Rapid Review Associations Flashcards
Actinic (solar) keratosis (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Cushing ulcer (? intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric H+ secretion)
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch (MCM cause/important assoc.)
3° syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction
Aortic aneurysm, thoracic (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Aortic dissection (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Hypertension
Atrophy of the mammillary bodies (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)
Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer (MCM cause/important assoc.)
H. pylori
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
S. pneumoniae
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Group B streptococcus/E.coli (newborns), S. pneumoniae/N. meningitidis (kids/teens)
Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)
Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)
Brain tumor (adults) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Supratentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma
Brain tumor (kids) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
Breast cancer (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Invasive ductal carcinoma
Breast mass (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
Breast tumor (benign) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Fibroadenoma
Cardiac 1° tumor (kids) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
Cardiac manifestation of lupus (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)
Cardiac tumor (adults) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Metastasis, myxoma (90% in left atrium; “ball and valve”)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Chiari II malformation
Chronic arrhythmia (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)
Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina (MCM cause/important assoc.)
DES exposure in utero
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension (MCM cause/important assoc.)
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Congenital cardiac anomaly (MCM cause/important assoc.)
VSD
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
Constrictive pericarditis (MCM cause/important assoc.)
TB (developing world); idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)
Coronary artery involved in thrombosis (MCM cause/important assoc.)
LAD > RCA > circumflex
Cretinism (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism
Cushing syndrome (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Iatrogenic (from corticosteroid therapy), Adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol) , ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease) Paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
Cyanosis (early; less common) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus
Cyanosis (late; more common) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
VSD, ASD, PDA
Death in CML (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Blast crisis
Death in SLE (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Lupus nephropathy
Dementia (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Alzheimer disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
Demyelinating disease in young women (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Multiple sclerosis
DIC (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery
Dietary deficit (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Iron
Diverticulum in pharynx (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
Ejection click (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Aortic stenosis
Esophageal cancer (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (U.S.)
Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
S. aureus, B. cereus
Glomerulonephritis (adults) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
Gynecologic malignancy (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in U.S.); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
Heart murmur, congenital (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Mitral valve prolapse
Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
Helminth infection (U.S.) (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides
Hematoma—epidural (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)
Hematoma—subdural (MCM cause/important assoc.)
Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)