Rapid Review Flashcards
Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly
Budd-Chiari syndrome (posthepatic venous thrombosis)
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholesterolemia (low LDL receptor signaling)
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyper flexible joints
Marfans syndrome (fibrillin defect)
Athlete with polycythemia
Erythropoietin injection
Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss
Potts disease (vertebral TB)
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis
Sarcoidosis (noncaseating granulomas)
Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta (collagen defect)
Bluish line on gingiva
Burton’s line (lead poisoning)
Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis
Paget’s disease of bone (increased osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)
Bounding pulses, diastolic heart murmur, head bobbing
Aortic regurgitation
Butterfly facial rash and Raynaud’s phenomenon in a young female
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Cafe au lait spots, Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma)
Neurofibromatosis type I (+ pheochromocytoma, optic gliomas)
Neurofibromatosis type II (+bilateral acoustic neuromas)
Cafe au lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty
McCune-Albright syndrome (mosaic G protien signaling mutation)
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Muscular dystrophy (most commonly Duchennes): X linked recessive deletion of dystrophin gene
Cherry red spot on macular
Tay Sachs (ganglioside accumulation) or Niemann-Pick (sphingomyelin accumulation); central retinal artery occlusion
Chest pain on exertion
Angina (stable: moderate exertion; unstable: minimal exertion)
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI
Dressler’s syndrome (autoimmune-mediated post MI fibrinous pericarditis, 1-12 wks after acute episode)
Child uses arms to stand up from squat
Gowers sign (Duchenne muscular dystrophy)
Child with fever develops red rash on face that spread to body
Slapped cheeks (erythema infectiosum/ fifth disease: parvovirus B19)
Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration
Huntington’s disease (AD CAG repeat expansion)
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps, myoglobinuria
McArdle’s disease (muscle glycogen phosphorylase deficiency)
cold intolerance
hypothyroidism
conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia
internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral=multiple sclerosis; unilateral=stroke)
continuous “machinery” heart murmur
PDA (close with indomethacin; open with misoprostol)
cutaneous/dermal edema d/t connective tissue deposition
myxedema (c/b hypothyroidism, Graves’ dz=pretibial)
dark purple skin/ mouth nodules
Kaposi’s sarcoma (usually AIDS pts; a/w HHV-8)
deep, labored breathing/hyperventilation
Kussmaul breathing (diabetic ketoacidosis)
dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
pellagra (niacin=vit B3 deficiency)
dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, polyneuropathy
wet beriberi (thiamine=vit b1 deficiency)
dog or cat bite resulting in infection
Pasteurella multocida (cellulitis at inoculation site)
dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis
Sjogren’s syndrome (autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)
dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome (may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)
elastic skin, hypermobility of joints
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (type III collagen defect)
enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node
Virchow’s node (abdominal metastasis)
erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells
Sezary syndrome (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) or mycosis fungoides
facial muscle spasm upon tapping
Chvostek’s sign (hypocalcemia)
fat, female, forty, fertile
Acute cholelithasis (bile duct blockage)
fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic tx for syphilis
Jarisch-Herxheimer rxn (rapid lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release)
fever, cough, conjunctivits, coryza, diffuse rash
measles (morbillivirus)
fever, night sweats, wt loss
B symptoms (lymphoma)
fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
Peyronie’s dz (connective tissue disorder)
gout, mental retardation, self-mutilating behavior in a boy
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X linked recessive)
green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea
Kayser-Fleisher rings (copper accumulation from Wilson’s disease)
hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (genetic benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; increased cancer risk)
hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic sx
Gaucher’s dz (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)
hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts
Alport syndrome (mutation in alpha chain of collagen IV)
hypercoagulability (leading to migrating DVTs and vasculitis)
Trousseau’s syndrome - adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lung; a/w migratory thrombophlebitis
hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility
Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala lesion)
hyperreflexia, hypertonia, positive Babinski
UMN damage
hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis
Conn’s syndrome
hyporefleixa, hypotonia, atrophy
LMN damage
hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia
Blue bloater - chronic bronchitis: hyperplasia of mucous cells
indurated ulcerated genital lesion
nonpainful = chancre (primary syphilis, Treponema pallidum)
painful, with exudate = chancroid (Haemophilius ducreyi)
infant with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, neurodegeneration
Niemann-Pick dz (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)
infant with hypoglycemia, failure to thrive and hepatosplenomegaly
Cori’s dz (debranching enzyme deficiency)
infant with microcephaly, rocker bottom feet, clenched hands and structural heart defect
Edwards’ syndrome (trisomy 18)
Keratin pearls on skin bx
squamous cell carcionoma
large rash with bulls eye appearance
erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme dz = borrelia)
lucid interval after traumatic brain injury
epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery rupture)
male child, recurrent infxns, no mature B cells
Bruton’s dz (X linked agammaglobulinemia)
mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time
Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation d/t lack of GpIIb/IIIa)
multiple colon polyps, osteomas/soft tissue tumors, impacted/supernumerary teeth
Gardner’s syndrome (subtype of FAP)
myopathy (infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), exercise intolerance
Pompe’s dz (lysosomal alpha 1,4 glucosidase def)
necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Wegener’s (cANCA) and Goodpasture’s syndromes (anti-Basement memb Abs)
neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth
Erb-Duchenne palsy (superior trunk C5-6 brachial plexus injury - waiter’s tip)
no lactation pospartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance
Sheehan’s syndrome (pituitary infarction)
nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia
multiple sclerosis
oscillating slow/ fast breathing
Cheyne Stokes respiration (central apnea in CHF or increased ICP)
painful blue fingers/toes, hemolytic anemia
cold agglutinin dz (autoimmune hemolytic anemia c/b Mycoplasma pneumoniae, infectious mononucleosis)
painful, raised red lesions on palms and soles
Osler’s node (infective endocarditis)
painless jaundice
cancer of the pancreatic head obstructing bile duct
palpable purpura on buttocks/legs, joint pain, abd pain (child)
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (IgA vasculitis affecting skin and kidneys)
pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors
MEN 1 (AD)
pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation
pink puffer = emphysema: centroacina (smoking), panacina (alpha1-antitrypsin def)
polyuria, acidosis, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances
Fanconi’s syndrome (proximal tubular reabsorption defect)
positive anterior drawer sign
ACL injury
ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
Horner’s syndrome (sympathetic chain lesion)
pupil accommodates but doesn’t react
Argyll Robertson pupil (neurosyphilis)
rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascending (following GI/URI)
Guillain Barre syndrome - autoimm acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
rash on palms and soles
Coxsackie A, secondary syphilis, Rocky mountain spotted fever
recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE
hyper-IgE syndrome (Job’s syndrome: neurotphil chemotaxis abnl)
red “currant jelly” sputum in alcoholic or diabetic pts
Klebsiella pneumoniae
red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola
Paget’s dz of breast (represents underlying neoplasm)
red urine in morning, fragile RBCs
paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
renal cell carcinoma (bilat), hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma
von-Hippel Lindau dz (dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation_
resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability
Parkinson’s dz) nigrostrital dopamine depletion_
retinal hemorrhages with pale centers
Roth’s spots (bacterial endocarditis_
severe jaundice in neonate
Crigler=Najjar syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)
severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness
McBurney’s sign (appendicitis)
short statue, increased incidence of tumors/leukemia, aplastic anemia
Fanconi’s anemia - genetic loss of DNA crosslink repair; often progresses to AML
single palm crease
Simian crease - Down syndrome
situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility
Kartagener’s syndrome (dynein arm defect affecting cilia_
skin hyperpigmentation
Addison’s dz (primary adrenocortical insufficiency causes increased ACTH and alpha-MSH production)
slow, progressive muscle weaknes sin boys
Becker’s muscular dystrophy (X linked missense mut in dystorphin; less severe than Duchenne’s)
small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers
Koplik spots (measles; rubeola virus)
smooth, flat, moist white lesions on genitals
condylomata lata (secondary syphilis)
splinter hemorrhages in fingernails
bacterial endocarditis
strawberry tongue
scarlet fever, Kawasaki dz, toxic shock syndrome
streak ovaries, congenital heart dz, horseshoe kidney, cystic hygroma at birth
Turner syndrome (45XO, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema)
sudden swollen/painful big toe join, tophi
Gout/ podagra (hyperuricemia)
swollen gums, mucous bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin
scurvy (vit C deficiency - can’t hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis)
swollen, hard, painful finger joints
osteoarthritis (osteophytes on PIP=Bouchard’s nodes; DIP=Heberden’s nodes)
systolic ejection murmur (crescendo/decrescendo)
aortic vavle stenosis
thyroid and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma
MEN 2A (AD ret mutation)
thyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis
MEN 2B (AD ret mutation)
toe extension/ fanning upon plantar scrape
Babinski sign (UMN lesion)
unilateral facial drooping involving forehead
Bell’s palsy (LMN CN VII palsy)
urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male
reactive arthritis a/w HLA-B27
vascular birthmark (port wine stain)
hemangioma (benign, but a/w Sturge-Weber syndrome)
vomiting blood following esophagogastric lacerations
Mallory-Weiss syndrome (alcoholic and bulimic pts)
waxy casts with very low urine flow
chronic end stage renal dz
WBC casts in urine
acute pyelonephritis
wt loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy
Whipple’s dz (tropheryma whippelii)
worst headache of my life
subarachnoid hemorrhage
anticentromere antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
antidesmoglein (epithelial) Abs
pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
anti-glomerular basement membrane Abs
Goodpastrue’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis_
antihistone Abs
drug-induced SLE (hydralazine, isoniazid, phenytoin, procainamide)
anti-IgG Abs
Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)
antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)
antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)
vasculitis (c-ANCA: Wegener’s; p-ANCA: microscopic polyangiitis, Churg Strauss syndrome)
antinuclear Abs (ANAs: anti-smith and anti-dsDNA)
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
antiplatelet Abs
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
anti-topoisomerase Abs
diffuse systemic scleroderma
anti-transgluatminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial Abs
Celiac dz
apple core lesion on abdominal x ray
colorectal cancer (usually left sided)
azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts
Auer rods (AML, espec the promyelocytic (M3) type)
bacitracin response
sensitive: strep pyogene (group A)
resistant: strep agalactiae (group B)
bamboo spine on x ray
ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA B27)
basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies (d/t splenectomy or non-fct’l spleen)
basophilic stippling of RBCs
lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
bloody tap on LP
subarachnoid hemorrhage
boot shaped heart on x ray
tetralogy of Fallot, RVH
branching gram-poistive rods with sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
bronchogenic apical lung tumor
pancoast tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cuase Horner’s syndroem_
brown tumor of bone
hemorrhage (hemosiderin) causes brown color of osteolytic cysts. Due to:
hyperparathyoridism or osteitis fibrosa cystica
cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Chagas’ dz (trypanosoma cruzi)
cellular crescents in Bowman’s capsule
rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
chocolate cyst of ovary
endometriosis - frequently involves both ovaries
circular grouping of dark tumor cells surroudnign pale neurofibrils
Homer Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)
colonies of mucoid pseudomonas in lungs
cystic fibrosis (AR mutation to CFTR resulting in fat soluble vit deficiency and mucous plugs)
decreased alpha-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Down syndrome or other chromosmoal abnl
degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)
depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson’s disease (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)
desquamated epithelium casts in sputum
Curschmann’s spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucous plugs)
disarrayed granulosa cels in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of ovary)
dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical caner)
enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
Owl’s eye appearance of CMV
enlarged htyroid cells with ground glass nuclei
orphan Annie eye nuclei (papillary carcinoma of thyroid)
eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory bodies (alocholic liver dz)
eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body (Parkinson’s dz)
eosinophilic globule in liver
councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)
eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells
rabies virus - lyssavirus
extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
senile plaques (alzheimer’s dz)
giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (owl’s eye)
Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkins lymphoma)
glomerulus like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells
Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)
hair on end (crew cut) appearance on x ray
beta thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (marrow expansion)
hCG elevated
choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo)
heart nodules (granulomatous)
Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)
heterophile antibodies
infectious mononucleosis (EBV)
hexagonal, double pointed, needle like crystals in bronchial secretions
bronchial asthma (Charcot-Leyden crystals: eosinophilic granules)
high level of D dimers
DVT, pulmonary embolism, DIC
hilar lymphadenopathy, peripheral granulomatous lesion in middle or lower lung lobes (can calcify_
ghon complex (primary TB: mycobacterium bacilli)
honeycomb lung on x ray
interstitial fibrosis
hypersegmented neutrophils
megaloblastic anemia (B12 deficiency: neurologic sx; folate deficiency: no neurologic sx)
hypochromic, microcytic anemia
iron deficiency anemia, lead poisoning, thalassemia (HbF sometimes present)
increased alpha fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/ maternal serum
dating error, anencephaly, spina bifida 9neural tube defects)
increased uric acid levels
Gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, tumor lysis syndrome, loop and thiazide diuretics
intranuclear eosinophilic droplet like bodies
Cowdry type A bodies (HSV, CMV)
iron containing nodules in alveolar septum
ferruginous bodies (asbestosis: increased chance of mesothelioma)
large lysosomal vesicles in phagocytes, immuonodeficiency
Chediak-Higashi dz (congenital failure of phagolysosome formation)
lead pipe appearance of colon on x ray
ulcerative colitis (loss of haustra)
linear appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Goodpasture’s syndrome
low serum ceruloplasmin
Wilson’s dz (hepatolenticular degeneration)