Rapid Review Flashcards
Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly
Budd-Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholesterolemia (decreased LDL receptor signaling)
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC
Waterhouse Friedrichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints
Marfan syndrome
Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss
Pott disease (vertebral TB)
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis
Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)
Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta (Type I collagen defect)
Bluish line on gingiva
Burton line (lead poisoning)
Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis
Paget disease of bone (increased osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)
Bounding pulses, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing
Aortic regurgitation
Café-au-lait spots, Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma)
Neurofibromatosis type I (+ pheochromocytoma, optic gliomas)
Café-au-lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, mutliple endocrine abnormalities
McCune-Albright (mosaic G-protein signaling mutation)
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Muscular dystrophy (Duchenne = most common; X-linked deletion of dystrophin gene)
“Cherry-red spots” on macula
Tay-Sachs (acc. ganglioside); Nieman-Pick (acc. sphingomyelin); central retinal artery occlusion
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI
Dresser syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post-MI fibrinous pericarditis, 1-12 wks after acute episode)
Child w/ fever later develops red rash on face that spreads to body
“Slapped cheeks” (erythema infectiosum/fifth disease: parvovirus B19)
Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration
Huntington disease (autosomal dominant CAG repeat expansion)
Chronic exercise intolerance w/ myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria
McArdle disease (muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diploplia
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral [MS], unilateral [stroke]
Continuous “machine-like” heart murmur
PDA (close w/ indomethacin; open/maintain with misoprostol)
Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition
Myxedema (caused by hypothyroidism, Graves disease [pretibial])
Dark purple skin/mouth nodules in pt w/ AIDS
Kaposi sarcoma, ass. w/ HHV-8
Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (niacin [vit B3] deficiency)
Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, alcoholism/malnutrition
Wet beriberi (thiamine [vit B1] deficiency)
Dog/cat bite resulting in infection
Pasteurella multocida
Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis
Sjögren syndrome (autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)
Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)
Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node
Virchow node (abdominal metastasis)
Erythroderma, LAD, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells
Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) or Sézary syndrome (mycosis fungoides + malignant T cells in blood)
Facial muscle spasm upon tapping
Chvostek sign (hypocalcemia)
Fat, female, forty, and fertile
Cholelithiasis
Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphilis
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release)
Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash
Measles
Fever, night sweats, weight loss
B symptoms (staging) of lymphoma
Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
Peyronie disease (connective tissue disorder)
Gout, intellectual disability, self-mutilating behavior in a boy
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linked recessive)
Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyper pigmentation of mouth/feet/hands
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (inherited, benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; increase cancer risk, mainly GI)
Hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic symptoms
Gaucher disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)
Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts
Alport syndrome (mutation in collagen IV); “Can’t see, can’t pee, can’t hear high-C”
Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility
Klüver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)
Hyperreflexia, hypertonia, Babinski sign present
UMN damage
Hyporeflexia, hypotonia, atrophy, fasciculations
LMN damage
Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia
“Blue bloater” (Chronic bronchitis: hyperplasia of mucous cells)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Nonpainful: chancre (primary syphilis: treponema pallidum)
Painful, w/ exudate: chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
“You ‘do cry’ w/ H. ducreyi”
Infant w/ cleft lip/palate, microcephaly or holoprosencephaly, polydactyly, cutis aplasia
Patau syndrome (trisomy 13)
Infant w/ failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, and neurodegeneration
Nieman-Pick disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)
Infant w/ hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, and hepatomegaly
Cori disease (debranching enzyme deficiency) or Von Gierke disease (glucose-6-P deficiency, more severe)
Infant w/ microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect
Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
Jaundice, palpable distended non-tender gallbladder
Courvoisier sign (distal obstruction of biliary tree)
Large rash w/ bull’s-eye appearance
Erythema chronicum migraines from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme disease: Borrelia)
Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury
Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)
Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells
Bruton disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)
Mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time
Glanzmann thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIb/IIIa)
Muffled hear sounds, distended neck veins, hypotension
Beck triad of cardiac tamponade
Multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted/supernumerary teeth
Gardner syndrome (subtype of FAP)
Myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance
Pompe disease (lysosomal alpha-1,4-glucosidase deficiency)
Neonate w/ arm paralysis following difficult birth
Erb-Duchenne palsy (superior trunk [C5-C6] brachial plexus injury: “waiter’s tip”
No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance
Sheehan syndrome (pituitary infarction)
Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia
Multiple Sclerosis
Oscillating slow/fast breathing
Cheyne-Stokes respirations (central apnea in CHF or increased intracranial pressure)
Painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia
Cold agglutinin disease (AI hemolytic anemia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis)
Painful, pale, cold fingers/toes
Raynaud phenomenon (vasospasm in extremities)
Painful, raised red lesions on pad of fingers/toes
Osler nodes (infective endocarditis, immune complex deposition)
Painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles
Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis, septic emboli/microabscesses)
Painless jaundice
Cancer of the pancreatic head obstructing bile duct
Palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abdominal pain (child), hematuria
Henoch-Schönlein purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)
Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors
MEN 1 (autosomal dominant)
Periorbital and/or peripheral edema, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia
Nephrotic syndrome
Pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation
“Pink puffer” (emphysema: centriacinar [smoking], panacinar [alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency])
Polyuria, renal tubular acidosis type II, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances, hypophosphatemic rickets
Fanconi syndrome (proximal tubular reabsorption defect)
Pruritic, purple, polygonal planar papules and plaques (6 P’s)
Lichen planus
Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
Horner syndrome (sympathetic chain lesion)
Pupil accommodates but doesn’t react
Argyll Robertson pupil (neurosyphilis)
Rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends following GI/upper resp infections
Guillain-Barré syndrome (acute autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)
Rash on palms and soles
Coxsackie A, secondary syphilis, Rocky Mt spotted fever
Recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE
Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job syndrome: neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality)
Red “currant jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Red “currant jelly” stools
Acute mesenteric ischemia (adults); intussusception (infants)
Red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola
Paget disease of the breast (sign of underlying neoplasm)
Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
RCC (bilateral), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma
von Hippel-Lindau disease (dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation)
Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability
Parkinson disease (nigrostriatal dopamine depletion)
Retinal hemorrhages w/ pale centers
Roth spots (bacterial endocarditis)
Severe jaundice in neonate
Crigler-Najjar syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)
Severe RLQ pain w/ palpation of LLQ
Rovsing sign (acute appendicitis)
Severe RLQ pain w/ rebound tenderness
McBurney sign (acute appendicitis)
Short stature, increased incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia
Fanconi anemia (genetic loss of DNA cross link repair; often progresses to AML)
Single palmar crease
Down syndrome
Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility
Kartagener syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia)
Skin hyperpigmentation, hypotension, fatigue
Addison disease (primary adrenocortical insufficiency –> increased ACTH and increased alpha-MSH production)
Slow, progressive muscle weakness in boys
Becker muscular dystrophy (X-linked missense mutation in dystophin; less severe than Duchenne)
Small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa w/ blue-white centers
Koplik spots (measles; rubeola virus)
Smooth, flat, moist, painless white lesions on genitals
Condylomata lata (secondary syphilis)
Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails
Bacterial endocarditis
“Strawberry tongue”
Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome
Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema
Turner syndrome (45, XO)
Sudden swollen/painful big toe joint, tophi
Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)
Swollen gums, mucosal bleeding, poor wound healing, petechiae
Scurvy (Vit C deficiency; can’t hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis)
Swollen, hard, painful finger joints
Osteoarthritis (osteophytes on PIP [Bouchard nodes], DIP [Heberden nodes])
Systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)
Aortic valve stenosis
Medullary thyroid CA, parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma
MEN 2A (autosomal dominant ret mutation)
Medullary thyroid CA, pheochromocytoma, mucosal neuromas
MEN 2B (autosomal dominant ret mutation)
Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape
Babinski sign (UMN lesion)
Unilateral facial drooping involving forehead
Facial nerve (LMN CN VII palsy)
Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male
Reactive arthritis (ass. w/ HLA-B27)
Vascular birthmark (port-wine stain)
Hemangioma (benign, but ass. w/ Sturge-Weber syndrome)
Weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy
Whipple disease (Tropheryma whipplei)
Anticentromere antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies
Goodpasture syndrome (glomerulonephritis & hemoptysis)
Antihistone antibodies
Drug induced SLE (hydrazine, INH, phenytoin, procainamide)
Anti-IgG antibodies
Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniére deformity)
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)
Microscopic polyangiitis and Churg-Strauss syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA); granulomatosis w/ polyangiitis (Wegener; PR3-ANCA/c-ANCA)
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: anti-Smith & anti-dsDNA)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
Diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies
Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, weight loss)
“Apple core” lesion on abdominal x-ray
Colorectal cancer (usually left-sided)
Azurophilic peroxidase positive granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts
Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic [M3] type)
Bacitracin response
Sensitive: Streptococcus pyogenes (group A); resistant: Stretococcus agalactiae (group B)
“Bamboo spine” on x-ray
Akylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
Basophilic stippling of RBCs
Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
Bloody tap on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
“Boot-shaped” heart on x-ray
Tetrolagy of Fallot, RVH
Branching gram-positive rods w/ sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging
Pancoast tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner syndrome)
“Brown” tumor of bone
Hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown color)
Cardiomegaly w/ apical atrophy
Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
Cellular crescents in Bowman capsule
Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
“Chocolate cyst” of ovary
Endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries)
Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
Cystic fibrosis (AR mutation in CFTR gene –> fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)