Med Students Amnesia

Question 1

Addison’s Dz

Answer 1

Primary adrenocoritcal deficiency

Question 2

Addisonian Anemia

Answer 2

Pernicious anemia (Ab to IF or parietal cells = megaloblastic anemia)

Question 3

Albright’s Syndrome

Answer 3

Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, café au lait spots, short stature, young girls

Question 4

Alport’s Syndrome

Answer 4

Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness

Question 5

Argyll-Robertson Pupil

Answer 5

Loss of light reflex constriction (contralateral or bilateral)
Prostitute’s Eye- accommodates but doesn’t react
Pathognomonic for 3 degree Syphilis
Lesion pretectal region of superior colliculus

Question 6

Alzheimer’s

Answer 6

Progressive dementia

Question 7

Arnold-Chiari malformation

Answer 7

cerebellar tonsil herniation through foramen magnum=see thoracolumbar meningomyelocele

Question 8

Barrett’s esophagus

Answer 8

Columnar metaplasia of lower esophagus (inc risk of adenocarcinoma)–constant GERD

Question 9

Bartter’s syndrome

Answer 9

hyperRENINemia

Question 10

Becker’s Muscular Dystrophy

Answer 10

similar to Duchenne, but less severe (mutation, not a deficiency, in dystrophin protein)

Question 11

Bell’s Palsy

Answer 11

CNVII palsy (entire face; recall that UMN lesions only affect LOWER face)

Question 12

Berger’s Disease

Answer 12

IgA nephropathy causing hematuria in kids, usually following infection

Question 13

Bernard-Soulier Disease

Answer 13

Defect in platelet adhesion (abnormally large platelets and lack of platelet surface glycoprotein)

Question 14

Berry Aneurysm

Answer 14

Circle of willis (subarachnoid bleed) Anterior Communicating artery….. or…. Often associated with ADPKD (Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease)

Question 15

Bowen’s Disease

Answer 15

Carcinoma in situ on shaft of penis

Question 16

Brill-Zinsser Dz

Answer 16

Recurrences of rickettsia prowazaki up to 50 yrs later

Question 17

Briquet’s Syndrome

Answer 17

Somatization disorder

Psychological: multiple physical complaints without physical pathology

Question 18

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 18

Motor aphasia (area 44&45) intact comprehension

Question 19

Brown-Sequard

Answer 19

Hemisection of cord (contralateral loss of pain & temp/ ipsilateral loss of fine touch, UWN/ipsilateral loss of cons. proprioception)

Question 20

Bruton’s Dz

Answer 20

X-linked agammaglobunemia (Decreased B Cells)