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1
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Actinic (solar) keratosis

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Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing ulcer (increase intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric H secretion)

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns

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Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)

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Age range for patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML

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ALL: child,
CLL: adults > 60,
AML: adult ~ 65,
CML: 45 - 85

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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Skip lesions (Crohn disease)

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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal

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Atherosclerosis

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Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch

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3 syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction

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Aortic aneurysm, thoracic

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Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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Aortic dissection

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Hypertension

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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies

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Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)

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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)

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Bacteria associated with gastric, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies (adenocarcinoma, MALToma)

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H. pylori

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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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S. pneumoniae

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Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)

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Group B streptococcus/E. coli (newborns), S. pneumoniae/N meningitidis (kids/teens)

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Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma

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Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)

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16
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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)

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17
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Brian tumor (adults)

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

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18
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Brain tumor (kids)

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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma

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Breast cancer

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Invasive ductal carcinoma

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Breast mass

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Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

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21
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Breast tumor (benign, young woman)

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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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23
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Cardiac manifestation of lupus

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Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)

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Cardiac tumor (adults)

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Metastasis, myxoma (90% in left atrium; “ball and valve”)

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25
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari II malformation

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26
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Chronic arrhythmia

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Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)

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27
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Chronic strophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

28
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

29
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

30
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Congenital cardiac anomaly

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VSD

31
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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)

32
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Constrictive pericarditis

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TB (developing world); idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)

33
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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis

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LAD > RCA > circumflex

34
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Cretinism

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Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism

35
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Cushing syndrome

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Iatrogenic (from corticosteroid therapy)
Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease)
Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)

36
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Cyanosis (early; less common)

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Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus

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

39
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Dementia

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Alzheimer’s disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)

40
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Demyelinating disease in young women

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Multiple sclerosis

41
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DIC

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Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery, acute pancreatitis, APL

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Diverticulum in pharynx

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Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)

43
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Ejection click

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Aortic stenosis

44
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Esophageal cancer

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Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (US)

45
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)

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S. aureus, B. cereus

46
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Gastric cancer

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Adenocarcinoma

47
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)

48
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Gynecologic malignancy

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Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)

49
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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 > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)

51
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Helminth infection (US)

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Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides

52
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Hematoma - epidural

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Rupture of middle meningeal artery (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 blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in heart in heart failure, “bronze diabetes,” and increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)

55
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

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Cirrhotic liver (associated with hepatitis B and C and with alcoholism)

56
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Hereditary bleeding disorder

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von Willebrand disease

57
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Hereditary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

58
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HLA-B27

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Psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, IBD-associated arthritis, reactive arthritis (formerly Reiter syndrome)

59
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HLA-DR3

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Diabetes mellitus type 1, SLE, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, Addison disease

60
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HLA-DR4

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Diabetes mellitus type 1, rheumatoid arthritis, Addison disease

61
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Holosystolic murmur

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VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation

62
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Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis

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Virchow triad (increase risk of thrombosis)

63
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Hypertension, secondary

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Renal artery stenosis, chronic kidney disease (polycystic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy), hyperaldosteronism

64
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Hypoparathyroidism

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Accidental excision during thyroidectomy

65
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Hypopituitarism

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Pituitary adenoma (usually benign tumor)

66
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Infection secondary to blood transfusion

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Hepatitis C

67
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Infections in chronic granulomatous disease

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S aureus, E. coli. Aspergillus (catalase +)

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