Key Associations EC Flashcards
Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing’s ulcer (increase ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretions)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Chrohn’s disease)
Aneurism, dissecting
Hypertension
Aortic aneurism, abdominal and descending aorta
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurism, arch
Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction
Aortic aneurism, ascending
Marfan’s syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Atrophy of the mammillary bodies
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Autosplenectomy
Sickle cell anemia (hemoglobin S)
Bacteria associated with 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)
Strep. pneumoniae/Neisseria meningitidis (kids)
Benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus (most common in first two decades)
Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)
Brain tumor (adults)
Supratentorial: Metastasis> Astrocytoma (glioblastoma multiforme) > Meningioma > Schwannoma
Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: Medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
Supratentorial: Craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)
Breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma
Breast mass
Fibrocystic change (esp. pre-menopaulsal) Carcinoma (esp. post-menopausal)
Breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
Cardiac manifestation of lupus
Lubman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metatstasis Primary Myxoma (4:1 L to R atrium; "ball and valve")
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus or syringomyelia)
Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)
Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
“it’s CLEAR that your mother was on DES”
Compression fracture
Osteoporosis
type I: postmenopausal woman
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
Tuberculosis (developing world)
SLE (developed world)
Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > LCA
Cretinism
Iodine deficit/hypoparathyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
Iatrogenic (from corticosteroids)
Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma
Paraneoplastic Cushing’s (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot, 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 woman
Multiple sclerosis
DIC
Severe sepsis Obstetric complications Cancer Burns Trauma/Major surgery
Dietary deficit
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker’s diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
Ejection click
Aortic/pulmonary 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 (US) Cervical carcinoma (world)
Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > Aortic (rheumatic fever) > Tricuspid (IV drug use)
Helminth infection (US)
Enterobius vermicularis
Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma-epidural
Rupture of the middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)