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Haematological Flashcards

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> 20% lymphoblasts in child

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ALL

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Auer rods

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AML

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Hypocellular marrow with increased fat spaces

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Aplastic anaemia

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Warm and cold antibodies

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Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

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Positive Coomb’s test + reticulocytosis + spherocytosis + unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia

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Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

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Hair-on-end appearance on x-ray + skull bossing

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Thalassaemia

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Decrease in MCV disproportionate to Hb

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Thalassaemia

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Lymphoma associated with EBV

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Burkitt’s lymphoma (and Hodgkin’s lymphoma)

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Lymphoma common in children in extranodal sites (e.g. jaw, ovary, retroperitoneum)

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Burkitt’s lymphoma

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10
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t(8:14)

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Burkitt’s lymphoma

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Reticulocytosis after infection/illness/trimethoprim

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G6PD deficiency

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12
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Heinz bodies

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G6PD deficiency

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13
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Pigmented gallstones + spherocytosis

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Hereditary spherocytosis

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14
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Positive osmotic fragility test

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Hereditary spherocytosis

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15
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Hypersegmented neutrophils

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Megaloblastic anaemia

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Pancytopenia + elevated ESR + plasma cells on bone marrow biopsy

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Multiple myeloma

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17
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Plethora + exertional dyspnoea

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Polycythaemia

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18
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Tear drop cells + blasts

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Primary myelofibrosis

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19
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Bone pain + haematuria in Africans after infection

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Sickle cell anaemia (acute crisis)

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African with avascular necrosis + secondary osteoporosis

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Sickle cell anaemia

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21
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Anaemia after flucloxacillin therapy for osteomyelitis

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Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

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22
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CD20

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B cell lymphoma

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23
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Fever + night sweats + weight loss + lymphadenopathy + Pemberton’s sign

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Lymphoma

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24
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Rouleaux formation

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Multiple myeloma

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25
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Paraprotein

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Multiple myeloma

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26
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Bence Jones protein

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Multiple myeloma

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27
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Pepperpot skull on x-ray

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Multiple myeloma

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Toxic vacuolation and granulation of neutrophils

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Sepsis, severe inflammation, etc.

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Döhle bodies

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Sepsis, severe inflammation, etc.

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Howell-Jolly bodies

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Hypo/asplenia

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Abnormal bleeding time + elevated D-dimer after trauma/sepsis

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Disseminated intravascular coagulation

32
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Bleeding and bruising after infection

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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

33
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Bleeding disorder primarily affecting males

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Haemophilia

34
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Monoclonal B cell proliferation

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CLL

35
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Polyclonal B cell proliferation in periphery of lymph nodes

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Follicular lymphoma

36
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Painless lymphadenopathy with pain after alcohol

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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Burr cells

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Uraemia or pyruvate kinase deficiency

38
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CD15 + CD30

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

39
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CD38 + CD138

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Multiple myeloma

40
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CD5 + CD8

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CLL

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FLT4 mutation

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AML

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Smear cells

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CLL

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Red cell osmotic fragility

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Thalassaemia or hereditary spherocytosis

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CD59 deficiency

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Paroxysmal noctural haemoglobinuria

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Decay-accelerating factor deficiency

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Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria

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Anaemia + bone deformities + splenomegaly

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Thalassaemia

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Schilling test

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B12 deficiency

48
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Bleeding + shock in leukaemia

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AML

49
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CNS involvement in leukaemia

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ALL

50
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Fever + weight loss + pruritus + lymphadenopathy

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

51
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Pel-Ebstein fever (few days of fever alternating with 2-4 weeks of normal/low temperature)

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

52
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ADAMTS-13

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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

53
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Shiga toxin + anaemia

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Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

54
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Bloody diarrhoea + abdominal pain + haemolytic anaemia in child

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Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

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Haemolytic anaemia + elevated PT/INR + elevated D-dimer + low fibrinogen

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Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

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Schistocytes

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Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia

57
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Ringed sideroblasts + cytopenia

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Myelodysplastic syndrome

58
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Ristocetin cofactor activity

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von Willebrand disease

59
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Haemolytic anaemia associated with CLL, non-Hodkin’s lymphoma and SLE

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Warm autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

60
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Haemolytic anaemia associated with HIV, Mycoplasma and mono

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Cold autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

61
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Low factor VIII:C levels + increased bleeding time

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von Willebrand’s disease

62
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Increased bleeding time + increased PT/INR + increased APTT

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Disseminated intravascular coagulation

63
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Atypical B cells with spiky projections

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Hairy cell leukaemia

64
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Pancytopenia + ESR >100 + monoclonal gammopathy but normal Ca, no renal impairment and no symptoms of bony lesions

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Waldenstöm’s macroglobulinaemia

65
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Punched-out bone lesions

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Mutliple myeloma

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