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Lab/Diagnostic Finding

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Diagnosis/Disease

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Anticentromere antibodies

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Scleroderma (CREST)

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Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies

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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)

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Anti-glomeular basement membrane antibodies

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Goodpasture’s syndrome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptys???)

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Antihistone antibodies

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Drug-induced SLE (hydralazine, isoniazid , phenytoin, procainamide)

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Anti-IgG antibodies

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Rheumtoid arthritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)

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Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs)

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Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal hypertension)

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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)

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Vaculitis (c-ANCA: granulomatosis with polyangiitis [Wegener’s]; p-ANCA: microscopic polyangiitis, Churg- Strauss syndrome)

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Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs: anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA)

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SLE (type III hypersensitivity)

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Antiplatelet antibodies

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Idopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

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Anti-topoisomerase antibodies

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Diffuse systemic scleroderma

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Anti-transglutaminase/anti-gliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies

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Celic disease (diarrhea, distension, weight loss)

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“Apple core” lesion on abdominal x-ray

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Colorectal cancer (usually left sided)

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Azurophilic peroxidase-positive granular inclusions in granulocytes and myleoblasts

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Auer rods (acute myelogenous leukemia, especially the promyelocytic [M3] type)

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Bacitracin response

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Senstive: Streptococcus pyogenes (group A); resistant: Streptococcucs agalactiae (group B)

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“Bamboo spine” on x-ray

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Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammtory arthritis: HLA-B27)

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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs

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Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)

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Basophilic stippling of RBCs

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Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia

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Bloody tap on LP

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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“Boot-shaped” heart on x-ray

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Tetrology of Fallot, RVH

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Branching gram-positive rods with sulfur granules

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Actinomyces israelii

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Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging

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Pancoast tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause Horner’s syndrome)

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“Brown” tumor

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Hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (deposited hemosiderin from hemorrhage gives brown color)

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Cadiomegaly witg apical atrophy

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Chagas’ disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)

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Cellular crescents in Bowman’s capsule

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Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis

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“Chocolate cyst”of ovary

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Endometriosis (frequently involves both ovaries)

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Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibirls

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Homer-Wright rosettes (neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, retinoblastoma)

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Colonies of mucoid Psuedomonas in lungs

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Cystic fibrosis (autosomal-recessive mutation in CFTR resulting in fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and mucous plugs)

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Decreased alpha-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum

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Down syndrome or other chromosomal abnormality

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Degeneration of dorsal column nerves

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Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns and lateral corticospinal tracts affected)

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Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

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Parkinson’s disease (basal ganglia disorder; rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia

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Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum

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Curschmann’s spirals (bronchial asthma; can result in whorled mucous plugs)

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Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid

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Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary)

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Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes (HPV: predisposes to cervical cancer)

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Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies

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“Owl’s eye” appearance of CMV

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Enlarged thyroid cells with ground- glass nuclei

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“Orphan Annie’s eyes nuclei (pappillary carcinoma of the thyroid)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell

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Mallory bodies (alcoholic liver disease)

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell

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Lewy body (Parkinson’s disease)

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Eosinophilic globule in liver

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Concilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever

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Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells

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Negri bodies of rabies (Lyssavirus)

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Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain

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Senile plaques (Alzheimer’s disease)

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Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (“owl’s eye”)

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Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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Glomerulus-like structure surronding vessel in germ cells

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Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)

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“Hair on end” (crew-cut) appearance on x-ray

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Beta-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (marrow expansion)

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hCG elevated

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Choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo)

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Heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)

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Heterophile antibodies

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Infectious mononucleosis (EBV)

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Hexagonal, double-pointed needle-like crystals in bronchial secretions

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Bronchial asthma (Charcot-Leyden crystals: eosinophilic granules

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High level of D-dimers (3)

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DVT, pulmonary embolism, DIC

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Hilar lymphadenopathy, peripheral granlomatous lesion in middle or lower lung lobes (can calcify)

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Ghon complex (Primary TB: Mycobacterium bacilli)

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“Honeycomb lung” on x-ray or CT

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Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis

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Hypercoagubility (leading to migrating DVTs an vasculitis)

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Trousseau’s syndrome (adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lung

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Hypersegmented neurophils

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Megloblasitic anemia (B12 deficiency: neurologic symptoms; folate deficiency: no neurologic symptoms)

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Hyperstension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis

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Conn’s syndrome

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Hypochromic, microcytic anemia (3)

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Iron deficiency anemia, lead poisoning, thalassemia (fetal hemoglobin sometimes present)

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Increased alpha-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid/maternal serum (3)

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Dating error, anencephaly, spina bifida (neural tube defect)

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Increased uric acid levels (5)

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Gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, tumor lysis syndrome, loop and thiazide diuretics

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Intranuclear eosinophilic droplet-like bodies

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Cowdry type A bodies (HSV or CMV)

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Iron-containing nodules in alveolar septum

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Ferruginous bodies (abestosis: Increased chance of mesothelioma)

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Keratin pearls on a skin biopsy

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Squamous cell carcinoma

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Large lysosomal vesicles in phagocytes, immunodeficiency

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Chediak-Higashi disease (congenital failure of phagolysosome formation

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“Lead pipe” appearance of colon on barium enema x-ray

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Ulcerative colitis (loss of haustra)

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Linear appeareance of IgG deposition on glomerular basement membrane

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Goodpasture’s syndrome

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Low serum ceruloplasmin

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Wilson’s disease (hepatolenticular degeneration)

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“Lumpy bumpy” appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence

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Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (immune complex deposition of IgG and C3b)

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Lytic (“hole punched”) bone leisons on x-ray

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Multiple myeloma

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Mammary gland (“blue domed”) cyst

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Fibrocystic change of breast

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Monoconol antibody spike (4)

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(1) Multiple myeloma (usually IgG or IgA); (2) Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS; (3) normal conseqence of aging); Waldenstrom’s (M protein = IgM) macrogloubulinemia; (4) Primary amyloidosis

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Mucin-filled cell with peripheral nucleus

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Signet ring (gastric carcinoma)

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Narrowing of bowel lumen on barium x-ray

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“String sign” (Crohn’s disease)

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Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs and necrotizing glomerulonephritis

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Ganulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s; c-ANCA positive) and Goodpasture’s sndrome (anti-basement membrane anibodies)

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Needle-shaped, negatvely birefringent crystals

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Gout (monosodium urate crystals)

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Nodular hyaline deposits in glomeruli

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Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules (diabetic nephropathy)

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Novobiocin response

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Sensitive: Staphylococcus epidermidis; resistant: Staphylococcus saprophyticus

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“Nutmeg” appearance

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Chronic passive congestion of liver due to right heart failure

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“Onion skin” periosteal reaction

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Ewing’s sarcoma (malignant round-cell tumor)

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Optochin response

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Sensitive: Streptococcus pneumoniae; resistant: Viridans streptococcus

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Periosteum raised from bone, creating triangular area

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Codman’s triangle on x-ray (osteosarcoma, Ewing’s sarcoma, pyogenic osteomyelitis)

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Podocyte fusion or “effacement” on electron microscopy

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Minimal change disease (child with nephrotic syndrome)

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Polished, “ivory like” appearance of bone at cartilage erosion

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Eburnation (osteoarthritis resulting in bony sclerosis)

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Protein aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of protein tau

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Neurofibillary tangles (Alzheimer’s disease) and Pick’s bodies (Pic’ks disease)

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Psammoma bodies (4)

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Meningiomas, papillary thyroid carcinoma, mesothelioma, papillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium and ovary

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Psuedopalisadng tumor cells on brain biopsy

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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RBC casts in urine

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Acute glomerulonephritis

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Rectangular, crystal-like cytoplsamic inclusions in Leydig cells

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Reinke crystals (Leydig cell tumor)

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Renal epithelial casts in urine

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Acute toxic/viral nephrosis

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Rhomboid crystals, positively birefringent

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Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals)

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Rib notching

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Coartation of the aorta

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Ring-enhancing brain lesion in AIDS (2)

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Taxoplasma gondii, CNS lymphoma

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Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells with scattered pale, tingible body-laden macrophages (“starry sky” histology)

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Burkitt’s lymphoma (t[8:14] c-myc activation, activation, associated with EBV; “black sky” made up of malignant cells)

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Silver-staining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neurons

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Pick bodies (Pick’s disease: progreeive dmentia changes in personality)

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“Soap bubble” in femur or tibia on x-ray

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Giant cell tumor of bone (generally benign)

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“Spikes” on basement membrane, “dome like” subepithelial

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Membranous glomerulonephritis( may progress to nephrotic syndrome)

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Stacks of RBCs

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Rouleaux formation (high ESR, multiple myeloma)

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Stippled vaginal epithelial cells

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“Clue cells” (Gardnerella vaginalis)

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“Tennis racket” shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in Langerhans cells

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Birbeck granules (Langerhans cell histiocytosis or histiocytosis X: eosinophilic granuloma)

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Thrombi made of white/red layers

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Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus, layers of platelets/RBCs)

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“Thumb sign” on lateral x-ray

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Epiglottitis (Haemophilus influenzae)

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Thyroid-like appearance of kidney

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Chronic bacterial pyelonephritis

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Tram-track appearance of capillary loops ogf glomerular basement membranes on light microscopy

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

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Triglyceride accumulation in liver cell vacuoles

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Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome)

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“Waxy” casts with very low urine flow

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Chronic end-stage renal disease

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WBC casts in urine

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Acute pyelonephritis

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WBCs that look “smudged”

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CLL (almost always B cell)

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“Wire loop” glomerular capillary appearance on light microscopy

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Lupus nephropathy

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Yellowish CSF

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Xanthochromia (e.g. due to subarachnoid hemorrhage)

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