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Actinic (solar) keratosis

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Precursor for Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing ulcer (elevated ICP 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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4
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Age ranges for patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML

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

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5
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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Skip lesions (Crohns 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 aoirtitis) –> vasa vasorum destrxn

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Aortic aneurysm, thoracic

Mitral valve prolapse

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Marfan syndrome (iodiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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9
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Aortic dissxn

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HTN

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Atrophy of the mamillary bodies

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

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11
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle cell disease (HbS)

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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, gastric malignancies (e.g. adenocarcinoma, MALToma)

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Haemophilus Pylori

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13
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Bacterial meningitis (adults/elderly >60)

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S. pneumoniae

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Bacterial meningitis (neonates/kids)

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Group B streptococcus/E. coli (neonates)

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 w/ GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome

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17
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Brain 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 (cerubellum)
Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma

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19
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Breast cancer

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Invasive ductal carcinoma

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20
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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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Acanthosis nigricans

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Obesity/insulin resistance, gastric adenocarcinoma and visceral malignancies

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22
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Sign of Leser-Trelat (multiple seborrheic keratoses)

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GI adenocarcinomas and other visceral malignancies

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23
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Hypercalcemia (from PTHrP)

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Squamous cell carcinomas (lung, head, neck); renal, bladder, breast and ovarian carcinomas

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24
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Hypercalcemia (elevated 1,25-(OH)2 Vitamin D3 - aka calcitriol)

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Lymphoma (contain 1-alpha-hydroxylase)

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25
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Cushing syndrome (paraneoplastic ACTH elevation)

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Small cell lung cancer

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26
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Hyponatremia (paraneoplastic ADH elevation)

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Small cell lung cancer

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27
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Subacute cerebellar degeneration

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Anti-Hu/Yo/Tr antibodies against Purkinje cells of cerebellum - Small cell lung cancer, gynecologic/breast cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma

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Breast tumor (benign, young woman)

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Fibroadenoma

29
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Cardiac 1° tumor (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma, often in tuberous sclerosis

30
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Cardiac manifestation of lupus

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Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial) - both sides of valve

31
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Cardiac tumor (adults)

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

32
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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Chiari II malformation

33
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Chronic arrythmia

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A. Fib. (emboli risk)

34
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

35
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of vagina

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DES exposure in utero

36
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

37
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Congenital cardiac anomaly (most common)

38
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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)

39
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Constrictive pericarditis

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

40
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From most to least common: Coronary artery involved in thrombosis

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LAD>RCA>circumflex

41
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Death in CML

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Blast crisis

42
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Death in SLE

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Lupus nephropathy

43
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Dementia

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Alzheimer’s disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)

44
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Cretinism

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Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism

45
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Cushing syndrome

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  1. Iatrogenic (from corticosteroid Rx)
  2. Adrenocortical adenoma (excess cortisol)
  3. ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease)
  4. Paraneoplastic (Small cell lung cancer - other tumors secreting ACTH)
46
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Cyanosis (early/congenital; less common than late)

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Tetrology of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus

47
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Demyelinating disease in young women

48
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DIC

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Severe sepsis, obstetric complications (amniotic embolism, etc.), cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery, acute pancreatitis, Acute promyelocytic leukemia

49
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Diverticulum in pharynx

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Zenker diverticulum (Dx by barium swallow) - false diverticulum

50
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Ejection click

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Aortic stenosis

51
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Esophageal cancer

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Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (US)

52
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)

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S. Aureus, B. Cereus

53
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Gastric cancer

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Adenocarcinoma

54
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)

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Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)

55
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Gynecological malignancy

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

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Heart murmur, congenital

57
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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis

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Mitral>aortic (rheumatic fever); tricuspid (IV drugs)

58
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Helminth infection (US)

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Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides

59
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Hematoma-epidural

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Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)

60
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Hematoma-subdural

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Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)

61
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Hemochromatosis

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Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can lead to HF, “bronze diabetes”, and increase risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)

62
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

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

63
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Hereditary bleeding disorder

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von Willebrand disease

64
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Hereditary harmless jaundice

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Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)

65
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HLA-B27

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

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HLA-DR3

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DM type 1, SLE, Graves disease, Hashimoto thryroiditis, Addison disease

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HLA-DR4

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DM type 1, RA, Addison disease

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