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Rapid Review - Labs Flashcards

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Inc AFP in amniotic fluid

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Dating error

Anencephaly or spina bifida (open tube leaks AFP)

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Anti-centromere Antibodies

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CREST (scleroderma)

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Anti-glomerular BM Antibodies

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Goodpasture (glomerular nephritis and hemoptysis)

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Anti-histone antibodies

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Drug-induced lupus (hydralazine, isoniazid, entanercept, procainamide, phenytoin)

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AMAs

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Primary biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)

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p-ANCA

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Microscopic polyangitis, Churgg-Straus (Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis) AND primary sclerosing cholangitis

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c-ANCA

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granulomatosis w/ polyangitis (Wegner’s)

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Anti-platelet antibodies

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Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura

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Anti-topoisomerase antibodies

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Diffuse systemics scleroderma

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Anti-endomysial antibodies

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Celiac

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Apple core lesion on barium enema

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Colorectal cancer (usually L sided)

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Atypical Lymphocytes on smear

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EBV

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Azurophilic peroxidase + granular inclusions in granulocytes and myeloblasts

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AML esp APL (M3 - promyelocytes)

“auer rods”

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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs

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Howell-Jolly bodies (splenectomy or non-functioning spleen)

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Bloody or yellow tap on lumbar puncture

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Basophilic stippling

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Lead poisoning

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Boot shaped heart on Xray

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Tetralogy of Fallot (due to RVH)

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Branching gram + rods w/ sulfur granules

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Actinomyces

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Bronchogenic apical lung tumor on imaging

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Pancoast (can compress cervical symp chain and cause Horner)

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“Brown” tumor or bone

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

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Cardiomegaly w/ apical atrophy

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Chagas disease

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Chocolate cyst of ovary

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Endometriosis

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Circular grouping of dark tumor cells around pale neurofibrils

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Homer-Wright rosettes

Neuroblastoma, medullablastoma

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Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs

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CF

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Dec AFP in amniotic fluid

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DS

Other chromosomal abnormalities

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Degeneration of dorsal columns

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Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)

Subacute combined degeneration = dorsal columns + lateral corticospinal tract + spinocerebellar)

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Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum

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Curshmann sppiral in bronchial asthma

Can result in whorled mucus plugs

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Disarrayed granulosa cells arranged around collections of eosinophilic material

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Call - Exner bodies of granulosa cell ovarian tumors

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29
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Dysplastic squamous cervical cells w/ raisinoid nuclei and hyperchromasia

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Koilocytes of HPV –> cervical cancer

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Electrical aternans

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Alternating amp of EKG (pericardial tamponade)

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Enlarged cells w/ intranuclear inclusion bodies

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CMV - owl eyes

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Enlarged thyroid cells w/ ground glass nuclei and central clearing

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“Orphan Annie” of papillary thyroid cancer

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Eosinophilic cytoplasm inclusion in liver cells

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Mallory body (alcoholic liver disease)

Think Amy Winehouse sang “Mallory”

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in neuron

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Lewy Body (Parkinson’s and Lewy Body Dementia)

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Eosinophilic globular in liver

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Councilman bodies (viral hepatitis, yellow fever)

Represents hepatocytes undergoing apoptosis

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Eosinophilic inclusion in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerbellar neurons

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Negri bodies of Rabies

37
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Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter

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Senile plaques (alpha - beta amyloid in AZ)

38
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Giant B cells w/ bi-lobed nuclei and prominent inclusions

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Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

39
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Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells

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Yolk sac tumor - Schiller-Duval body

40
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Hair on end or crew cut appearance on Xray

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Beta-thalassemia or sickle cell - marrow expansion

41
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Elevated hCG

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pregnancy

Choriocarcinoma

Hydatiform mole

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Heart nodules (granulomatous)

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Aschoff bodies (rheumatic fever)

43
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Heterophile antibodies

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EBV

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

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Charcot-Leydon crystals w/ eosinophilic granules

Asthma

45
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High D Dimer

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PE

DVT

DIC

46
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Hilar lymphadenopathy, peripheral granulomatous lesion in middle or lower lungs that can calcify

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Ghon complex of Tb

47
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Honeycomb lung on Xray or CT

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Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis

48
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Hypercoaguability and migrating DVTs

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Trousseau syndrome (adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lung)

49
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Hypersegmented neutrophils

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Megaloblastic anemia

50
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Hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis

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Primary hyperaldosteronism (Conn Syndrome)

51
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Intranuclear eosinophilic droplet-like bodies

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Cowdry type A (HSV or VZV)

52
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Iron-containing nodules in alveolar septum

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Ferruginous bodies of asbestosis

Inc risk lung cancer&raquo_space; mesothelioma

53
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Keratin pearls on skin biopsy

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Squamous cell carcinoma

54
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Large granules in phagocytes and immunodeficiency

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Chediak-Higashi disease (congenital failure of phagolysosome fusion)

55
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Low serum ceruplasmin

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Wilson Disease (hepatolenticular degeneration - liver and BG)

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Lumpy bumpy glomeruli on IF

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PSGN (deposition of IgG, IgM and C3)

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Lytic (punched out) bone lesions on Xray

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Mult myeloma

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Mammary gland blue-domed cyst

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Fibrocystic change of breast

59
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Monoclonal Antibody Spike

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Multiple Myeloma (CRAB -hypercalcemia, renal, anemia, bone

MGUS (consequence of aging; no end organ damage)

Waldenstrom macroglobinemia (just IgM in M spike)

Amyloidosis

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Mucin filled cell w/ peripheral nucleus

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Signet ring of gastric carcinoma

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Narrowing of bowel lumen on barium Xray

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string sign in Chron’s

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Necrotizing vasculitis in lungs and necrotizing glomerulanephritis

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Wegener’s w/ c-ANCA

Goodpasture’s (anti BM)

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Nodular hyaline deposits in glomeruli

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Kimmelstiel Wilson nodules in diabetics

64
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Nutmeg liver

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Chronic passive congestion of liver due to right heart failure or Budd Chiari

65
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Onion skin periosteal reaction

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Ewing sarcoma (small blue cell tumor)

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Protein aggregates in neurons from hyper-phosphorylation of tau protein

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Neurofibrillary tangles of AZ or Pick’s bodies in Pick disease (frontal lobes)

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Psammoma Bodies

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P - papillary thyroid cancer

S - serous carcinoma of ovary or endometrium

M - meningioma

M- mesothelioma

68
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Pseudopallisading tumor cells on brain biopsy

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Glioblastoma multiforme

69
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Raised periosteum (creates Codman triangle)

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Aggressive bone lesions like Ewing, osteosarcoma, osteomyelitis)

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Rectangular, crystal-like, cytoplasmic inclusions in Leydig cells

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Reinke crystals

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Recurrent infections, eczema, thrombocytopenia

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Wiskott - Aldrich

72
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Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells w/ scattered, pale, tingible body-laden macrophages

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Starry sky histology

Burkitt lymphoma t(8;14) c-MYC

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Rib notching

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Coarctation of aorta

74
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Silverstaining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neuron

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Pick bodies

75
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Soap bubble lesion on Xray of tibia or femur

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Giant cell tumor of bone (generally benign)

76
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Stacks of RBCs

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Rouleaux formation from high ESR in multiple myeloma

77
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Steeple Sign

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Parainfluenza / croup

78
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Bacteria-covered vaginal epithelial cells

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Clue cells in Gardnerella

79
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Tennis racket shaped cytoplasmic organelles in Langerhans cells seen on EM

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Birbeck granules of LH cell histiocytosis

80
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Thrombi made of white and red layers

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Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus w/ layers of platelets and RBCs)

81
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Thumb sign on lateral neck Xray

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Epiglossitis (H flu)

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Tram track capillary loops of glomerular BM on light microscopy

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Membranoproliferative (v. subepithelial deposits and spikes on BM in just membranous)

83
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Thyroid-like appearance of kidney

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Chronic pylonephritis

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TG accumulation in liver cell vacuoles

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Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)

85
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Inc uric acid levels

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Gout

Lesch-Nyhan

Tumor lysis syndrome

Thiazide or loop diuretics

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Waxy casts and low urine flow

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End stage renal disease

87
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Smudged WBCs

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CLL (almost always B cell)

88
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Wire loop glomerular capillaries

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SLE diffuse proliferative GN

89
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Yellowish CSF

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Xanthochromia due to subarachnoid hemorrhage

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