Extra Patho Flashcards
Pink globular cytoplasmic inclusions
Russell bodies
MM
Nuclear remnants are phagocytosed by interspersed macrophages with abundant clear cytoplasm
Starry sky pattern
Burkitt’s lymphoma
Blue globular nuclear inclusions
Dutcher bodies
MM
Needle like azurophilic granules found in myeloblasts
AUER RODS!!
AML
highest in APML
Patches of dilated ER that appear as sky blue cytoplasmic puddles
Dohle bodies
Severe infection
Scattered macrophages with abundant wrinkled green blue cytoplasm
Sea blue histiocytes
CML
Thrombocytopenia
Less than 150,000
Chloroma
Focus of leukemia outside BM
Large cells with multiple nuclei or a single nucleus with multiple nuclear lobes
Reed sternberg
Hodgkins
Seen in adult t-cell lymphoma - appears as multilobulated nuclei
Cloverleaf or flower cells
Adult t-cell lymphoma
HTLV-1
RBCs in PBS stick in linear arrays - because of what protein?
M protein
Rouleux formation/ caterpillar
MM
Erythroblasts with iron laden mitochondria visible as perinuclear granules
Ringed sideroblasts
Sideroblastic anemia, INH, lead poisoning, copper, mm, b6 deficiency
Neutrophils with only two nuclear lobes
Pseudo Pelger Huet cells
MDS
Neutrophils with more than 5 lobes
Megaloblastic anemia
Pink round to oval cytoplasmic inclusions
Negri bodies
Pawn ball megakaryocytes
MDS
Megakaryocytes with single nuclear lobe of multiple separate nuclei
Pawn ball megakaryocytes
MDS
Premature release of nucleated erythroid and early granulocyte progenitors
Leukoeythroblastosis
Primary Myelofibrosis
Hallmark of primary Myelofibrosis
Development of obliterative marrow fibrosis
Small yellow to brown or rust colored foci in the spleen
Gandy gamma nodules
Splenic congestion
Macrophages in connective tissue
Sinus histiocytes
Omaya reservoir
Intrathecal
For sanctuary sites - CNS, testes
Number (%) of myeloblasts in AML
Equal to or more than 20%
MC physical finding in CML
Splenomegaly
Blast crisis
20% and above
Stain for hairy cell leukemia
Tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP)
MC variant of Hodgkins
Lacunar variant RS cells
Nodular sclerosis (not scary!)
Popcorn cells
Lymphocyte predominant HL
Good prognosis
Hodgkins with highest count of Reed sternberg cells
Lymphocyte depleted
Poor prognosis
MC type of NHL
Diffuse b cell
Burkitt - chromosome?
Chromosome 8
C-myc
NHL - does not have centroblasts and proliferation centers
Mantle cell lymphoma
Mantle cell lymphoma
t 11,14
Cyclin d1
Poor prognosis
MG, pure red cell aplasia
Thymoma
MM - spike? Ig?
M protein spike
Ig G
Femtoliters
Average volume
MCV
80-100
Mass of hemoglobin per red cell
MCH
Pictograms
Hypo or hyper chromic
Hg in a given volume of PRBC
MCHC
g/dl
Parvovirus b19 - infection of red cells
Aplastic crisis
Membrane bound precipitates on denatured globin chains
Heinz bodies
G6PD def
Small dark nuclear remnants present in RBCs of asplenic patients
Howell Jowell :)
Asplenia
Dehydrated RBCs
Target cells
Codocytes/ Mexican hat cells
B-thalassemia, sickle cell
Helmet cells
Schistocytes
RBC trauma
DIC, HUS
Echinocytes
Burr cells
RBCs
With spikes
Valve replacement
Giant metamyelocytes
Megaloblastic anemia
Absorption of iron - where?
Proximal duodenum
Absorption of Vit b12
Terminal ileum
Platelet level in Bernard Soulier
Decreased
Triad of hemolytic anemia
Pallor
Jaundice
Splenomegaly
MCC of death of PNH
Thrombosis
PNH - deficiency
Decay accelerating factor
Chloramphenicol, Benzene
Aplastic anemia
Most feared complication of ITP
Intracranial bleeding
HUS triad
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia
Thrombocytopenia
Renal failure
Von willebrand disease - platelet count
Normal
VWD - treatment?
Desmopressin
Hemophilia most common site of hemarthrosis
Ankles
MC site of hydronephrosis
Left ureter
Mc site of hydrocele
Right
Pruritic, red, crusted, sharply demarcated, map like area usually on the labia majora
Extra mammary Paget’s disease
Screening PSA
>= 50 if low risk >= 40 if high risk
Screening for cervical CA
21 to or within 3 years of sexual activity
MC presentation of endometriosis
Infertility
Dermoid cyst - mature or immature teratoma?
Mature
MC germ cell neoplasm
Mature teratoma/ dermoid cyst
Malignant non-germ cell neoplasm associated with pseudomyxoma peritonei
Mucinous cystadeoCA
Complete mole
69 XXY
Empty egg
Partial mole
46 XX
46 XY
2 sperm, 1 egg
Presents with malignant cells extending from within ductal system, via lactiferous sinuses, into skin without crossing the BM
Paget’s disease of nipple
Always an incidental finding on biopsy
Abnormal cells with oval or round nuclei and small nucleoli
Lobar carcinoma in situ
Lack e-cadherin
Signet ring cells arranged in Indian file pattern
ILCA
Fleshy mass with syncitium-like sheets of large cells with vesicular, pleomorphic nuclei and prominent nucleoli
Medullary CA, breast
Soft, rubbery breast mass
Pale gray-blue gelatin
Mucinous CA, breast
MCC of SIADH
Small cell lung CA
Second most common pituitary adenoma
Somatotroph adenoma
Thyroid CA with giant cells, spindle cells
Anaplastic
With cytokeratin
Antibodies in Hashimoto
Anti-TPO
Anti-thyroglobulin
Dystrophically calcified cancer cells
Psammoma bodies
Avascular necrosis of ossification centers in children
Legg Calve Perthes disease
- creeping substitution
CKD - calcium and PTH levels?
Low calcium
High PTH
Erlenmeyer flask
Osteopetrosis
Hat does not fit
Paget’s disease of bone
Jigsaw puzzle
Paget’s disease of bone
Brown tumors
Osteitis fibrosis cystica
Soft bones
Rickets
Osteomalacia
Chalk stick type fractures
Paget’s disease of bone
Railroad track cancellous bone
Osteitis fibrosis cystica
Zellballen
Pheochromocytoma
MEN II
Medullary thyroid CA
Pheochromocytoma
Parathyroid hyperplasia
MEN III
Medullary thyroid CA
Pheochromocytoma
Mucocutaneous/ oral ganglioneuromatosis
(Marfanoid habitus)
Staging for melanoma
Breslow
Tx for Molluscum Contagiosum
Imiquimod
Marble bone disease
Osteopetrosis
Osteitis deformans
Paget’s disease of bone
Associated with Mafucci syndrome
Chondroma
Eburnation
Osteoarthritis
Joint mice
OA
Sausage shaped DIP joints
Psoriatic arthritis
Seronegative spondylopathies
PAIR Psoriasis Ankylosing spindylitis IBD Reiter's
Osteoclastoma
Giant cell tumor
RANK/RANKL signaling
Chinese figures on X-ray
Fibrous dysplasia
MC presentation of McCune Albright
Precocious puberty
Progressive muscular atrophy of leg below the knee, thin or absent myelin sheath
Charcot Marie Tooth
Schwann cell hyperplasia and hypertrophic neuropathy
Charcot Marie tooth
Hereditary Motor Sensory neuropathy
Floppy baby, panfascicular atrophy
Spinal muscle atrophy
Werning Hoffman
Spinal muscle atrophy
Weakness in mitrochondrial myopathies
Proximal muscle weakness
GABA
Nucleus acumbens
Dopamine
Ventral tegmentum
Substantia nigra pars compacta
Mononuclear cell perivascular cuffs and neurophagia of the anterior horn motor neurons
Polio
Gelatinous material within subarachnoid space and small cysts
Soap bubbles
Cryptococcal meningitis
Separated in time and space
MS
Flame shaped bundles of neurofilaments
Neurofilbrillary tangles
With tau protein
Elongated, glassy eosinophilic bodies with para crystalline arrays of beaded actin filaments
Hirano bodies
Alpha synuclein
Lewy bodies
Superoxide dismutase
ALS
Pseudo palisading pattern of tumor cells
GBM
Brain CA mets in order
Lots of bad stuff kill glia
Lung Breast Skin Kidney GIT
Heliotrope rash
Dermatomyositis
Gottron lesions
Dermatomyositis
Drop mets in cauda equina
Medulloblastoma
Enlarged popliteal fossa
Dandy walker
Hypoplastic cerebellum
Subfalcine herniation
Aka cingulate
ACA compression
Kernohan’s notch
Transtentorial herniation
Hemiparesis IPSILATERAL to side of herniation
Duret hemorrhages
Transtentorial herniation
Tonsillar herniation
Through Foramen magnum
MS - autoantibodies against?
Myelin basic protein
Albers Schonberg disease
Osteopetrosis
- decreased osteoclast function
Esophageal web, micro hypo anemia, atrophic glossitis
Plummer Vinson syndrome
Hemoglobin H
Alpha thalassemia - deletion of 3 alpha globins
Warm agglutinin - seen in what diseases?
CLL, SLE, hemolytic anemia, drugs (methyldopa)
Warm weather is great! = IgG
Acute anemia triggered by cold
Cold agglutinin
Cold agglutinin seen in?
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Infectious mononucleosis
Renaud’s
IgM
C3b
Follicular lymphoma
t (14:18)
MC form of indolent NHL from germinal center B cells
Follicular lymphoma
Auto antibody - SLE
ANA
Anti-dsDNA
Auto antibody - drug induced lupus
Anti- histone
Auto antibody -mixed connective tissue disease
Anti-Ribonuclear protein
Auto antibody - crest syndrome
Anti-centromere
Auto antibody - diffuse scleroderma
Anti-scl 70
Auto antibody - Sjogren syndrome
Anti-SS-A
Auto antibody - primary biliary cirrhosis
Anti-mitochondrial
Proto-oncogene - CML
Abl
Proto-oncogenes - Burkitt lymphoma
c-myc
Proto-oncogenes - colon CA
ras
Proto-oncogenes - follicular lymphoma
bcl-2
Charcot joint
Syphillis
DM
Painful, immobile joint
Charcot Bouchard microaneurysm
Minute aneurysm secondary to hypertension in basal gangliA
Dark red scaly patches over knuckles, elbows and knees seen in dermatomyositis
Gottron’s papules
PKU dx - levels of phenylalanine
Guthrie test
Test for PNH
Ham test
Lisch nodule
NF-1 (VR)
P-ANCA?
C-ANCA?
P-ANCA : MPO
C-ANCA: PR3
Corkscrew aorta
Takayasu
Dark red scaly patches over knuckles, elbows and knees seen in dermatomyositis
Gottron’s papules
PKU dx - levels of phenylalanine
Guthrie test
Test for PNH
Ham test
Lisch nodule
NF-1 (VR)
P-ANCA?
C-ANCA?
P-ANCA : MPO
C-ANCA: PR3
Corkscrew aorta
Takayasu