FA - Classic Labs/Findings Flashcards
Antidesmoglein (epitheliall) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti-glomerular BM antibodies
Goodpasture (GN + Hemoptysis)
Antihistone antibodies
Drug induced lupus (hydralazine, INH, phenytoin, procainamide)
Anti-IgG antibodies
RA
Antimitochondrial antibodies
PBC
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)
c-ANCA (PR3-ANCA) –> Wegener
p-ANCA (MPO-ANCA) –> Microscopic poluangiitis + Churg-Strauss syndrome
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: Anti-Smith, anti-dsDNA)
SLE - HRS III.
Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
Diffuse scleroderma
Anti-transglutaminase
Anti-gliadin
Anti-endomysial
Celiac disease
Apple core lesion on abdominal X-ray
Colorectal cancer (usually left-sided)
Azurophilic peroxidase (+) granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts
Auer rods –> AML M3 –> promyelocytic.
Bacitracin response
Sensitive - Strep pyogenes (group A)
Resistant - Strep agalactiae (group B)
“Bambo spine” on x-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies - due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen.
Basophilic stippling of RBCs
- Lead poisoning
2. Sideroblastic anemia
Bloody tap on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
“Boot-shaped” heart on x-ray
- FALLOT
2. RVH
Branching gram(+) rods with sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging
Pancoast tumor - can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner syndrome.
“Brown” tumor of bone
Hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica –> deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown color.
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Chagas disease
Cellular crescents in Bowman capsule
Rapidly progressive crescentic GN
“Chocolate cyst” of ovary
Endometriosis - frequently involves both ovaries
Circulating grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Homer-Wright rosettes:
- Neuroblastoma
- Medulloblastoma
- Retinoblastoma
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
CF
DOWN AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormality.
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis –> 3o syphilis
Subacute combined degeneration –> dorsal columns + lateral corticospinal tracts affected.
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson
Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum
Curschmann spirals
Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies –> Granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary.
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement + hyperchromasia
Koilocytes
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
“Owl eye” appearance of CMV
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei
“Orphan Annie” eyes nuclei –> Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory body - Alcohol liver disease.
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body - Parkinson
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body –> toxic/viral hepatitis, often yellow fever.
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal + cerebellar nerve cells
Negri bodies of rabies
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
Senile plaques –> Alzheimer
Giant B cell with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (“owl’s eye”)
Reed-Sternberg cells (HL)
Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells
Schiller-Duval bodies –> Yolk sac tumor.
“Hair on end” (crew cut) appearance on x-ray
Beta-thalassemia
SCA –> Marrow expansion