Key Associations Flashcards
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Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing ulcer (↑ intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretion)
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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
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Age ranges for patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML
ALL: child
CLL: adult >60
AML: adult ~65
CML: adult 45-85
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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Atherosclerosis
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Ascending or arch aortic aneurysm
3° syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction
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Thoracic aortic aneurysm
Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial generation)
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Aortic dissection
Hypertension
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Atrophy of mammillary bodies
Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)
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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies (e.g. adenocarcinoma, MALToma)
H. pylori
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Bacterial meningitis (adults & elderly)
S pneumoniae
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Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B streptococcus/E coli (newborns)
S pneumoniae/N meningitidis (kids/teens)
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Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma
Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)
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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)
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Brain tumor (adults)
Supratentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma
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Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
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Breast cancer
Invasive ductal carcinoma
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Breast mass
Fibrocystic change
Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
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Breast tumor (benign, young woman)
Fibroadenoma
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Cardiac 1° tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
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Cardiac manifestations of lupus
Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)
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Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metastasis
Myxoma (90% in left atrium; “ball and valve”)
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari II malformation
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Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina)
DES exposure in utero
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
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Congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
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Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
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Constrictive pericarditis
TB (developing world)
Idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)
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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > circumflex
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Cretinism
Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism
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Cushing syndrome
- Iatrogenic (from corticosteroid therapy)
- Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
- ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease)
- Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
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Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of great vessels
Truncus arteriosus
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Death in CML
Blast crisis
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Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
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Dementia
Alzheimer disease Multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
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Demyelinating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
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DIC
Severe sepsis Obstetric complications Cancer Burns Trauma Major surgery Acute pancreatitis APL
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Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
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Ejection click
Aortic stenosis
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Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide)
Adenocarcinoma (US)
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S aureus
B cereus
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Gastric cancer
Adenocarcinoma
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
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Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US) Cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
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Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever)
Tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
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Helminth infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis
Ascaris lumbricoides
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Hematoma - epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)