Key Associations Flashcards
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Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor the squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer assoc w/ CNS injury
Cushing’s ulcer (incr ICP –> vagal gastric secretion)
Acute gastric ulcer assoc w/ severe burns
Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume –> sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn’s disease)
Aneurysm, dissecting
HTN
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurysm, arch
Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction
Aortic aneurysm, ascending
Marfan’s syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Atrophy of the mammary bodies
Wernick’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
Sickle cell anemia
Bacteria assoc w/ gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer
H. pylori
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
Strep pneumoniae
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B strep (newborns), S. pneumoniae/Neisseria meningitides (kids)
Benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus (most common in first 2 decades)
Bleeding disorder with Gp1b deficiency
Bernard-Soulier deficiency (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)
Brain tumor (adults)
Supertentorial: metastasis> astrocytoma (incl glioblastoma multiforme)> meningioma> schwannoma
Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)
Breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in US, 1/9 women will develop breast cancer)
Breast mass
Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
Breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
Cardiac manifestation of lupus
Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of the mitral valve)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metastasis (most common), primary= myxoma (4:1 left: right atrium; “ball and valve”)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari malformation (often presents w/ progressive hydrocephalus or syringomyelia)
Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (assoc w/ high risk of emboli)
Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
Compression fracture
Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal women, type II: elderly man or woman)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
Constrictive pericarditis
Tb (developing world); SLE (developed world)
Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD>RCA>LCA
Cretinism
Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
Iatrogenic Cushing’s (from corticosteroid therapy)
Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
ACTH_secreting pituitary adenoma
Paraneoplastic Cushing’s (from ACTH secretion by tumors)
Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallow
Transposition of the great vessels
Truncus arteriosus
Cyanosis (late; more common)
VSD, ASD, PDA
Death in CML
Blast crisis
Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
Dementia
Alzheimer’s disease, multiple infarcts
Demyelinating disease in young women
MS
DIC
Severe sepsis; obstetric complications; cancer; burns; trauma; major surgery
Dietary deficit
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker’s diverticulum (dx by barium swallow)
Ejection click
Aortic/pulmonic stenosis
Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (US)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus; B. cereus
Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger’s disease (IgA nephropathy)
Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
Heart murmur, congenital
MVP
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral>aortic (rheumatic fever); tricuspid (IV drugs)
Helminth infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis; Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma–epidural
Rupture of MMA (trauma, lentiform shaped)