Classic Labs/Findings Flashcards
Anticentromere antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti-blomerular basement membrane antibodies
Goodpasture’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis and lung hemorrhage)
Antihistone antibodies
Drug-induced SLE
Anti-IgG antibodies
Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal hypertension)
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies
Vasculitis (Wegener’s, microscopic polyangiitis, glomerulonephritis)
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) (bleeding diathesis)
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
Diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-transflutaminase/antigliadin antibodies
Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, weight loss)
Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts
Auer rods (acute myelogenous leukemia, especially the promyelocytic type) (peroxidase positive)
Bamboo spine on x-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
Basophilic 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 with sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor
Pancoast’s tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner’s syndrome)
brown tumor of bone
Hemorrhage (hemosiderin) causes brown color of osteolytic cysts, due to
- hyperparathyroidism
- osteitis fibrosa cystica (von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone)
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Chagas’ disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
Cellular crescents in Bowman’s 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 (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, Ewing’s Sarcoma)
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
Cystic fibrosis (CFTR mutation in caucasians resulting in fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)
Degeneeration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson’s disease (basal ganglia disorder; rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)
Desquamated epihthelium casts in sputum
Curschmann’s spirals (bronchial asthma, can result in whorled mucous plugs)
Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary)
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
Koilocytes (HPV 16 and 18; predisposes to cervical cancer)
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
Owl’s eye appearance of CMV
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei
OOrphan Annie eye nuclei (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory bodies (alcoholic liver disease)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body (Parkinson’s disease)
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body (viral hepatitis, often yyellow fever)
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells
Rabies virus (Lyssavirus) (these are negri bodies)