Rapid Fire Facts Flashcards
hyperflexible joines, arachnodactyly, aortic dissection, lens dislocation
marfan’s
hereditary nephritis, cataracts, sensorineural hearing loss
alport’s
Most common cause of neural tube defects
folate deficiency
most common cause of congenital malformations in the US?
EtOH use
most common cause of congenital intellectual disability in the US
fetal alcohol syndrome
unilateral facial droop involving the forehead
bell’s palsy (cn 7)
ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
horner’s syndrome
“worst headache of my life”
subarachnoid hemorrhage
Lucid interval following head trauma
epidural hemorrhage
Bloody CSF on LP
subarachnoid hemorrhage
Most common cause of subdural hematoma
rupture of bridging veins
most common cause of epidural hematoma
temporal bone fx
middle meningeal artery rupture
treatment for absence seizures
ethosuxamide
treatment for tonic-clonic seizures
phenytoin, valproic acid, carbamazepine
amyloid deposits in gray matter of the brain
senile plaques (alzheimer’s disease)
drooling farmer
organophosphate poisoning
medical treatment for pheochromocytoma
a-antagonist
selective a1 antagonist used to treat BPH
tamsulosin
continuous machinery-like heart murmur
PDA
“boot-shaped heart”
tetralogy of fallot (or RVH in adult)
Rib notching
coarctation of the aorta
most common congenital anomaly
VSD
most common congenital cause of early cyanosis
tetralogy of fallot
bounding pulses, head-bobbing, diastolic murmur
aortic regurgitation
bone enlargement,bone pain, arthritis
paget’s disease of the bone
vertebral compression fractures
osteoporosis
positive anterior drawer sign
ACL injury
swollen, hard, painful finger joints
osteoarthritis
swollen, boggy, painful finger joints
rheumatoid arthritis
cartilage erosions with polished bone beneath
osteoarthritis
swollen, red, acutely painful great toe joint
gout/podagra
positively birefringent rhomboid-shaped crystals
pseudogout
negatively birefringent needle shaped crystals
gout
bamboo spine on xray
ankylosing spondylitis
HLA-B27
seronegative spondyloarthropathies
anti-smith and anti-ds DNA antibodies
SLE
anti-histone anitbodies
drug induced lupus
Anti-cetromere antibodies
CREST scleroderma
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
(aka Scl-70)
diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-Jo-1 antibodies
polymyositis
Anti-Ro antibodies
Sjogrens syndrome
Facial rash and raynaud phenomenon in a young woman
SLE
Arthritis, drymouth, dry eyes
Sjogrens syndrome
most common cause of death in SLE
Lupus nephritis/nephropathy
keratin pearls on skin biopsy
squamous cell carcinoma
most common malignant skin tumor
basal cell carcinoma
most common cancer in men
prostate cancer
most common cause of urinary obstruction in men
BPH
most common treatment for erectile dysfunction
PDE5 inhibitor (ie/sildenafil)`
dysplastic cervical cells with enlarged, dark nuclei
koilocytes (HPV infection)
diethystilbestrol (DES) exposure
clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
most common tumor in women
leiomyoma
most common gynecologic malignancy worldwide
cervical cancer
chocolate cyst of the ovary
endometriosis
most common benign ovarian tumor
serous cystadenoma
most common malignant ovarian tumor
serous cystadenocarcinoma
disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies
granulosa-theca cell tumors
most common genetic cause of intellectual disability
Trisomy 21 (downs)
Second most common genetic cause of intellectual disability
Fragile X
Horseshoe kidney, congenital heart defects, streak ovaries, and cystic hygroma
Turners (XO)
Rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, microcephaly with prominent occiput and jaw
Trisomy 18 (Edwards)
Most common cancer in women in the US
breast
most common benign breast tumor
fibroadenoma
most common malignant breast tumor
invasive ductal carcinoma
blue dome cyst in the breast
non-proliferative fibrocystic change
treatment for ER(+) breast cancer
tamoxifen
red, itchy, swollen rash on the areola and nipple
Paget’s disease of the breast
branching, filamentous gram (+) rods with sulfer granules
actinomyces israelii
most common medication used for UTI prophylaxis
TMP-SMX
most common bacteria in a patient with struvite kidney stones
proteus mirabilis (then staph)
Standard treatment for T. pallidum
penicillin
Cellulitis from a dog or cat bite
Pasteurella multocida
a non-painful, indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
chancre of primary syphilis
moist, smooth, flat, white genital lesion
condyloma lata of secondary syphilis
large bull’s eye rash
erythema migrans due to lymes disease
calcified granuloma in the lung, plus hilar lymphadenopathy
Ghon complex
Back pain, fever, night sweats and weight loss
Pott’s disease
standard treatment regimen for TB
Rifampin Isoniazid Pyrazinamide Ethambutol "RIPE"
Eczema, recurrent cold abscesses, high serum IgE
hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome (Job syndrome)
Large lysosomal vesicles in phagocytes
Chediak Higashi disease
Toe extension upon stimulating the sole of the foot with a blunt instrument
Babinski reflex
Hyperreflexia, increased muscle tone and positive babinski sign
UMN lesion
hyporeflexia, decreased muscle tone, muscle atrophy
LMN lesion
depigmentation of the substantia nigra
Parkinson’s
chorea, dementia and atrophy of the caudate and putamen
Huntington’s
eosinophilic inclusions in the cytoplasm of neurons
lewy bodies
conjugate lateral gaze palsy, with nystagmus and diplopia during lateral gaze
internuclear opthalmoplegia (MLF lesion)
degeneration of the dorsal columns
tabes dorsalis
demyelinating disease in a young woman
multiple sclerosis
mixed upper and lower motor neuron disease
ALS
Newborn with arm paralysis following a difficult labor
Erb’s palsy
most common cause of dementia
alzheimers disease
second most common cause of dementia
muti-infarct/vascular dementia
extracellular amyloid deposits in the grey matter
alzheimer’s disease
intracellular deposits of hyperphosphorylated tau protein
alzheimer’s disease
intracellular spherical aggregates of tau protein seen on silver stain
Pick bodies (FTD)
Dysphagia, glossitis and iron deficiency anemia
Plummer vinson syndrome
Hematemesis with retching
mallory weiss tear
mucin-filled cell wit ha peripheral nucleus
signet ring cell
most common type of stomach cancer
adenocarcinoma
ovarian metastasis from gastric cancer
krukenberg tumor