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 acid 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?
Crohns disease (skip lesions)
aortic aneurysm, abdominal
atherosclerosis
aortic anuerysm, ascending or arch
tertiary syphillis (syphilitic aortitis) vasa vasorum destruction
aortic aneurysm, thoracic
marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
aoritc dissection
hypertension
atrophy of mamillary bodies
wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthamoplegia, and confusion)
autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
sick cells disease (hemoglobin S)
bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer
h pylori
bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
strep pneumo
bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group b strep / e coli (newborns)
s pneumo / n meningitidis (kids/teens)
bilateral ovarian mets from gastric carcinoma
bernard-soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)
brain tumor (Adults)
supratentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma
brain tumor (child)
infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
breast cancer
invasive ductal carcinoma
breast mass
fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal)
breast tumor (benign)
fibroadenoma
cardiac primary tumor (kids)
rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
cardiac manifestation of lupus
marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial) - both sides of valve
cardiac tumor (adults)
mets, myxoma (90% in left atrium; ball and valve)
cerebellar tonsillar herniation
chiari II malformation
chronic arrhythmia
atrial fibrillation (assoicated with high risk of emboli)
chornic 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, with hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
congential conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Dubin johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
constrictive peridcarditis
TB (developing world); idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)
coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD>RCA>Circumflex
cretinism
iodine deficiency / congenital hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
iatrogenic (from corticosteroid therapy)
adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
acth-secreting pituitary adenoma (cushing’s disease)
paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetrology of Fallot, transposition of the great vessels, truncus arteriosus (one vessel)
Cyanosis (late; more common)
VSD; ASD; PDA
Death in CML
Blast crisis (>30% cells are blasts)
Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Dementia
Alzheimer disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
demyelinating disease in young women
ms
DIC
severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery
diverticulum in pharynx
zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
dietary deficit
iron
esophageal cancer
squamous cell carcinoma (world wide); adenocarcinoma (US)
food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S aureus
Bacillus cereus
glomerulonephritis (Adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
gynecologic malignancy
endometrial carcinoma (most common in US); cervical cancer (most common worldwide)
heart murmur, congenital
mitral valve prolapse
heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
mitral>aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
helminth infections (US)
Enterobius vermicularis, ascaris lumbricoides
hematoma - epidural
rupture of middle meningal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped) - like eye
hematoma -subdural
rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)
hemochromatosis
multiple blood transufrions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in hear failure, “bronze diabetes” and increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma
hepatocelluar carcinoma
cirrhotic liver (associted with hep B and C and with alcoholism)
hereditary bleeding disorder
von willebrand disease
hereditary harmless jaundice
gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)