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Quiz 45 Flashcards

1
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What degenerates in the brain in Huntington Disease?

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Caudate degenerates

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2
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What is the most common renal malignancy in children?

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Wilms tumor

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3
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Does a Wilms tumor cross the midline? What can a Wilms tumor be contrasted with?

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No a Wilms tumor does not cross the midline. It can be contrasted with a neuroblastoma which does cross the midline.

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4
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What is fundic (type A) chronic gastritis?

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Pernicious anemia - autoimmune against parietal cells

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5
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Blowing pansystolic murmur:

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Tricuspid regurgitation (radiates to right side of heart) and mitral regurgitation (radiates to left side of heart)

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Midsystolic crescendo-decrescendo murmur:

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aortic stenosis (right sternal border) and pulmonic stenosis (left sternal border)

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What is the most common initial presentation of neurocysticercosis?

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Seizures

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8
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What causes cysticercosis?

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Taenia solium

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9
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The mesencephalon develops what part of the ventricle system?

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Cerebral aqueduct

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10
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What are key markers for metastatic melanoma?

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S-100 and HMB-45

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11
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What type of hypersensitivity is serum sickness?

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Type III HSR

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12
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What cell surface markers are expressed in follicular lymphoma?

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CD10, CD19, CD20

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13
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What translocation takes place in follicular lymphoma?

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14;18 translocation = bcl-2 activation

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14
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What is seen on CT if middle meningeal artery is torn?

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Epidural hematoma

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What is the middle meningeal artery a branch of?

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The maxillary artery

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16
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How does the maxillary artery enter the cranial cavity?

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Foramen spinosum

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17
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What is the inheritance pattern for Friedreich ataxia?

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Autosomal recessive

18
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What mutation is responsible for Friedreich ataxia?

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Expanded trinucleotide GAA repeat decreasing frataxin expression

19
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What DNA repair mechanism is defective in patients with ataxia telangiectasia?

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Double strand break

20
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What causes subacute sclerosing panencephalitis?

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Measles (robeola)

21
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Where should an intercostal nerve block be injected?

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Just below the rib and lateral to the angle of the rib to be anesthetized

22
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What diseases are target cells seen in?

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Thalassemia, hemoglobin C disease, asplenia, and liver disease

23
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What is confounding bias?

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Unanticipated factors obscure a relationship or make it seem like there is one when there is not.

24
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What is the most common cause of neonatal meningitis?

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Group B streptococci - S. agalactiae

25
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An organism that is catalase neg, coagulase neg, beta hemolytic and bacitracin resistant?

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S. Agalactiae

26
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Organism that is catalase negative, coagulase negative, beta hemolytic and bacitracin sensitive, PYR +

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S. Pyogenes

27
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What is seen in an aspiration of osteoarthritis?

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Clear fluid with high protein content and absence of inflammatory cells.

28
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What cells are seen on peripheral smear of CML?

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Neutrophils, myelocytes, metamyelocytes, basophils

29
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What translocation is seen in CML?

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9;22 - Philadelphia chromosome (BCR-ABL)

30
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Multiple ring enhancing lesions in patient with AIDs

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Toxoplasmosis

31
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How is toxoplasmosis transmitted?

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Ingestion of cysts from undercooked meat.

32
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Posterior cord of the brachial plexus gives rise to what terminal branches?

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Radial and axial branches

33
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What causes epiglottitis in an unvaccinated patient?

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H. Influenzae type B

34
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What is heard on respiratory exam in patients with epiglottitis?

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Inspiratory stridor

35
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Most common cause of epiglottitis in patient up to date on vaccinations?

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S. Pneumoniae

36
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What is H. Influenzae?

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Gram negative rod

37
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What is seen on Xray of a patient with epiglottitis?

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Thumb sign

38
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When does one see the steeple sign?

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Croup (laryngotracheitis)

39
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What is type B gastritis?

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Chronic antral gastritis, associated with H. Pylori infection

40
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What are characteristic findings of acute gastritis on biopsy?

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Patches of erythematous mucosa, sometimes with petechiae and/or ulceration.

41
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Annular pancreas results from what embryonic dysfunction?

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Malrotation of the ventral pancreatic bud that rotates around both the right and left sides of the second part of the duodenum, resulting in duodenal stenosis.

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