Key Associations 6

Question 1

Pituitary tumor?

Answer 1

Prolactinoma, somatotropic “acidophilic” adenoma

Question 2

Primary amenorrhea?

Answer 2

Turner syndrome (45,XO)

Question 3

Primary bone tumor (adults)?

Answer 3

Multiple myeloma

Question 4

Primary hyperaldosteronism?

Answer 4

Adenoma of adrenal cortex

Question 5

Primary hyperparathyroidism?

Answer 5

Adenomas, hyperplasia, carcinoma

Question 6

Primary liver cancer?

Answer 6

HCC (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, a1-antitrypsin deficiency)

Question 7

Pulmonary HTN?

Answer 7

COPD

Question 8

Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities?

Answer 8

Buerger’s dz (strongly assoc with tobacco)

Question 9

Renal tumor?

Answer 9

RCC: assoc with von Hippel-Lindaue and cigarette smoking; paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTH, ACTH)

Question 10

Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause?

Answer 10

Cor pulmonale

Question 11

S3 (protodiastolic gallop)?

Answer 11

Increased ventricular filling (left to right shunt, mitral regurg, LV failure [CHF])

Question 12

S4 (presystolic gallop)?

Answer 12

Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)

Question 13

Secondary hyperparathyroidism?

Answer 13

Hypocalcemia of chronic kidney dz

Question 14

Sexually transmitted dz?

Answer 14

Chlamydia (usually coinfected with gonorrhea)

Question 15

SIADH?

Answer 15

Small cell carcinoma of lung

Question 16

Site of diverticula?

Answer 16

Sigmoid colon

Question 17

Sites of atherosclerosis?

Answer 17

Abdominal aorta > coronary artery > popliteal artery > carotid artery

Question 18

Stomach cancer?

Answer 18

Adenocarcinoma

Question 19

Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels?

Answer 19

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)

Question 20

t(14;18)?

Answer 20

Follicular lymphomas (bcl-2 activation)