FARR3 Flashcards
Anticentromere antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies
Goodpasture’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)
Antihistone antibodies
Drug induced SLE (hydrlazine, isoniazid, joint pannus, Boutonniere deformity)
Anti- IgG antibodies
Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)
Microscopic polyangitis and Churg-Strauss syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA); granlumatosis with polyagnitis (Wegener; PR3-ANCA/c-ANCA)
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura
Anti-topoisomerase antiboides
Diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies
Celiac disease (diarrhea, distension, weight loss)
Apple core” lesion on abdominal x-ray”
Colorectal caner (usually left sided)
Azurophilic peroxidase (+) granular inclusion in granulocytes and myeloblasts
Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic (M3) variant)
Bacitracin response
Sensitive: Streptococcus pyogenes (group A); resistant: Streptococcus agalactiae (group B)
Bamboo spine” on x-ray”
Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)
Basophillic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
Basophillic stippling of RBC’s
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 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 (Trypanasoma cruzi)
Cellular crescents in Bowman capsule
Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
Chocolate cyst” of ovary”
Endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries)
Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale nurofibrils
Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)
Colonies of mucoid Psudomonas in lungs
Cystic fibrosis (autosomal recessive mutation in CFTR gene -> fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)
decreased AFP inamniotic fluid/maternal serum
Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (3* syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected Vit B12, Vit E)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson disease (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)
Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum
Curschmann 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: predisposes to cervical cancer)
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 (alcoholic liver disease)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body (Parkinson disease)
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar nerve cells
Negri bodies of rabies
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)
Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (Owls eyes”)”
Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)
Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells
Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)