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What do yo use for acne and hirsutism in PCOS?

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OCP

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What are exemestane and anastrozole?

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Aromatase inhibitors

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Diagnosis? Rupture of mucous producing tumor into peritoneal cavity

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Pseudomyxoma peritoneii (jelly belly) MC from ovary or appendix

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What do sertoli cells do?

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Spermatogensis, inhibin & MIF production, increase SHBG to maintain local levels of testosterone

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What do leydig cells do?

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Testosterone production

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What is the best marker for menopause?

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FSH

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How long are sperm viable for after vasectomy?

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One month

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What do the paramesonephric ducts make?

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Uterus, fallopian tube, cervix, and upper part of vagina

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Twins of different sexes are di or monozygotic?

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Dizygotic and probably dichorionic and diamniontic

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How do you differentiate psychogenic from other causes of impotence?

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Psychogenic is sudden and will persist while others are more intermittent and slowly become persistent. Also night time erections in psychogenic

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Diagnosis? Primary amenorrhea in developed girl

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Imperforate hymen –> can get blood backed up in vagina (distension, back pain) aka hematocolpos

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What do you see clenched hands with overlapping fingers?

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Edwards (Trisomy 18)

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What is congenital torticollis?

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Head tilted to one side from trauma during birth or malposition in utero

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What is messed up in inflammatory carcinoma of the breast?

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Obstruction of lymphatic ducts

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What are your hormone levels in klinefelters?

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Increased FSH and LH (from lack of feedback inhibition since testosterone levels are low), high estrogen

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What do fertility enhancing drugs increase the risk for?

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Ovarian cancer

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What is caudal regression syndrome?

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Sacral agenesis due to maternal diabetes

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What congenital abnormality do you see with maternal diabetes?

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Caudal regression syndrome?

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What do OCPs increase risk for?

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Thrombotic events (MI, stroke)

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BPH is often present with what?

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Prostate cancer

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What are Hox genes?

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transcription regulators

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What pw/ dyspareunia, dyschezia, dysmenorrhea, infertility and normal sized uterus?

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Endometriosis

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What causes skin retractions in breast cancer?

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Invasion of suspensory cooper’s ligament

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What causes nipple dimpling in breast cancer?

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Tumor invading central region of breast

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25
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Where does fluid accumulate in hydrocele?

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Tunica vaginalis

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How do OCPs prevent pregnancy?

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Feedback inhibition to lower serum gonadotropins

Also prevent sperm penetration into uterus and impair embryo implantation

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27
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What happens in cyrptorchidism?

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Semniferous tubules atrophy from temperature induced damage. Inhibin production and because sertoli cells damaged sperm count decreases. Leydig cells normal so secondary sex characteristics normal.

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What is choriocarcinoma?

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Can develop during or after pregnancy in baby or mom. Spreads hematogenously to lungs. Syntio and cytotrophoblast prolif with no chorionic villi. Inc bHCG. Increased frequency of theca-lutein cysts
Can cause gynecomastia in males
Hyperthyroidism (hcG resembles TSH)

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What does hPL do?

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Increases insulin resistance , stimulates proteolysis and lipolysis, inhibits gluconeogenesis. The increase glucose is for baby and protein/FA for mom. Too much can lead to diabetes. Maternal insulin resistance is due to increase hPL, placental GH, estrogen, progesterone, GC

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When is an embryo most susceptible to teratogens?

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Weeks 3-8

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What do pia and arachnoid derive from?

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Neural crest

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32
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What do retina, optic nerve derive from?

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Neuroectoderm

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33
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What does the pineal derive from?

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Neuroectoderm

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34
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Where does the lens of the eye derive from?

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Surface ectoderm

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Where do the olfactory epithelium and organs of ear derive from?

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Surface ectoerm

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36
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Where does notochord derive from?

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Mesodermal

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What are VACTERL defects?

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Mesodermal defects: vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophgeal fistula, renal, limb defects

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What drug causes limb defects (“flipper limbs”) in babies?

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Thalidomide

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What congenital defects does maternal diabetes cause?

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Anencephaly, caudal regression syndrome, transposition of great arteries, sirenomelia (missing limb)

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What is the MC monozygotic twin?

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One placenta, two amnion (monochorionic, diamniotic), 4-8 days (after morula before blastocyst)

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41
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What secretes hCG?

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Synctiotrophobllast (outer layer of chorionic villi)

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What is the decidua basalis?

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The endometrium during pregnancy. It is the maternal side of the placenta

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What are the aortic arch derivatives?

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1 - Maxillary
2- Stapedial, hyoid
3 - Common carotid, proximal part of internal carotid
4 - Aortic arch, right subclavian
6 - PDA, pulmonary arteries
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44
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What are the branchial cleft derivatives?

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1 - external auditory meatus

Rest obliterate

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45
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What does a persistent cervical sinus present as?

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Branchial cleft cyst in lateral neck

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What is the 1st branchial arch?

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Mandible, malleus, mandibular ligament
Muscles of mastication, mylohyoid
CN V2 and V3

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What is 2nd branchial arch?

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Stapes, styloid, stylohyoid ligament
Stapes, stylohyoid, platysma
CN VII

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What is 3rd branchial arch?

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Stylopharyngeus

CN IX

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What is 4th-6th branchial arch?

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4th- Superior laryngeal, cricothyroid, pharyngeal constrictors
6th - Recurrent laryngeal, laryngeal muscles
Thyroid and cricoid cartilage

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What do you see mandibular hypoplasia and facial abnormalities with?

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Treacher Collins Syndrome (1st arch neural crest fails to migrate)

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What tissue are the branchial arches from?

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Mesoderm (muscles, arteries) and neural crest (bone, cartilage)

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What do you see a fistula between tonsillar area and lateral neck?

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Congenital pharyngocutaneous fistula (2nd pharyngeal arch)

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What is the 1st branchial pouch?

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Ear (eustachian tube, middle ear, mastoid air cells etc)

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What is the 2nd branchial pouch?

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Tonsils

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What is the 3rd branchial pouch?

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Inferior parathyroid and thymus

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56
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What happens in cleft lip?

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Maxillary and nasal prominences don’t fuse

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57
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What happens in cleft palate?

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Palatine processes don’t fuse with each other or with nasal septum

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What is bicornuate uterus?

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Paremesonephric ducts don’t fuse completely causing two uteruses and two vagina

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What is the prostate derived from?

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Urogenital sinus

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What does the genital tubercle make?

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Corpus cavernosum, glans penis (male)

Vestibular bulbs, glans clitoris (female)

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What is gubernaculum in the female?

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Round ligament and ovarian ligament

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What nerve is responsible for erection?

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Pelvic nerve, pudendal nerve

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What nerve is responsible for emission?

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Hypogastric nerve

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What nerve is responsible for ejaculation?

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Pudendal nerve

65
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What cells are temperature sensitive?

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Sertoli cells (decreased inhibin and sperm production)

Remember leydig are not sensitive to temperature

66
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Where is estriol?

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Placenta. It is an indicator of fetal well being

67
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Why are pregnant women more likely to get gallstones?

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Estrogen induces cholesterol hypersecretion

Progesterone causes GB hypomotility

68
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What phase are you in if you see glands that secrete glycogen and spiral arteries in the endometrium?

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What is Mittelschmerz?

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Midcycle ovulatory pain due to peritoneal irritation from follicular sweling/rupture, fallopian tube contraction). Mimcs appendicits

70
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What is seen with menopause?

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Hot flashes, sleep disturbances, osteporosis, vaginal atrophu, coronary artery diease

71
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What is spermiogenesis?

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Maturation of spermatid (loss of cytoplasmic contents, gain acrosomal cap) into spermatozoan

72
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What is true hermaphroditism?

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Ovotesticular with ambiguous genitalia. Both ovaries and testes

73
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What do hormone levels look like for androgen insensitivity?

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Increased testosterone, estrogen and LH (estrogen increases because LH trying to stimulate testosterone)

74
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What is maternal death due to in eclampsia?

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Stroke causing intracranial hemorrhage or ARDS

75
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Diagnosis: hemolysis, increased AST and ALT, thrombocytopenia?

76
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What are placenta accreta, increta, percereta?

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Accreta: attaches to myometrium
Increta: into myometrium
Percreta: through the myometrium into uterine serosa

77
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What presents with pruritus, vaginal pain, dyspareunia, atrophic white papules/macule lesions?

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Lichen Sclerosus

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Which has increased risk for malignancy: lichen sclerosus or chornicus?

79
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What do you treat for an early ectopic pregnancy (

80
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What does E6 do?

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Inhibit p53

81
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What does E7 do?

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Inhibit Rb

82
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What happens if SCC of cervix has lateral invasion?

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Can block ureters and can cause renal failure

83
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What presents with leukocytosis, foul discharge, and uterine tenderness?

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Endometritis

84
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What causes endometritis?

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Retained products of conception, IUD, or previous PID that promotes infection (MC B. fragilis)

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What presents with cyclic pelvic pain, bleeding, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, dyschezia, infertility and normal sized uterus?

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Endometriosis

86
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What presents with dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia and enlarged soft uterus?

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Adenomyosis

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What causes adenomyosis?

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Hyperplasia of basalis layer

88
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What are you at risk for if you have too much estrogen exposure without progesterone?

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Endometrial hyperplasia and possibly carcinoma

89
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Who is more likely to get leiomyoma?

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BLACKS and 20-40yo

90
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What is leiomyoma stimulated by?

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Estrogen (increases with pregnancy and decreases with menopause)

91
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What presents with enlarged uterus or uterine mass with severe bleeding?

92
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What tumor has greatest incidence and worst prognosis?

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Incidence: Endometrial

Worst prognosis: Ovarian

93
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What are the levels of hormones in PCOS?

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REALLY increased LH
Increased FSH, testosterone, estrogen (from test. aromatization)
Increased insulin
Decreased progesterone

94
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What happens with PCOS?

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Insulin and testosterone decrease SHBG –> Inc free testosterone
LH increases due to pituitary/hypothalamus dysfunction

95
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What is the treatment for PCOS?

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Weight, hirsutism, acne: OCP, antiandorgen
Infertility: clomiphene citrate
Insulin resistance: metformin (dec insulin so dec testosterone and allows LH surge)
Endometrial protection: cyclic progesterone (antagonizes endometrial proliferation)

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What is a follicular cyst?

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Distention of unruptured follicle. Aw/ hyperestrogenism and endometrial hyperplasia. MC ovarian mass in young women

97
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What is a theca lutein cyst?

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Bialteral/multiple often. Due to gonadotropin stimulation. Aw/ choriocarcinoma and moles.

98
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What is a dermoid cyst (aka mature cystic teratoma)?

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Mature germ cell teratoma with fat, hair, teeth, bits of bone and cartilage. Can have thyroid tissue and cause hyperthyroid (struma ovarii)
Common in 20-30yo women

Malignant in males (inc hCG) not in females

99
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What origin are majority of malignant ovarian neoplasms?

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Epithelial

100
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Which benign neoplasm is lined with fallopian like epithelium?

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Serous cystadenoma

101
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What is struma ovarii?

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Functional thyroid tissue inside a germ cell tumor (cystic teratoma aka dermoid cyst)

102
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Looks like bladder. What looks yellow-tan, encapsulated and had coffee bean nuclei on H & E?

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Brenner tumor

103
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What is Meigs syndrome?

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Ovarian fibroma, ascites, and hydrothorax

104
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What has bundles of spindle shaped fibroblasts?

105
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What is a thecoma?

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Benign. May produce estrogen. Presents as abnormal uterine bleeding in postmenopausal women.

106
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What is an immature teratoma?

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Aggressive, contains fetal tissue & neuroectoderm

107
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What tumor produces estrogen/progesterone and pw/ abnormal uterine bleeding, sexual precocity, breast tenderness, and call-exner bodies?

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Granulosa cell tumor
MC sex cord stromal tumor; ~50yo
Call Exner bodies resemble primordial follicles

108
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What has sheets of fried egg cells, high hCG and LDH?

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Dysgerminoma
MC In adolescents
Remember equivalent to seminoma

109
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What is a yolk sac tumor?

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In sacrococcyeal area in young children, aggressive
Yellow, friable solid mass
Schiller duvall bodies (resemble glomeruli)
Increased aFP
Common in boys

110
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What is vaginal SCC?

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Usually secondary to cervical SCC. Primary are rare

111
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What has spindle shaped tumorcells that are desmin +?

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Sarcoma botryoides (rhambdomyoscaroma variant)
Girls
112
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What is a movable small painless firm mass in the breast?

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Fibroadenoma (stromal tumor)

Not a precursor to breast cancer inc with estrogen
Compresses epithelium spaces

113
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What presents with serous or bloody nipple discharge?

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Intraductal papilloma

In lactiferous sinus. Increased risk for carcinoma

114
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What is a large bulky mass with leaf like projects?

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Phyllodes Tumor (stromal tumor)

May become malignant

115
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What breast cancer is most aggressive?

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Triple negative: ER, PR, Her2/Neu

Increased risk in african americans

116
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What cas caseous ductal necrosis?

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Comedocarcinoma

117
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What often shows up early as microcalcifications on mammography?

118
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What presents with eczematous patches on nipples and large cells with clear halo on histology?

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Paget’s disease (those are paget cells)

From underlying DCIS

119
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What is a rock hard mass with sharp margins and small glandular duct like cells? See stellate infiltration and desmoplastic stroma.

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Invasive ductal

MC and worst

120
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What has orderly row of cells?

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Invasive lobular

Bilateral with multiple lesions in same location

121
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What breast cancer is fleshy cellular with lymphocytic infiltrate?

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Medullary

Good prognosis

122
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What is inflammatory breast cancer?

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Dermal lymphatic invasion. Peau d’orange from neoplastic cells blocking lymphatic drainage

123
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What are the proliferative breast disease?

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Fibrosis: hyperplasia
Cystic: fluid filled, blue dome
Sclerosis adenosis: inc acini and intralobular fibrosis, calcifications
Epithelial hyperplasia: inc epi cell layers in terminal duct lobule

124
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How do you treat endometritis

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Gentamicin + clindamycin

125
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How do you treat mastitis?

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Dicloxacillin

126
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What causes gynecomastia?

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Sprionolactone, marjiuana, digitalis, estrogen, cimetidine, alochol, heroin, dopamine antagonists, ketoconazole

127
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What is prostatitis?

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Acute: bacterial (E. coli)
Chronic: abacterial (MC)

Dysuria, frequency, low back pain, urgency

128
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What were the things to remember with cryptorchdism?

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Testosterone normal (leydig not temperature sensitive)
Decreased spermatogensis (sertoli temp sensitive)
Increased germ cell tumor risk
Prematurity increases risk
Inc FSH, LH; Dec inhibin
Testosterone dec in bilateral

129
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What are the tumor markers for prostate adenocarcinoma

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PAP and PSA

130
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What is a seminoma?

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Malignant, painless, hematogenous, fried egg appearance, large cells in lobules with watery cytoplasm

Increased ALP
Radiosensitive, late metastasis, great prognosis

131
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What is embryonal carcinoma?

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Malignant, hemorrhagic mass with necrosis, painful, glandular/papillary; WORST

Usually mixed w/ other tumor types
Inc hCG and normal AFP when pure , inc AFP if not pure

132
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What is golden brown and has reinke crystals?

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Leydig cell tumor

Androgen producing (gynecomastia, precocious puberty)

133
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What is a sertoli cell tumor?

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Androblastoma from sex cord stroma

134
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What is a testicular lymphoma?

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MC in older men; usually form metastates. Aggressive

135
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What are SCC of penis?

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Bowen: penile shaft, leukoplakia
Erythroplasia of Queyrat: glans, erythroplakia
Bowenoid papulosis: ressidh papules

Aw/ HPV

136
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What is mifepristone?

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Progesterone receptor antagonist

137
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When are OCPs contraindicated?

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Smokers > 35yo (inc CV events), history of thromboembolism or stroke, or estrogen dependent tumor

138
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What is terbutaline?

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Beta-2 agonist, relaxes uterus during labor

139
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What is Danazol?

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Partial androgen receptor agonist

Used for endometriosis, hereditary angioedema

140
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What do you use for anabolism to promote recovery after burn or injury?

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Testosterone

141
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What do you treat male pattern baldness with?

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Finasteride (DHT causes it)

142
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What is flutamide?

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Testosterone receptor inhibitor (blocks androgen binding)

143
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What do you treat prostate carcinoma with?

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Flutamide and Leuprolide

144
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What do ketoconaozle and spironolactone do?

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Keto: inhibits steroid synthesis
Spironolactone: inhibits steroid binding

145
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Where does smooth muscle relaxation occur with PDE5 inhibitors?

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Corpus cavernosum

146
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Side effects of PDE5 inhibitors?

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Flushing, headache, dyspepsia, blue green color vision problem

Life threatening hypotension in patients on nitrates

147
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What causes candida vaginitis?

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Antibiotics most commonly (suppress normal flora like lactobacillus)

Also OCP, steroid, diabetes, immunosuppresion

148
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What increases in Down Syndrome?

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hCG and inhibin

149
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What is vaginal agenesis (MRKH syndrome or mullerian aplasia)

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No upper vagina (short vagina) and variable uterine development. XX with normal ovaries and secondary sexual characteristics.

150
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What are soft compressible masses that transilluminate? Found in the neck.

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Cystic hygromas (associated with Turners)

151
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What does mumps orchitis cause?

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Leydig cell atrophy (decreased testosterone), seminiferous tubule atrophy, and infertility.

Treat with testosterone

152
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Why do you see atretic follicles?

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Lack of FSH exposure causes primordial follicles to undergo apoptosis

153
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What is nandrolone?

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A steroid (athletes take it)

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