cowdry type A bodies = intracellular eosinophilic drop-like bodies
Papillary Ca of the thyroid
Orphan Annie eyes nuclei = enlarged thyroid cells with ground glass nuclei
Alcoholic liver Disease
mallory bodies = eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell