FA Key Associations Flashcards
Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing Ulcer (increased intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretion)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Age Ranges of ALL/CLL/AML/CML
ALL: child
CLL: adult>60
AML: adult~65
CML: adult 45-85
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch
Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vaso vasorum destruction
Aortic aneurysm, thoracic
Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Aortic dissection
Hypertension
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)
Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies (eg. adenocarcinoma, MALToma)
H. pylori
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
S. pneumoniae
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B strep/E coli (newborns), S pneumonia/N meningitidis (kids/teens(
Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma
Krukenburg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)
Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)
Brain tumor in adults
Supratentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma
Brain tumor in children
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
Breast cancer
Invasive ductal carcinoma
Breast mass
Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmemopausal women)
Breast tumor (benign, young woman)
Fibroadenoma
Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
Cardiac manifestations of lupus
Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metastasis, myxoma (90% in left atrium, “ball and valve”)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari II malformation
Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk emboli)
Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinema (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
Constrictive pericarditis
TB (developing world); idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)
Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > Circumflex
Cretinism
Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism
Cushing syndrome
Iatrogenic- from corticosteroid therapy
Adrenocortical adenoma - secretes excess cortisol
ACTH-secreting pituitary tumor - Cushing Disease
Paraneoplastic - ACTH secretion by tumor(s)
Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetrology of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus
Death in CML
Blast crisis
Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Dementia
Alzheimers disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
Demyelinating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
DIC
Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery, acute pancreatitis, APL
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosis by barium swallow)
Ejection click
Aortic stenosis
Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); Adenocarcinoma (US)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus, B. cereus
Gastric cancer
Adenocarcinoma
Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
Helminthic infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma - epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)
Hematoma - subdural
Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)