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Key Associations Flashcards

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Actinic keratosis

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precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

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Acute gastric ulcers associated with CNS injury

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cushing’s ulcer (inc ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretions)

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Acute gastric ulcers associated with severe burns

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curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in a sloughing of gastric mucous)

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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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skip lesions = crohn’s disease

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Aneurysm, dissecting

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Hypertension

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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta

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Atherosclerosis

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Aortic aneurysm, ascending

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Marfan’s syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies

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Wernike’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia, and confusion)

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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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sickle cell anemia (HbS)

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Bacteria associated with gastric, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer

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H. pylori

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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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Neisseria meningitidis

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Bacterial meningitis (newborn and kids)

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newborns - group B strep

kids - S. pneumonia/Neisseria meningitidis

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13
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Benign melanocytic nevus

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spitz nevus

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Bleeding dissorder with GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-soulier disease (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand’s factor)

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Brain tumor (adults)

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supratentorial: mets>astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiform) > meninginoma >schwannoma

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brain tumor (kids)

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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)

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Breast cancer

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infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in the US, 1 in 9 women develop)

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Breast Mass

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  1. Fibrocystic change

2. Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

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Breast tumor (benign)

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Fibroadenoma

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Cardiac primary tumor (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis

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cardiac manifestation of lupus

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libman-sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)

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cardiac tumors (adults)

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  1. metastasis

2. Primary myxoma (“ball and valve” 4:1 right to left atrium)

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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus and syringomyelia)

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Chronic arrhythmia

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Atrial Fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)

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25
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (an also cause pernicious anemia)

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Clear cel adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

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27
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Compression fracture

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Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal women; type II: elderly men and women)

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28
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

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29
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congenital cardiac anomaly

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VSD

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30
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congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)

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Dubin-johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)

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31
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constrictive pericarditis

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Tuberculosis (developing world); systemic lupus erythematosus (developed world)

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32
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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis

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LAD > RCA > LCA

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33
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Cretinism

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Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism

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Cushing’s syndrome

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  1. Corticosteroid therapy
  2. Excessive ACTH secretion by pituitary
  3. Small cell lung carcinoma
35
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Cyanosis (early - less common)

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Tetralogy of fallot, transpositon of great vessels, truncus arteriosus

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cyanosis (late; more common)

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VSD, ASD, PDA

37
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Death in CML

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Blast crisis

38
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Death in SLE

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Lupus Nephropathy

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Dementia

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  1. Alzheimer’s

2. Multiple infarcts

40
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Demyelinating disease in young women

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multiple sclerosis

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DIC

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Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complicaitons, cancer, burn trauma

42
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dietary deficit

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diverticulum in pharynx

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zenker’s diverticulum (dx by barium swallow)

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Ejection click

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Aortic/pulmonic stenosis

45
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Esophageal cancer

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Squamous cell (world wide) ; adenocarcinoma (US)

46
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food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)

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s. aureus ; b. cereus

47
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger’s disease

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Gynecologic malignancy

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Endometrial carcinoma (MC US) cervical carcinoma (MC World Wide)

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Heart murmur, congenital

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mitral valve prolapse

50
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heart valve in bacterial endocarditis

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Mitral (rhumatic fever), tircuspid (IV drug abuse), aortic (2nd affected in rheumatic fever)

51
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Helmenth infection (US

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  1. Enterobius vermicularis

2. Ascaris lumbricoides

52
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Hematoma - epidural

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rupture of MMA (trauma; lentiform shaped)

53
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Hematoma - subdural

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rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)

54
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Hemochromatosis

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Multiple bood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in CHF, bronze diagetes, and increase risk for hepatocellular carcinoma)

55
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

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cirrhotic liver (associated with hepatitis B and C)

56
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Hereditary bleeding disorder

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von Willebrand’s disease

57
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Hereditary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert’s syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

58
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HLA B27

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Ankylosing spondylitis
Reiter’s syndrome
Ulcerative colitis
Psoriasis

59
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HLA DR3 of DR4

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Diabetes Mellitus type I
Rheumatoid Arthritis
SLE

60
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Holosystolic murmur

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VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation

61
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Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis

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virchow’s triad (results in venous thrombosis)

62
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Hypertenison, 2ndary

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renal disease

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Hypoparathyroidism

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accidental excision during thyroidectomy

64
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Hypopituitarism

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pituitary adenoma (usually benign tumor)

65
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Infection 2ndary to blood transfusion

66
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Infections in chronic granulomatous disease

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Staph aureus, E. coli, Aspergillus

67
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Kidney Stones

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  1. Calcium = radiopaque
  2. Struvite (ammonium) = radiopaque (formed by urease-positive organism such as Proteus vulgaris or staphylococcus)
  3. Uric acid = radiolucent
68
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Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected L-R becomes R-L)

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Eisenmenger’s syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA; results in pulmonary hypertension/polycythemia)

69
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Liver Disease

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Alcoholic Cirrhosis

70
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Lysosomal storage disease

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Gaucher’s Disease

71
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Male Cancer

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Prostatic carcinoma

72
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Malignancy assocaiated with noninfectious fever

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

73
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Malignant skin tumor

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Basal cell carcinoma (rarely mets)

74
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Mental Retardation

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  1. Downs

2. Fragile X

75
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Metasteses to bone

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breast, lung, thyroid, testes, porstate, kidney

76
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Mets to brain

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Lung, breast, skin (melanoma), kidney (RCC), GI

77
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Mets to liver

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Colon, gastric, pancreatic, breast, and lung carcinoma

78
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Mitochondrial inheritance

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Disease occurs in both males and females, inherited through female only

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Mitral valve stenosis

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Rheumatic heart disease

80
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Mixed UMN and LMN diesease

81
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Myocarditis

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Coxsackie B

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