Classic Labs/Findings Flashcards
Anticentromere Antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Antibodies
Goodpasture syndrome (Glomerulonephritis and Hemoptysis)
Antihistone Antibodies
Drug-Induced SLE (Hydralazine, INH, Phenytoin, Procainamide)
Anti-IgG Antibodies
RA (Systemic Infllamation, Joint Pannus, Boutonniere Deformity)
Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCAs)
Microscopic Polyangitis and Churg-Strauss Syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA); Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegner; PR3-ANCA/c-ANCA)
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)
antinuclear antibodies (ANAs; anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
antiplatelet antibodies
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies
Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, wt loss)
anti-topoisomerase antibodies
diffuse systemic scleroderma
apple core lesion on abdominal x-ray
colorectal cancer (usually left side)
azurophilic peroxidase + granula inclusion in granulocytes and myeloblasts
Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic [M3] type)
bacitracin response
sensitive: streptococcus pyogenes (group a); resistant: streptococcus aglactiae (group b)
bamboo spine on x-ray
ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)
basophilic nuclear remant in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
Basophillic stippling of RBCs
lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
bloody tap on LP
subarachnoid hemorrhage
boot shaped heart on x-ray
tetralogy of fallot, RVH
branching gram positive rods withsulfur granules
actinomyces israelii
bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging
pancoast tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner syndrome)
Brown tumor of bone
HPT or osteitis fibrosa cystica (deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown color)
cardiomegaly with apical atropy
chagas diseas (trypanosoma cruzi)
cellular crescents in bowman capsule
rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
chocolate cyst of ovary
endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries)
circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
homer-wright rosettes (neuroblasoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
cystic fibrois (AR mutation in CFTR gene -> fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)
Decrease AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormality
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (3 syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia Nigra
Parkinson dieseas (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, restin tremor, brady kinesia)
Desquamated epithelium cast in sputum
Curschmann spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucous plugs)
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasisa
Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)}
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
owl eyes apperance of CMV
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground glass nuclei
Orpahn ANNie eyes nuclei (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory body (alcoholic liver diesease)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body (Parkinson disease)
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar nerve cells
Negri bodies of rabies
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray mater of brain
Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)
Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions owel eyes
REed sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)