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Increased AFP in amniotic fluid / maternal serum

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  • Dating error
  • Anencephaly
  • Spina bifida or other open neural tube defects
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Anticentromere antibodies

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Scleroderma (CREST)

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Anti-desmoglein (anti-demosome) antibodies

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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)

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Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies

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Goodpasture syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)

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Antihistone antibodies

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Drug-induced SLE (eg, hydralazine, isoniazid, phenytoin, procainamide)

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Anti-IgG antibodies

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

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Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)

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Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal hypertension)

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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)

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  • Microscopic polyangiitis and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA)
  • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener; PR3-ANCA/c-ANCA)
  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA)
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Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs; anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA)

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SLE (type III hypersensitivity)

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Antiplatelet antibodies

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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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Anti-topoisomerase antibodies

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Diffuse systemic scleroderma

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Anti-transglutaminase / anti-gliadin / anti-endomysial antibodies

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Celiac disease (diarrhea, weight loss)

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“Apple core” lesion on barium enema x-ray

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Colorectal cancer (usually left sided)

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Atypical lymphocytes

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EBV

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Azurophilic peroxidase + granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts

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Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic M3 type)

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Bacitracin response

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Sensitive: S pyrogens (group A)
Resistant: S agalactiae (group B)

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Bamboo spine on xray

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Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)

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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs

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Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or non-functional spleen)

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Basophilic stippling of RBCs

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Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia

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Bloody or yellow tap on lumbar puncture

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Boot-Shaped heart on x-ray

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Tetralogy of Fallot (due to RVH)

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Branching gram + rods with sulfur granules

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Actinomyces israelii

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Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging

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Pancoast tumor (can compress cervical sympathetic chain and cause Horner syndrome)

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“Brown” tumor of bone

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Hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown colour)

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Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy

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Chagas disease (Trypanosoma Cruzi)

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Cellular crescents in Bowman capsule

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Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis

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“Chocolate cyst” of ovary

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Endometriosis

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Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils

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Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma)

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Colonies of mucoid pseudomonas in lungs

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Cystic fibrosis (autosomal recessive mutation in CFTR gene -> fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)

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Decreased AFP in amniotic fluid / maternal serum

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Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities

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Degeneration of dorsal column fibres

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Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)
Subacute combine degeneration (dorsal columns, lateral corticospinal, spinocerebellar tracts affected)
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“Delta wave” on EKG, short PR interval, suptraventricular tachycardia

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Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (Bundle of Kent bypasses AV node)

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Depigmentation of neutrons in substantial nigra

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Parkinson disease (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)

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Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum

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Curschmann spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucous plugs)

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Disarrayed granulose cells arranged around collections of eosinophilic fluid

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Call-Exner bodies (granulose cell tumor of the ovary)

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Dysplastic squamous cells with “raisinoid” nuclei and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

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Electrical alternans (alternating amplitude on EKG)

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Pericardial tamponade

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Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies

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“Owl eye” appearance of CMV

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Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei with central clearing

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“Orphan Annie” eyes nuclei (papillary thyroid carcinoma)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell

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Mallory body (alcoholic liver)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in neuron

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Lewy body (Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia)

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Eosinophilic globule in liver

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Councilman body (viral hepatitis, yellow fever) represents hepatocyte undergoing apoptosis

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Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar neurons

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Negri bodies of rabies

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44
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Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain

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Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)

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Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (owl’s eyes)

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Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)

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Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessels 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 disease (marrow expansion)

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hCG elevated

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Choriocarcinoma
Hydatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo, multiple pregnancy)
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Heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)

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Heterophile antibodies

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Infectious mononucleosis (EBV)

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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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High level D dimer

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DVT, PE, DIC

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

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Ghon complex (primary TB: mycobacterium bacilli)

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“Honeycomb lung” on xray or CT

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Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis

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Hypercoagulability (leading to migrating DVTs and vasculitis)

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Trousseau syndrome (adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lung)

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Hypersegmented neutrophils

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Megaloblastic anemia (B12 deficiency: neurologic symptoms; folate deficiency; no neurologic symptoms)

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Hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis

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Primary hyperaldosteronism (Conn syndrome)

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Hypochromic, microcytic anemia

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Iron deficiency anemia, lead poisoning, thalassemia (fetal hemoglobin sometimes present)

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Intranuclear eosinophilic droplet-like bodies

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Cowdry type A bodies (HSV or VZV)

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Iron-containing nodules in alveolar sputum

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Ferruginous bodies (asbestosis: increase chance of lung ca)

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Keratin pearls on a skin biopsy

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Large granules in phagocytes, immunodeficiency

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Chediak-Higashi disease (congenital failure of phagolysosome formation)

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“Lead pipe” appearance of colon on abdominal imaging

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Ulcerative colitis (loss of haustra)

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Linear appearance of IgG deposition on glomerular and alveolar basement membrane

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Goodpasture syndrome

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Low serum ceruloplasmin

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Wilson disease (hepatolenticular degeneration)

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“Lumpy bumpy” appearance of glomeruli on immunofloresence

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Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (due to deposition of IgG, IgM, C3)

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Lytic (“punched-out”) 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 change of the breast

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Monoclonal antibody spike

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  • Multiple myeloma (IgG or IgA)
  • Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS consequence of aging)
  • Waldenstrom (M protein = IgM) macroglobinrmia
  • Primary amyloidosis
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Mucin-filled cell with peripheral nucleus

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“Signet ring” (gastic cancer)

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Narrowing of bowel lumen on barium xray

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“String sign” (Crohn disease)

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Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotising glomerulonephritis

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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener; PR3 - ANCA / c-ANCA) and Goodpasture syndrome (anti-basement membrane antibodies)

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Needle-shaped, negative birefringent crystals

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Gout (monosodium urate 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: S epidermis
Resistant: S. saphrophyticus

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“Nutmeg” appearance of liver

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Chronic passive congestion of liver due to right heart failure or Budd-Chiari syndrome

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“Onion skin” periosteal reaction

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Ewing sarcoma (malignant small blue cell tumor)

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Optochin sensitivity

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Sensitive: S. pneumonia
Resistant: viridian’s streptococci (S mutans, S sanguis)

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Podocyte fashion or “effacement” on electron microscopy

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Minimal change disease (child with nephrotic syndrome)

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Protein aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of tau protein

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Neurofibrillary tangles (Alzheimers disease)
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Pick bodies (Pick disease)
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Psammoma bodies

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Meningiomas, papillary thyroid carcinoma, mesothelioma, papillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium and ovary

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Raised periosteum (creating a “codman triangle”

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Aggressive bone lesion (eg, osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, osteomyelitis)

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RBC casts in urine

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Glomerulonephritis

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Pseudopalisading tumor cells on brain biopsy

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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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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Recurrent infections, eczema, thrombocytopenia

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Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

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Renal epithelial casts in urine

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Intrinsic renal failure (eg, ischemia or toxic injury)

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Rhomboid crystals, + birefringent

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Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate crystals)

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Rib notching (inferior surface on xray)

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Coarctation of the aorta

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Ring-enhancing brain lesion on CT/MRI in AIDS

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Toxoplasma gondii, CNS lymphoma

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Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells with scattered pale, tangible body-laden macrophages (“starry sky” histology)

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Burkitt lymphoma (t[8:14] c-myc activation, associated with EBV; “starry sky” made up of malignant cells)

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Silver-staining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neurons

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Pick bodies (Pick disease: progressive dementia, 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 (generally benign)

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“Spikes” on basement membrane, “dome-like” sub epithelial deposits

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Membranous nephropathy (nephrotic syndrome)

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Stacks of RBCs

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Rouleaux formation (high ESR, multiple myeloma)

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“Steeple” sign on frontal CXR

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Croup (parainfluenza virus)

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Bacteria-covered vaginal epithelial cells

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“Clue cells” (Gardnerella vaginitis)

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Streptococcus bovis bacteremia

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Colon cancer

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“Tennis racket” shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in Langerhans cells

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Birbeck granules (Langerhans cell histiocytosis)

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Thousands of polyps on colonoscopy

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Familial adenomatous polyposis (autosomal dominant, mutation of APC gene)

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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 neck xray

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Epiglottitis (H Flu)

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Thyroid-like appearance of kidney

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Chronic pyelonephritis (usually due to recurrent infections)

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“Tram track” appearance of capillary loops of glomerular basement membranes on light microscopy

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

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Triglyceride accumulation in liver cell vacuoles

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Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome)

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Increased uric acid levels

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Gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, tumor lysis syndrome, loop and thiazide diurectics

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“Waxy” casts with very low urine flow

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Chronic end stage renal disease

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WBC casts in urine

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Acute pyelonephritis

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WBCs that look “smudged”

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CLL (almost always B cell)

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“Wire loop” glomerular capillary appearance on light microscopy

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Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (usually seen with lupus)

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Yellowish CSF

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Xanthochromia (eg due to subarachnoid hemorrhage)

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