Key Associations Flashcards
actinic (solar) keratosis
precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
acute gastric ulcer a/w CNS injury
Cushing ulcer (increased intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric secretion)
acute gastric ulcer a/w severe burns
Curling ulcer
(greatly reduced plasma vol results in sloughing of gastric mucosa
alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
skip lesions
Crohn disease
aneurysm, dissecting
HTN
aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta
Atherosclerosis
aortic aneurysm, arch
3’ syphilis (syphilitic aortitis)
vasa vasorum destruction
aortic aneurysm, ascending
Marfan syndrome
idiopathic cystic medial degradation
atrophy of the mammillary bodies
Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine def causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, & confusion)
autosplenectomy (fibrosis & shrinkage)
Sickle cell anemia
hemoglobin S
bacteria a/w gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer
H. pylori
bacterial meningitis (adults & elderly)
Streptococcus pneumoniae
bacterial meningitis (newborns & kids)
Group B streptococcus/E. coli (newborns),
S. pneumoniae/N. meningitidis (kids)
benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus
MC in 1st two decades
bleeding d/o with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome
defect in platelet adhesion to vWF
brain tumor (adults)
Supratentorial:
metastasis > astrocytoma (GBM) > meningioma > schwannoma
brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial:
medulloblastoma (cerebellum) OR
Supratentorial:
cranipharyngioma
breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma
breast mass
fibrocystic change,
carcinoma (in post menopausal women)
breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
cardiac 1’ tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma
often seen in tuberous sclerosis
cardiac manifestation of lupus
Libman-Sacks endocarditis
nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve
cardiac tumor (adults)
metastasis,
1’ myxoma (4:1 L to R atrium; ‘ball and valve’)
cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari II malformation
chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation
a/w high risk of emboli
chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
compression fracture
Osteoporosis
(type I: postmenopausal women;
type II: elderly)
congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile
constrictive pericarditis
TB (developing world);
SLE (developed world)
coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > LCA
cretinism
iodine deficit/hypothyroidism
Cushing syndrome
- Iatrogenic Cushing (from corticosteroid therapy)
- Adrenocortical adenoma (excess cortisol)
- ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma
- Paraneoplastic Cushing (tumors secrete ACTH)
cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot,
transposition of great vessels,
truncus arteriosus
cyanosis (late; more common)
VSD,
ASD,
PDA
death in CML
blast crisis
death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
dementia
Alzheimer disease,
multiple infarcts
demyelinating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
DIC
severe sepsis, OB complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery
dietary deficit
Iron
diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum
dx by barium swallow
ejection click
Aortic/pulmonary stenosis
esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (WW);
Adenocarcinoma (US)
food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus,
B. cereus
glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease
IgA nephropathy
gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (MC in US); Cervical carcinoma (MC WW)
heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever);
tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
helminth infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm/anal itch), Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm/GI inf)
hematoma-epidural
rupture of middle meningeal artery
trauma; lentiform shaped