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)
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
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)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (developed world)
Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > LCA
Cretinism
Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
Iatrogenic Cushing’s (from corticosteroid therapy)
Adrenocortical denoma (secretes excess cortisol)
ACTH-secretinanosis (earlyg pituitary adenoma
Paraneoplastic Cushing’s (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of 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
Multiple sclerosis
DIC
Severe sepsis Obstetric complication Cancer Burns Trauma Major surgery
Dietary deficit
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker’s diverticulum
Diagnosed by barium swallow
Ejection click
Aortic/pulmonic stenosis
Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide)
Adenocarcinoma (U.S)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus
B. cereus
Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger’s disease
IgA nephropathy
Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (m/c in US) Cervical carcinoma (m/c worldwide)
Heart murmur, congenital
MVP
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > Aortic (rheumatic fever)
Tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
Helminth infection (U.S)
Enterobius vermicularis
Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma-epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery
Trauma, Lentiform shaped