Key Associations Flashcards
Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing’s ulcer (1’ ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretion)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn’s disease)
Aneurysm, dissecting
Hypertension
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurysm, ascending
3” syphilis, Marfan’s syndrome
Atrophy of the mammillary bodies
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
Sickle cell anemia (HbS)
Bacteria associated with stomach cancer
H. pylori
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
Neisseria meningitid
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B streptococcus (newborns), S. pneumoniae/Neisseria meningifidis (kids)
Benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus (most common in first two decades)
Bleeding disorder with Gplb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier disease (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand’s factor)
Brain tumor (adults)
Supratentorial: mets > astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) > meningioma > schwannoma
Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma, (cerebrum)
Breast cancer Infiltrating ductal carcinoma
(in the United States, 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer)
Breast mass
- Fibrocystic change 2. Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
Breast tumor
(benign) Fibroadenoma
Cardiac 1 * tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma
Cardiac manifestation of lupus
Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting mitral)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
- Metastasis 2. 1* myxina (4:1 left to right atrium; “ball and valve)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive nyarocepnalus or syringomyelia)
Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with 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
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 in developing world
Tuberculosis
Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > LCA
Cretinism
Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
- Corticosteroid therapy 2. Excess ACTH secretion by pituitary
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’s disease 2. Multiple infarcts
Demyelinating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
DIC
Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burn trauma
Dietary deficit
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker’s diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
Ejection click
Aortic /pulmonic stenosis
Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (U.S.)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus, B. cereus
Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger’s disease (IgA nephropathy)
Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common)
Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse), aortic (2nd affected in rheumatic fever)
Helminth infection (U.S.)
- Enterobius vermicularis 2. Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma-epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (lentiform shaped, trauma)
Hematoma-subdural
Rupture of bridging veins (cresant shaped)