FARR3 Flashcards

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Anticentromere antibodies

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Scleroderma (CREST)

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Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies

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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)

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Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies

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Goodpasture’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)

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Antihistone antibodies

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Drug induced SLE (hydrlazine, isoniazid, joint pannus, Boutonniere deformity)

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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 HTN)

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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)

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Microscopic polyangitis and Churg-Strauss syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA); granlumatosis with polyagnitis (Wegener; PR3-ANCA/c-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 thrombocytopenia purpura

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Anti-topoisomerase antiboides

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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, distension, weight loss)

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Apple core” lesion on abdominal x-ray”

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Colorectal caner (usually left sided)

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Azurophilic peroxidase (+) granular inclusion in granulocytes and myeloblasts

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Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic (M3) variant)

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Bacitracin response

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Sensitive: Streptococcus pyogenes (group A); resistant: Streptococcus agalactiae (group B)

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Bamboo spine” on x-ray”

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Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)

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Basophillic nuclear remnants in RBCs

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Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)

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Basophillic stippling of RBC’s

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Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia

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Bloody tap on LP

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Boot shaped” heart on x-ray”

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Tetralogy of Fallot, RVH

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Branching gram-positive 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 sympathetic ganglion 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 color)

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Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy

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Chagas disease (Trypanasoma 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 (frequently involves both ovaries)

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Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale nurofibrils

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Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)

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Colonies of mucoid Psudomonas 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 inamniotic fluid/maternal serum

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Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormalities

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Degeneration of dorsal column nerves

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Tabes dorsalis (3* syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected Vit B12, Vit E)

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Depigmentation of neurons in substantia 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 granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid

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Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary)

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Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

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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

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Orphan Annie” eyes nuclei (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)”

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell

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Mallory body (alcoholic liver disease)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell

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Lewy body (Parkinson disease)

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Eosinophilic globule in liver

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Councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)

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Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar nerve cells

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Negri bodies of rabies

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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 (Owls eyes”)”

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Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)

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Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells

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Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)

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Hair on end” (crew cut) appearrance on x-ray”

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beta-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (marrow expansion)

44
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hCG elevated

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Choriocarcinoma, hyatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo, and multiple pregnancy)

45
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Heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodes (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 of D-dimers

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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 (1* TB: Mycobacterium bacilli)

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Honeycomb lung” on x-ray 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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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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Increased AFP in amniotic fluid/ maternal serum

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Dating error, anencephaly, spina bifida (neural tube defects)

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Increased uric acid levels

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

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Intranuclear eosinophilic droplet like bodies

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Cowdry type A bodies (HSC or CMV)

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Iron-containing nodules in alveolar septum

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Ferruginous bodies (asbestosis: increases chance of mesothelioma)

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Keratin pearls on a skin biopsy

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Squamous cell carcinoma

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Large lysosomal vesicles 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 barium enema x-ray”

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Ulcerative colitis (loss of haustra)

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Linear appearance of IgG deposition on glomerular basement membrane

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Goodpasture’s syndrome

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Low serum ceruloplasmin

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Wilson’s disease (hepatolenticular degeneration)

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Lumpy Bumpy” appearance of glomeuli on immunofluorescence”

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Postsreptococcal glomerulonephritis (immune complex deposition of IgG and C3b)

65
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Lytic (hole punched”) 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 (usually IgG or IgA), Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS consequence of aging), Waldenstrom (M-protein = IgM) macroglobulinema, Primary amyloidosis

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Mucin filled cell with peripheral nucleus

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Signet ring” (gastric carcinoma)”

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Narrowing of bowel lumen on barium x-ray

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String sign” (Crohn disease)”

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Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis

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

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Needle-shaped, negatively birefringent crystals

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Gout (monosodium urate crystals)

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Nodular hyaline deposits in glomeruli

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Kimmelsteil-Wilson nodules (diabetic nephropathy)

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Novobiocin response

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Sensitive: Staphylococcus epidermidis; resistant: Staphylococcus saprophyticus

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Nutmeg” appearance of liver”

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Chronic passive congestion of liver due to right heart failure

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Onion skin” periosteal reaction”

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Ewing sarcoma (malignant round-cell tumor)

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Optochin response

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Sensitive: Streptococcus pneumoniae; resistant: viridans Streptococci

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Periosteum raised from bone, creating triangular area

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Codman triangle on x-ray (osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, pyogenic osteomyelitis)

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Podocyte fusion or effacement” on electron microscopy”

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Minimal change disease (child with nephrotic syndrome)

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Polished, ivory like” appearance of bone at cartilage erosion”

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Eburnation (osteoarthritis resulting in bony sclerosis)

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Protein aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of tau protein

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Neurofibrillary tangles (Alzheimer disease) and Pick bodies (Pick disease)

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Psamomma bodies

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

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Pseudopalisading tumor cells on brain biopsy

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GBM- Glioblastoma multiforme

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RBC casts in urine

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Acute glomerulonephritis

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Rectangular, crystal-like, cytoplasmic inclusion in Leydig cells

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Reinkey crytals (Leydig cell tumor)

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Renal epithelial casts in urine

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Acute toxic/viral renal injury

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Rhomboid crystals, positively birefringent

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Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals)

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Rib notching

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Coarctation of the aorta

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Ring enhancing brain lesions in AIDS

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Toxoplasma gondii, CNS lymphoma

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Sheets of medium sized lymphoid cells with scattered pale, tingible body laden macrophages (starry-sky histo)

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Burkitt lymphoma (t 8:14) c-myc activation, associated with EBC; black 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/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” subepi deposits”

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Membranous glomerulonephritis (may progress to nephrotic syndrome)

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Stacks of RBCs

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Rouleaux formation (high ESR, multiple myeloma)

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Stiplled vaginal epithelial cells

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Clue cells” (Gardnerella vaginalis)”

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

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Birbeck granules (Langerhans cell hitiocytosis or histiocytosis X: eosinophillic granuloma)

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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 x-ray”

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Epiglottitis (Haemophilus influenza)

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Thyroid-like appearance of kidney

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Chronic bacterial pyelonephritis

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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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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

103
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WBCs that look smudged””

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CLL (usually B cell)

104
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Wire loop” glomerular capillary appearance on light microscopy”

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Lupus nephropathy

105
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Yellowish CSF

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Xanthochromia (eg from subarachnoid hemorrhage)