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Head And Neck Flashcards

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Most important risk of sq cell ca

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Smoking and alcoholism

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95% of cancers of the head and neck

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Squamous cell cancer

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Favored location of sq cell ca

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Ventral surface of the tongue

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Cyst that often originates around crown of unerupted tooth

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Dentigerous cysts

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Impacted third molar of the teeth

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Dentigerous Cyst

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Most common type of odontogenic tumor
Arises from epithelium
Depositions of enamel and dentin

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Odontoma

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Syncytium like array of large epithelial cells admixed with lymphocytes

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NPCA

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Palisading basaloid cells with stellate reticulum

Odontogenic epithelium without ectomesenchymal differentiation

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Ameloblastoma

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Smooth excrescences on TRUE VIVAL CORDS

Smoking and singing

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Reactive nodules and polyps

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Epithelial hyperplasia of the TRUE vocal cords

Pearly gray wrinkled plaques on the mucosal surface ultimately ulcerating and fungating

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Laryngeal carcinoma

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CSOM Complications

Intracranial

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Meningitis
Abscess
Thrombosis of venous sinus
Hydrocephalus

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CSOM Complications

Extracranial

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Facial nerve paralysis
Labyrinthitis
Acute mastoiditis
Petrositis
Sensorineural hearing loss
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Remnants of second branchial arch

Upper lateral neck cyst

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Branchial cleft cyst

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Remnants of thyroid anlagen

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Thryoglossal duct cyst

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Clusters neuroendocrine cells associated with ANS commonly located in the ADRENAL MEDULLA

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Paraganglioma

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Carotid body tumor

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Paraganglioma

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Nests of round chief cells surrounded by delicate vascular septae

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Zellballen
Carotid body tumor
Paraganglioma

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Most common lesion of salivary glands
Lower lip
Trauma

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Mucocoele

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Cystlike cavity with mucinous material at lower lip

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Mucocoele

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Ductal obstruction produced by stones in SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS

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Sialolithiasis

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Most common parotid tumors

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Pleomorphic adenoma

Benign mixed tumors

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Second most common salivary gland neoplasm

Parotid gland

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Warthin tumor

Papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum

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Most common form of primary malignant tumor of the salivary glands

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Mucoepodermoid tumor

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Cribriform pattern enclosing secretions
Perineural invasion
Minor salivary glands particularly palate

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Adenoid cystic carcinoma

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Double layer of eosinophilic epithelial cells
Follicular germinal centers
Cystic spaces

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Warthin tumor

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Cords sheets or cystic config of sq mucous or intermediate cells

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Mucoepidermoid ca

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Slightly raised plaques with pebbly surface

Target like lesion with darker raised center and irregular flat periphery

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Dysplastic Nevus

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Lentiginous hyperplasia

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Dysplastic nevus

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Most rapidly increasing cancer worldwide

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Most important risk factor of melanoma

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Sun exposure

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Melanoma

ABC

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Asymmetry
Border irregularity
Color variation

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Horizontal spread of melanoma within epidermis and sup dermis

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Radial growth phase

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Malignant cells penetrate reticular dermis

Heralded by appearance of nodule

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Vertical Growth Phase

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Most common type of melanoma

Develops on Lower extremities and back

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Superficial Spreading Melanoma

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Occurs in sun exposed parts of the face

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Lentigo maligna melanoma

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No radial growth phase

Poor prognosis

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Nodular melanoma

36
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Palm sole beneath the nail
Blacks
Poor prognosis

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Acral lentiginous melanoma

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Coin like stuck on skin lesion

Dermatosis papulosa nigra

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Seborrheic keratoses

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Rapid increase in number of keratoses

Gastric adenoca

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Leser Trelat sign

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Hyperkeratosis
Small keratin filled cysts
Invaginations of keratin

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Horn cysts
Invagination cysts

Basaloid cells
Seborrheic keratoses

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Velvet like hyperpigmentation at the nape

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Acanthosis nigricans

41
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Undulation of dermal papillae
Hyperkeratosis and basal cell hyperpigmentation
No melanocytic hyperplasia

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Acanthosis nigricans

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Sandpaper like consistency with cutaneous horn

Sun damaged skin

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Actinic keratosis

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Cytologic atypia in basal epidermis
Blue gray elastic fibers - elastosis
Cells in stratum corneum retain their nuclei - parakeratosis

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Actinic Keratosis

44
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Second most common tumor arising on sun exposed sites in older people

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Sq cell carcinoma

45
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Cells with atypia in all levels of the epidermis

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Sq cell carcinoma

46
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Symmetric cup shaped tumor filled with keratin debris

Spontaneous regression

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Keratoacanthoma

47
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Most common invasive cancer in humans

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Basal cell ca

48
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Telangiectasias
Rodent ulcers
Palisading pattern

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Basal cell ca

49
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Red oozing papulovesicular lesions with raised scaling plaques

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Acute eczematous dermatitis

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Intraepidermal vesicles caused by shearing desmosomes

Spongiosis

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Acute eczematois dermatitis

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Interface dermatitis: inflammation in epidermal-dermal junction
Targetoid lesions

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Erythema multiforme

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Salmon colored plaques with silvery white scales
Trauma induced by Koebner phenomenon
Bleeding Auspitz sign

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Acanthosis with downward elongation of rete ridges
Dilated tortuous vessels within papillae
Neutrophils in spongiotic foci of sup epidermis
Neutrophils within parakeratotic stratum corneum

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Test tubes in a rack appearance
Spongiform pustules of Kagoj
Munro microabscesses

Psoriasis

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Mounds of parakeratosis containing neutrophils and serum at ostia of hair follicles

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Follicular lipping

Psoriasis

55
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Itchy violaceous papules with white lines

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Wickham striae

Lichen planus

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Interface dermatitis
Sawtoothing of DE junction
Anucleate necrotic basal bodies

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Civatte or colloid bodies

Lichen planus

57
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Easily ruptured bullae

+ Nikolsky

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Dissolution of intercellular adhesions
Suprabasal
Subcorneal

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Acantholysis
Pemphigus vulgaris
Pemphigus foliaceous

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Netlike immunofluorescence

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Tense bullae

- Nikolsky sign

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Bullous pemphigoid

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Subepidermal nonacantholytic blisters

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Bullous pemphigoid

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Linear immunofluorescence

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Bullous pemphigoid

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Subepidermal blister

Microabscesses and granular IgA deposits at the tips of dermal papillae

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Dermatitis Herpetiformis

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Celiac disease

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Dermatitis herpetiformis

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Chronic inflammation of pilosebaceous unit

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Acne vulgaris

66
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Keratin plug
Hypertrophy of sebaceous glands
Propionibacterium
Follicular inflammation

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Acne vulgaris

67
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Central umbilication

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Molluscum contagiosum

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Honey colored crusts

69
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Impetigo contagiosa

Impetigo bullosa

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GABHS

Staphylococcus aureus

70
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Accumulation of neutrophils beneath stratum corneum

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Subcorneal pustule

Impetigo

Pathology 2 (20 decks)

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