Key Associations Flashcards
actinic (solar) keratosis
precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing ulcer
increased intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric secretion
acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Curling ulcer
greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa
alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
Aneurysm, dissection
HTN
aortic aneurysms, abdominal and descending aorta
atherosclerosis
aortic aneurysm, arch
tertiary syphilis (syphilitic arthritis), vasa vasorum destruction
aortic aneurysm, ascending
Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
atrophy of the mammillary bodies
Wernicke encephalopathy
thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia and confusion
autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
Sickle cell anemia (hemoglobin S)
bacteria associated with gastric, peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer
H. pylori
bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
Streptococcus pneumoniae
bacterial meningitis (newborns)
Group B streptococcus
E. coli
bacterial meningitis (kids)
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Neisseria meningitidis
benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus (most common in 1st 2 decades)
bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)
brain tumor (adults)
supratentorial
metastasis > astrocytoma (including glioblastoma) > meningioma > schwannoma
brain tumor (kids)
Intratentorial: medulloblastoma
supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (suprasellar)
breast cancer
infiltrating ductal carcinoma
breast mass
fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
breast tumor (benign)
fibroadenoma
primary cardiac tumor in children
rhabdomyoma
often seen in tuberous sclerosis
cardiac manifestation of lupus
Libman-Sacks endocarditis, nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve
cardiac tumor in adults
metastasis primary myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium; "ball and valve")
cerebellar tonsilar herniation
Chiari II malformation
chronic arrhythmia
atrial fibrillation (associated with a 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 man or woman
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 (2/2 chronic corticosteroid use)
- adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
- ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma
- paraneoplastic Cushing (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
congenital heart disease cyanosis (early)
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- transposition of the great vessels
- truncus arteriosus
congenital heart disease cyanosis (late)
VSD, ASD, PDA
more common
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, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, massive surgery
dietary deficiency
iron
diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum
diagnosed by barium swallow
Ejection click
aortic/pulmonic stenosis
esophageal cancer
squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide)
adenocarcinoma (US)
food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus
B. cereus
glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
gynecologic malignancy
endometrial carcinoma (most common in US) cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
congenital heart murmur
mitral valve prolapse
heart valves involved in bacterial endocarditis
mitral > aortic (damaged by rheumatic fever)
tricuspid (IVDU)
helminth infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis
Ascaris lumbricoides