Robbins Ch 16 Flashcards
Infectious Rhinitis (common cold) is most commonly caused by?
1) Adenoviruses
2) Echoviruses
3) Rhinoviruses
What is characteristic of the late phase of allergic rhinitis (hay fever)?
Prominent eosinophils
What condition can cause necrotizing lesion of the nose/upper airway typically in middle aged adults?
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener granulomatosis)
What tumor is almost exclusively in red-head, fair-skinned adolescent males?
What mutation is it associated with?
1) Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma
2) Familial adenomatous polyps (FAP)
What are highly malignant small, blue, round cell neoplasms where patients may present with nasal obstruction?
Olfactory Neuroblastoma
NUT Midline Carcinoma is due to a translocation that causes what fusion gene?
NUT and BRD4
What is the most frequent childhood cancer in some parts of Africa and is very common in adults in southern China?
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
What factors can cause nasopharyngeal carcinoma?
1) Herediary
2) Age
3) EBV infection
Reactive Nodules (polyps) of the Vocal Cords is unilateral in what population?
It is bilateral in what population?
1) Heavy smokers
2) Singers
What are small benign squamous epithelium lined lesions on the true vocal cords?
They have strong associations with what HPV types?
1) Laryngeal squamous papilloma
2) 6 and 11
Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma is typically seen in what population?
What clinical sign is associated?
1) Male chronic smokers 60 and up
2) Persistent hoarseness
What can cause chronic otitis media in diabetic patients?
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
What arise in the neck and are benign, well circumscribed with fibrous walls usually lined by stratified squamous or pseudostratified columnar epithelium?
It is most common in what population?
1) Branchial Cyst
2) Young adults
What are chiefly composed of nests (zellballen) of round to oval chief cells?
What do they secrete?
1) Carotid body tumor
2) Catecholamines
What cystic lesions can cause bone erosion?
1) Mucocele
2) Cholesteatoma
