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What is the difference between rhinitis & allergic rhinitis?

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allergic rhinitis will have more eosinophils

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What cell is shown in the provided image?

It suggests what type of diagnosis?

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eosinophil

allergic reaction

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What pathology can appear after recurrent attacks of rhinitis?

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inflammatory polyps

(including “allergic” polyps)

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What are nasal polyps?

What types of cells are commonly located within the polyps?

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  • Focal protrusionso f the respiratory mucosa
    • 3-4 cm
    • edematous stroma
    • mixed inflammatory infiltrate
      • neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, plasma cells
      • can become fibrotic over time
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What secondary problem can be caused by nasal polyps?

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can provide a barrier that makes it difficult for mucus to drain out of sinuses & nose

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What are risk factors in kids for nasal polyps?

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cystic fibrosis

aspirin sensitivitvity (& asthma)

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What pathology is shown in the provided image?

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nasal polyp

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What featurs of the dissected polyp ar important for identification?

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  • ulcerated & hemorrhagic on the surface
  • shimmery & shiny
    • edema fluid that undermines the mucosa
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What pathology is shown in the provided microscopic image?

What features helped you to identify it?

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  • respiratory-type epithelium
    • ciliated columnar cells
  • inflammatory edematous infiltrate in the stroma
    • edematous b/c looks white
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What is the cause of chronic rhinitis?

Risk factors?

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sequel to repeated attackes of acute rhinitis with superimposed bacterial infection - obstruction providing optimal location for bacterial growth

deviated nasal septum or nasal polyps

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What are the two most common causes of sinusitis?

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preceded by acute or chronit rhinitis

direct extension of dental infection into maxillary sinus

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What are the most common causes of chronic sinusitis?

Most common etiology of each?

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  • repeated acute sinusitis
    • generally accompanied by outflow obstruction by mucosal inflammation
    • oral cavity inhabitants
  • allergic fungal sinusitis
    • Aspergillus
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What are the contents of the allergic mucin produced by allergic fungal sinusitis?

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sloughed epithelial cells

eosinophils

Charcot-Leyden crystals (breakdown products of eosinophils)

perhaps some fungal hyphae (septate that branch at 45 degrees)

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What condition predisposes individuals to sinusitis?

Describe this condition.

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kartageners syndrome (primary ciliary dyskinesia)

autosomal recessive

dynein arm absent/abnormal

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What conditions are associatd wtih Kartagener syndrome?

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sinusitis

bronchietasis

infertility

situs invertis

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What complications can result from sinusitis?

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  • empyema/mucocele
    • abscess with bugs/mucus inside sinuses
  • osteomyelitis
    • when bugs crawl into the bones
  • septic thrombophlebitis or dural venous sinus
    • bugs & inflammation that make a thrombus in dural venous sinus
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?

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frontal sinus mucocele

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What are the 3 major necrotizing lesions of the nose & upper airways?

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  • mucormycosis
  • granulomatosus with polyangitis
  • extranodal Nk/T-cell lymphoma
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What patients are particularly susceptible to mucormycosis?

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Diabetics & immunocompromised

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What is granulomatosus with polyangitis?

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(Wegeners granulomatosis)

T-cell hypersensitivity reaction to inhaled antigens causing nectorizing granulomas in the respiratory tract

vasculitis small & medium vessels

glomerulonephritis

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Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma is driven by what virus?

Most commonly affected demographic?

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Epstein Barr Virus driven

Males, 5th-6th decade, asian & latin

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What pathology is shown in the provided image?

How can you identify the causitive agent?

How is it treated?

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Mucormycosis

big, fat hyphae typically aseptate & branch at 90 degrees

Treated surgically b/c fast growth

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What pathology is shown in the provided image?

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Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegeners granulomatosis)

necrotizing granulomatous inflammation & vasculitis in small/medium vessels

histiocytes (monocyte) in the microscopic image (multinuceated)

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How is granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegeners granulomatosis) diagnosed?

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cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (c-ANCA) directed agains PR3 or MPO

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What are the 3 diseases driven by Epstein Barr Virus?
1. extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma 2. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma 3. Oral Hairy Leukoplakia
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What are the most common viral causes of pharyngitis & tonsilitis?
Rhino, Echo & Adeno less common -- respiratory syncytial viruses (RSV) & influenza virus
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What are the most common bacterial causes of pharyngitis & tonsilitis?
B-hemolytic stroptococci (may manifest as late sequelae w/ rheumatic fever & glomerulonephritis) sometimes-- S. aureus
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What is a nasopharyngeal angiofibroma? Most commonly affected demographics? Treatment? Complications?
Benign tumor found in the posteriolateral roof of nasal cavity - bleed a lot fair-skinned, red-headed adolescent-youn adults, biological males Surgical removal (locally aggressive nature) Can be fatal due to hemorrhage & intracranial extension
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75% of nasopharyngea angiofibromas have what type of receptors?
androgen
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What features of the provided photo indicate a nasopharyngeal angiofibroma?
asymmetry in the R & L maxillary sinus posterior wall of L sinus is bowed inward by mass extending into nasocavity
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? How do you know?
nasopharyngeal angiofibroma respiratory epithelium overlying numeorus blood vessels in a fibrous tissue vessels are "staghorn" like -- (antlers)
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What is a sinonasal papilloma? What are the 3 types & which is most dangerous? Most commonly affected demographic?
benign neoplasm of the nasal cavity & paranasal sinuses papillomatous proliferation of non-keratinizing squamous and/or columnar epithelium on fibrovascular stalk 1. Endophytic - locally aggressive w/ change malignant transformation * grow down into the stroma 2. Exophytic 3. Cylindrical adult males 30 - 60 years
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Sinonasal Papillomas are related to what virus?
HPV type 6 and 11
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Sinonasal papilloma
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? How do you know?
Papilloma finger-like proliferation of epithelium on fibrovascular stalk
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What is a olfactory neuroblastoma? Most commonly affected demographic? Symptoms? Treatment?
small round blue cell tumor with neuroendocrine marker arise from the neuroectodermal olfactory cells in the mucosa 15 & 50 year Symptoms: nasal obstruction & epistaxis (nose bleed) Combo surgery, radiation & chemotherapy
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What is an example of a neuroendocrin marker?
chromogranin
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? How do you know?
Olfactory neuroblastoma Respiratory epithelium with underlyign infiltrate of small blue cells
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What 3 characteristics define a nasopharyngeal carcinoma? Most commonly affected demographics? Symptoms?
Epithelial malignancy arising in nasopharynx positive for Epstein Barr virus children in africa adults in southern china adults & children in US diets high in nitrosamines (fermented foods & salted fish), smoking & chemical fumes _Symptoms_: nasal obstruction, epistaxis & lump in neck (cervical lymph nodes)
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What type of nasopharyngeal carcinoma has the worst prognosis?
keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma
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What is otits media & what are the most commonly affected demographics?
inflammation inner ear infants & children diabetic persons
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Most common etiological causes of otitis media?
* usually viral * Bacterial (supperative exudate) * acite: *Strep. pneumonae, influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis* * chronic: *Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, S. aureus, Fungus* * ​ear drum perforation, spread to mastoid process, temporal lob abscess * Diabetic person * *Pseudomonas Aeruginosa*
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What is a cholesteatoma? It can arise as a complication of what condition?
non-neoplastic squamous-lined cyst& filled with amorphous debris/cholesterol can erode into the ossicles, the labrynth & the adjacent bone complication of otitis media
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What is the name for abnormal deposition of bone in the middle ear? This can lead to what problems?
otosclerosis slowly progressive hearly loss beginng in early decades
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? How do you know?
Basal cell carcinioma nodule w/ injected blood vessels on the surface eroded ulcer nests of blue cells with peripheral palisating (tumor cells on outside are perpendicular to tumor cells on the inside of the nest)
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What is the cause of tooth caries?
focal demineralization of tooth by acidic metabolites of fermenting surgars from bacteria
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What is gingivitis? What is the cause & what can be the result?
inflammation of the gums poor oral hygeine & leads to plaque accumulation
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What is periodontitis?
inflammatory process that affects the supporting structures of the teeth, alveolar bone & cememtum
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
aphthous ulcer (canker sore)
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What are aphthous ulcers?
single/crops ulceration with a erythematous halo surrounding a yellowish fibropurulent membrane
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What is shown in the provided image?
Irritation (traumatic) fibroma smoooth pink exophytic nodule on the buccal mucosa
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? How do you know? Most commonly affected demographic? Complications?
Pyogenic granuloma erythematous, hemorrhagic & extraphytic mass on gingival mucosa higly vascular proliferation of organizing granulation tissue most common in children, young adults & pregnant women can lead to regression or develop into peripheral ossifyign fibroma
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Peripheral ossifyign fibroma
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? How do you know?
Peripheral giant cell granuloma aggregation of multinucleate, foreign body-like giant cells separated by a fibroangiomatous stroma
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Herpes simplex virus infection (type 1 & less commonly type 2)
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What are the symptoms of Herpes simplex virus infection?
can initially present as gingivostomatitis abrupt onset of vesicles & the ulcers of the oral mucosa 3-4 weeks duration & the dormancy in trigeminal ganglia that results in recurrent stomatitis
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
gingivostomatitis
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What type of cell is shown in the provided image? It is indicative of what pathology?
Tzank cell gigantic epithelial cells with multinucleation Herpes Smplex virus
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? It is most common in what demographics?
oral candidiasis pseudo membrane - can be scraped off (thrush) immunocompromised, diabetics, steroid inhalers/asthma
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What pathology is shown by the provided image? What ar the othe associated symptoms with this illness?
Scarlet Fever (Group A Strep) Raspberry & strawberry tongue (white coating that eventually goes away & leads to hypertrophied taste buds) Rash that starts at the belt & moves up
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Measles Koplik spots (punctate ulcers on buccal mucosa)
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Diptheria Pseudomembrane that can extend all the way down into the trachea
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Lichen Planus (typically cutaneous but can occur in oral mucosa) hyperkeritosis w/ reticulate (lace-like) patter on buccal mucosa
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
pemphigus bulgaris blistering cutaneous disorder that can occur in oral mucosa Vesicles & bullae prone to rupture
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What pathology is shown in the provided image? Most commonly affected demographic?
Oral Hairy Leukoplakia White, confluent pathces of fluffy hyperkerototic thickenings on lateral aspect of tongue immunocompromised -- caused by Epstein Barr Virus
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How can you differentiate oral hairy leukoplakia from oral candidiasis?
the lesions in oral hairy CANNOT be scraped off the CAN be scraped off with candidiasis
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Leukoplakia 25% pre malignant (low-grade squamous dysplasia) can only be diagnosed after primary causes have been excluded
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Leukoplakia is associated with what risk factors?
smoking, chewing tobacco
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What pathology is shown in the provided image?
Erythroplakia Red, velvety risk of malignant gransformation much higher than in leukoplakia (high-grade squamous dysplasia)

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