RAPID REVIEW- Classic Labs/ Findings Flashcards
Anticentromere antibodies
Sclaroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
Anti- glomerular basement membrane antibodies
Goodpasture syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)Anti
Antihistone antibodies
Drug induced SLE (hydralazine, INH, phenytoin, procainamide)
Anti IgG antibodies
Rheumatoid arhtritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere defomity)
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)
1º bilialy cirrhosis (female, cholestasism portal hypertension)
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)
Microscopic polyangiitis and Churg Strauss syndrome (MPO-ANCA/p-ANCA); granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegner; PR3- ANCA/cANCA)
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: anti Smith and 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 + granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts
Auer rods (AML, especially the promyelocytic [M3] type)
Bacitracin response
Sensitive: Streptococcues pyogenes (group A); resistant: Streptococcus agalactiae (group B)
“Bamboo spine” on x-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA- B27)
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
Basophilic stippling od RBCs
Lead posioning or sideroblastic anemia
Bloody tap on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
“Boot-shaped” heart on x-ray
Tetralogy of fallot, RVH
Branching gram positive rods with sulfur granules
Actinomyces israeli
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 brwon color)
Cardiomegaly with apycal 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 (autosomal recessive mutation in CFTR gene → fat soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)
↓ AFP in amniotic fluid/maternal serum
Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormality
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis (3º syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson disease (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)
Desquameted epithelium casts in sputum
Curshmann spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucous plugs)
Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumorof the ovary)
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
“Owl eye” apperance of CMV
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei
“Orphan Annie” eyes nuclei (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory body (alcoholic liver)
Eosinohilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body (Parkinson disease)
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar nerve cells
Negri bodies of rabies
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)
Giant B cells with boilbed nuclei with prominent inclusions (owl’s eye)
Reed Sternberg cells (Hodgkin lymphoma)
Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessek in germ cells
Schiller Duval bodies (yolk salc tumor)