Key Associations (First Aid Rapid Review) Flashcards
Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Cushing’s ulcer
Increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretion
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burn
Curling’s ulcer
Greatly reduced plasma volume results in 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 mammillary bodies
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia, confusion)
Autosplenectomy
fibrosis and shrinkage
Sickle cell anemia
Hemoglobin S
Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer
H. pylori
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B streptococcus (newborns)
S. pneumoniae/Neisseria meningitidis (kids)
Benign melanocytic nevus
Spitz nevus
m/c in first two decades
Bleeding disorder with GbIb deficiency
Bernard-Soulier syndrome
Defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand’s factor
Brain tumor (adults)
Supratentorial: metastasis > astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) > meningioma > schwannoma
Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
or
spratentorial: craniophayrngioma (cerebellum)
Breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma
in the U.S., 1 in 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 mitral valve)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metastasis
1st degree myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium; “ball and valve”)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus or synringomyelia)