Rapid Review - Key Associations (4)

Question 1

Osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease

Answer 1

Salmonella

Question 2

Osteomyelitis with IV drug use

Answer 2

Pseudomonas, S. aureus

Question 3

Ovarian metastasis from gastric carcinoma or breast cancer

Answer 3

Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet-ring cells)

Question 4

Ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral)

Answer 4

Serous cystadenoma

Question 5

Ovarian tumor (malignant)

Answer 5

Serous cystadenocarcinoma

Question 6

Pancreatitis (acute)

Answer 6

Gallstones, alcohol

Question 7

Pancreatitis (chronic)

Answer 7

Alcohol (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)

Question 8

Patient with ALL /CLL /AML /CML

Answer 8

ALL: child, CLL: adult > 60, AML: adult ∼ 65, CML: adult 30–60

Question 9

Pelvic inflammatory disease

Answer 9

Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Question 10

Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) (bcr-abl)

Answer 10

CML (may sometimes be associated with ALL/AML)

Question 11

Pituitary tumor

Answer 11

Prolactinoma, somatotropic “acidophilic” adenoma

Question 12

1° amenorrhea

Answer 12

Turner syndrome (45,XO)

Question 13

1° bone tumor (adults)

Answer 13

Multiple myeloma

Question 14

1° hyperaldosteronism

Answer 14

Adenoma of adrenal cortex

Question 15

1° hyperparathyroidism

Answer 15

Adenomas, hyperplasia, carcinoma

Question 16

1° liver cancer

Answer 16

Hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, a1-antitrypsin deficiency)

Question 17

Pulmonary hypertension

Answer 17

COPD

Question 18

Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities

Answer 18

Buerger disease (strongly associated with tobacco)

Question 19

Renal tumor

Answer 19

Renal cell carcinoma: associated with von Hippel-Lindau and cigarette smoking; paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTH, ACTH)

Question 20

Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause

Answer 20

Cor pulmonale

Question 21

S3 (protodiastolic gallop)

Answer 21

Increased ventricular filling (left-to-right shunt, mitral regurgitation, LV failure [CHF])

Question 22

S4 (presystolic gallop)

Answer 22

Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)

Question 23

2° hyperparathyroidism

Answer 23

Hypocalcemia of chronic kidney disease

Question 24

Sexually transmitted disease

Answer 24

Chlamydia (usually coinfected with gonorrhea)

Question 25

SIADH

Answer 25

Small cell carcinoma of the lung

Question 26

Site of diverticula

Answer 26

Sigmoid colon

Question 27

Sites of atherosclerosis

Answer 27

Abdominal aorta > coronary artery > popliteal artery > carotid artery

Question 28

Stomach cancer

Answer 28

Adenocarcinoma

Question 29

Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels

Answer 29

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)

Question 30

t(14;18)

Answer 30

Follicular lymphomas (bcl-2 activation)