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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing’s ulcer - raised ICP stimulated vagal gastric secretion

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As/ Actinic (solar) keratosis

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Precursor to SCC

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns MC

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Curling’s ulcer - greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa

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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon Dx

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Skip lesions - Crohn’s disease

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As/ Aneurysm, dissecting

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As/w HTN

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As/ Aortic aneurysms, abdominal and descending aorta

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As/w atherosclerosis

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As/ Aortic arch aneurysm

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Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction

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As/ Ascending Aortic aneurysm

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Marfan’s syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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As/ atrophy of mamillary bodies

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Wernicke’s encephalopathy - thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia, confusion

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As/ autosplenectomy (fibrosis + shrinkage)

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sickle cell anaemia (haemoglobin S)

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As/ Bacteria associated with gastritis, PUD, and stomach cancer

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H pylori

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MC Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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Streptococcus pneumoniae

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MC Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)

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GBS, Strep pneumo, neisseria meningitidis

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AS/w Benign melanocytic nevus

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Spitz nevus (MC in first 2 decades)

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As/ Bleeding disorder with Gp1b deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)

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MC Brain tumour (adults)

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Supratentorial: metastasis>astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme)>meningioma>schwannoma

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Brain tumour MC kids

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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (Cb) or

Supratentorial: craniopharygioma (cerebrum)

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MC Breast cancer

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Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (1 in 9 women –> breast cancer)

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Breast mass MC

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Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

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MC breast tumour - benign

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fibroadenoma

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MC primary cardiac tumour (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma - often seen in tuberous sclerosis

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MC cardiac tumour (adults)

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Metastases, primary myoxoma (4:1 Left to Right atrium) ball and valve

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As/ Cb tonsillar herniation

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Chiairi malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus or syringomyelia)

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MC chronic arrhythmia

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AF (high risk of emboli)

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As/ chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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predisposition to gastric carcinoma and perniscious anaemia

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As/ clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

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MC compression fracture

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Osteoporosis (Type 1: postmenopausal woman; Type 2: elderly man/woman)

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As/ congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

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MC congenital cardiac anomaly

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VSD

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As/ congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia (black liver)

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Dubin Johnson syndrome - inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile

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MCC Constrictive pericarditis

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Developing world - Tuberculosis

Developed world - SLE

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MC coronary artery involved in thrombosis

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LAD>RCA>LCA

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MCC Cretinism

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Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism

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As/ Cushing’s syndrome

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Iatrogenic cushings - corticosteroid Rx
Adrenocortical adenoma - secretes excess cortisol
ACTH secreting pituitary adenoma
Paraneoplastic cushings - due to ACTH secretion by tumours

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Early cyanosis MCC

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Tetralogy of fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus

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Cyanosis late (more common) MCC

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VSD, ASD, PDA

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MC Death in CML

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Blast crisis

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MC death in SLE

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Lupus nephropathy

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As/ dementia

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Alzheimer’s disease, multiple infarcts

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Dx Demyelinaing disease in young women

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MS

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DIC as/

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Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery

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MC dietary deficit

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Iron

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Dx Diverticulum in pharynx

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Zenker’s diverticulum (Dx with barium swallow)

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MC ejection click

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Aortic/pulmonic stenosis

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MC type of oesophageal cancer

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Squamous (world wide)

Adeno (US)

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MC food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)

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S.aureus, B.cereus

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MC glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger’s disease (IgA nephropathy)

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MC gynecologic malignancy

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Endometrial carcinoma (MC in US), cervical carcinoma (MC worldwide)

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MC congenital heart murmur

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MVP

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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis MC

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Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)

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MC Helminth infection (US)

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Enterobius vermicularis, ascaris lumbricoides

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As/ epidural haematoma

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rupture of MMA, trauma; lentiform shaped

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subdural hematoma MCC

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rupture of bridging veins - crescent shaped

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Hemachromatosis

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ultiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in CHF, bronze diabetes, and Incr risk of hepatocellular carcinoma

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As/ hepatocellular carcinoma

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cirrhotic liver - as/w HBV, HCV, alcoholism

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MC hereditary bleeding disorder

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MC Heredtary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert’s syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia)

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As/ HLA-B27

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Ank Spond, reiter’s syndrome, UC, psoriasis

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As/w HLADR3 or DR4

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T1DM, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE

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As/ holosystolic murmur

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VSD, tricuspid regurg, mitral regurg

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Definition: Virchow’s triad

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Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis

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MC Secondary HTN

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Renal disease

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MC hypoparathyroidism

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Accidental excision during thyroidectomy

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MC infection secondary to blood transfusion

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Hepatitis C

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Infections in chronic granulomatous disease

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Staph aureus, E.coli, aspergillus (catalase positive)

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Kidney stone types

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Calcium- radioopaque
Struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) - urease positive organisms such as proteus vulgaris or staphylococcus)
Uric acid - radiolucent

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Late cyanotic shunt

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uncorrected L-R shunt becomes R-L
Eisenmenger’s syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA)
Results in pulmonary HTN, polycythaemia

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MC liver disease

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Alcoholic cirrhosis

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Lysosomal storage disease

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Gaucher’s disease - bruising, anaemia, easily fatigueable, low platelets, hepatosplenomegaly.
Genetic deficiency of glucocerebrosidase

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male cancer

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Prostatic carcinoma

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Malignancy associated with noninfectoius fever MC

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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Malignancy Kids (MC)

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ALL, medulloblastoma (CB)

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MC Mental retardation

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Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome

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Metastases to bone

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Prostate, breast > lung > thyroid, testes

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MC metastases to brain

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Lung > breast > genitourinary > osteosarcoma > melanoma > GI

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MC metastases to liver

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Colon&raquo_space; stomach, pancreas

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As/ mitochondrial inheritance

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disease occurs in both males and females, inherited through females only

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As/ mitral valve stenosis

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Rheumatic heart disease

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Mixed UMN/LMN motor neuron disease As/

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Myocarditis As/

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Coxsackie B

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Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

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Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

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Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

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minimal change disease

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Neuron migration failure As/

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Kallman syndrome (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia

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As/ nosocomial pneumonia

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klebsiella, E.coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Obstruction of male urinary tract

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Opening snap

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Mitral stenosis

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Opportunistic infection in AIDS

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pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly carinii) pneumonia

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Osteomyelitis

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Osteomyellitis in sickle cell disease

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salmonella

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Osteomyelitis with IV drug use

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Pseudomonas, S.aureus

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Ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma or breast cancer

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Krukenburg (mucin secreting signet ring cells)

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Ovarian tumour (benign, bilateral) As

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Serous cystadenoma

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Ovarian tumour (malignant) As/

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serous cystadenocarcinoma

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Pancreatitis acute As/

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Gallstones, alcohol

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Pancreatitis chronic As/

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Alcohol (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)

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MC cardiac manifestation of lupus

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Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)

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Patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML

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ALL: child
CLL: adult >60
AML: adult ~65
CML: adult 30-60

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pelvic inflammatory disease MC

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chalmydia trachomatis, neisseria gonorrhoea

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Philadelphia chromosome

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t(9:22) bcr-abl

CML - may sometimes be associated with ALL/AML

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Pituitary tumour

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prolactnoma, somatotrophic “acidophilic” adenoma

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Primary amenorrhoea as

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Turner syndrome (45XO)

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Primary bone tumour (adults) MC

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Multiple myeloma

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As/ primary hyperaldosteronism

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adenoma of adrenal cortex

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Primary hyperparathyroidism

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adenomas, hyperplasia, carcinoma

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Primary liver cancer

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, haemachromatosis, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency)

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Pulmonary HTN as/

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Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small-medium vessels in extremeties

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Buerger’s disease (strongly associated with tobacco)

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Renal tumour As/

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Renal cell carcinoma: as/w von Hippel-Lindau and cigarette smoking
Paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTH, ACTH)
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Right heart failure due to pulmonary cause

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cor pumonale

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S3

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protodiastolic gallop

incr ventricular filling (L-R shunt, MR, LV failure)

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S4

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presystolic gallop

stiff/hypertrophied ventricle (AS, restrictive cardiomyopathy)

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Secondary hyperparathyroidism (as/)

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Hypocalcemia of chronic kidney diseaes

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STD

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chlamydia (coinfected with gonorrhea)

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SIADH as/

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small cell carcinoma of the lung

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Site of diverticula

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sigmoid colon

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Sites of atherosclerosis

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Abdo aorta> coronary artery > popliteal > carotid

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Stomach cancer MC

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Adenocarcinoma

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Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels

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Z-E syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)

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t(14:18)

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Follicular lymphoma

bcl-2 activation

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t(8;14)

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Burkitt’s lymphoma

c-myc activation

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t(9;22)

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Philidelphia chromosome

CML bcr-abl fusion

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Temporal arteritis

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Risk of ipsilateral blindness d/t thrombosis of opthalmic artery; polymyalgia rheumatica

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Testicular tumour MC

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Thyroid cancer MC

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Papillary carcinoma

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MC tumour in women

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Leiomyoma (estrongen dependent, not precancerous)

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Tumour of infancy MC

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hemangioma (usually regresses spontaneously by childhood)

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Tumour of adrenal medulla (adults) MC

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phaeochromocytoma - benign

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MC tumour of adrenal medulla kids

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Neuroblastoma - malignant

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MC type of hodgkins dz

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Nodular sclerosis (vs. mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)

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MC type of non-hodgkin’s

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diffuse large cell

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UTI causes

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E.coli, staphylococcus saprophyticus (young women)

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Viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe

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Vitamin deficiency (US)

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Folate (pregnant women are at high risk - body stores only 3-4m supply; prevents neural tube defects)

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MC acute haemorrhagic cystitis in children

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Adenovirus - MCC acute haemorrhagic cystitis outbreaks in children
- dysuria & haematuria

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MC infantile gastroenteritis

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Rotavirus - reovirus
Predominant global cause of infantile gastroenteritis
MC cause of fatal diarrhoea in children

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Mumps manifestations

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Mumps - parotitis, orchitis, and (rarely) aseptic meningitis

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Type II polyglandular syndrome as/

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Type II polyglandular syndrome
AD, Age of onset mean 24
HLA DR3/DR4
Hashimoto, Addison’s disease, T1DM

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Type I Polyglandular syndrome

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AR, mean age onset 12yo.
No HLA relationship
Addison’s disease, Primary hypoparathyroidism, mucocutaneous candidiasis

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