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What is the most common cause of neural tube defects?

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Folate deficiency

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What is the most common preventable cause of congenital malformations in the U.S.?

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Alcohol use

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Hyeprflexible joints, arachnodactyly, aortic dissection, lens dislocation

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Marfan Syndrome (defect in fibrilin)

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Hereditary nephritis, cataracts, sensorineural hearing loss

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Alport Syndrome (defect in Type IV collagen)

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What is the most common site of a berry aneurysm?

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Anterior Communicating Artery

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What diseases are often associated with berry aneurysms?

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Autosomal Dominant PKD

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

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Which type of intracranial hemorrhage is associated with: “Worst headache of my life” ?

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Which type of intracranial hemorrhage is associated with: Lucid interval following head trauma ?

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Epidural hemorrhage

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Which type of intracranial hemorrhage is associated with: Blood CSF on LP ?

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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What is the most common cause of a subdural hematoma?

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Rupture of bridging veins

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What is the most common cause of a epidural hematoma?

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Rupture of middle meningeal artery

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What is the most common cause of dementia?

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Alzheimer Disease

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What is the second most common cause of dementia?

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Vascular Dementia

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What disease has extracellular amyloid deposits in the gray matter?

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Alzheimer Disease

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What disease has intracellular deposits of hyperphosphorylated tau protein?

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Alzheimer Disease

intracellular hyperphosphorylated tau proteins = neurofibrillary plaques/tangles

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What disease has intracellular spherical aggregates of tau protein seen on silver stain?

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Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick Disease)

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What do you call amyloid deposits in the gray matter of the brain?

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Senile plaques (Alzheimer Disease)

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Drooling farmer

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organophosphate poisoning

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What is the medical treatment for a pheochromocytoma?

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Alpha-antagonists (Phenoxybenzamine)

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What is the selective Alpha-1 antagonist used to treat BPH?

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Tamsulosin

Alpha-1AD receptor antagonist

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What congenital heart defect causes a continuous, machinery-like heart murmur?

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Patent Ductus Arteriosis (PDA)

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What congenital heart defect demonstrates a “boot-shaped heart” on chest x-ray?

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Tetralogy of Fallot (in children)

VSD, Pulmonary stenosis, Right ventricular hypertrophy, overriding aorta

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What congenital heart defect causes rib notching that may be seen on chest x-ray?

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Coarctaton of Aorta

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What is the most common congenital cardiac anomaly?

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Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)

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What is the most common congenital cause of early cyanosis?

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Tetralogy of Fallot

VSD, Pulmonary stenosis, Right ventricular hypertrophy, overriding aorta

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What type of heart murmur is often associated with bounding pulses, head bobbing, and diastolic murmur?

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Aortic Regurgitation

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What type of heart murmur is often described as a continuous, machine-like murmur?

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Patent Ductus Arteriosus

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What bone disease is characterized by bone enlargement, bone pain, and arthritis?

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Paget disease of bone

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Wha bone disease is characterized by vertebral compression fractures?

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Osteoporosis

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What joint disease is characterized by swollen, hard, painful finger joints?

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Osteoarthritis

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What joint disease is characterized by swollen, boggy, painful finger joints?

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

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What joint disease is characterized by cartilage erosion with polished bone beneath (eburnation of bone)?

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Osteoarthritis

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What joint disease is characterized by swollen, red, acutely painful great toe joint/MTP (“podagra”)?

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Gout

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What joint disease is characterized by positively birefringent rhomboid-shaped crystals?

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Pseudogout

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What joint disease is characterized by negatively birefringent needle-shaped crystals?

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Gout

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What joint disease is characterized by “bamboo spine” on x-ray?

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Ankylosing spondylitis

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What diseases are charactized by HLA-B27?

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Seronegative spongyloarthropathies: “PAIR”

1) Psoriasis (psoriatic arthritis)
2) Ankylosing spondylitis
3) IBD
4) Reactive Arthritis

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What joint disease is characterized by “Pencil-in-cup” deformity on x-ray of the finger?

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Psoriatic arthritis

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by anti-Smith and anti-dsDNA antibodies?

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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by anti-histone antibodies?

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Drug-induced Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by anti-centromere antibodies?

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CREST Syndrome = Calcinosis + Raynaud Phenomenon + Esophageal dysfunction + Sclerodactyly + Telangiectasias

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by anti-topoisomerase antibodies?

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Diffuse Scleroderma

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by anti-Jo-1 antibodies?

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Polymyositis

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by anti-Ro antibodies?

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Sjogren Syndrome

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What rheumatologic disorder is characterized by arthritis, dry mouth, and dry eyes?

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Sjogren Syndrome

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What skin disorder is characterized by keratin pearls on skin biopsy?

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Squamous cell carcinoma

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47
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What is the most common malignant skin tumor?

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Basal cell carcinoma

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What is the main artery of the pelvis?

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Internal Iliac Artery

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What is the main nerve of the pelvis?

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Pudendal Nerve

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What gonadal drainage disorder is characterized by a “bag of worms” scrotum?

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Varicocele

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What is the most common cancer in men?

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Prostate Cancer

52
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What is the most common cause of urinary obstruction in men?

53
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What is the most common treatment of erectile dysfunction?

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Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors

54
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Use of what reproductive drug is associated with hepatic adenomas?

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Oral contraceptive pills

55
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What reproductive disease is characterized by “grape-like” vaginal tumors?

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Sarcoma botryoides (Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma variant)

56
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What reproductive disease is associated with koilocytes?

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HPV infection

57
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What is the most common benign tumor in women?

58
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What reproductive disease is characterized by a “chocolate cyst” of the ovary?

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Endometriosis (of ovary = endometrioma)

59
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What reproductive disease is characterized by a “powder burn” lesion?

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Endometriosis

60
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What is the most common cause of infertility in women?

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What do you call midcycle pain associated with ovulation?

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Mittelschmerz

62
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What syndrome is characterized by ovarian tumor + ascites + hydrothorax?

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Meigs Syndrome

63
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What type of teratoma causes hyperthyroidism?

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Struma Ovarii

64
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What reproductive disorder is characterized by “snowstorm” appearance on ultrasound?

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Hydatidiform mole

65
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What is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability?

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Trisomy 21 = Down Syndrome

66
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What is the second most common genetic cause of intellectual disability?

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Fragile X Syndrome

67
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What chromosomal disorder is characterized by horshoe kidneys, congenital heart defects, streak ovaries, and cystic hygroma?

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Turner Syndrome (XO)

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What chromosomal disorder is characterized by rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, microcephaly with prominent occiput and small jaw?

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Trisomy 18 = Edward Syndrome

69
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What is the most common cancer in women in the U.S.?

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Breast cancer

70
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What is the most common benign breast tumor?

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Fibroadenoma?

71
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What is the most common malignant breast tumor?

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Infiltrating ductal carcinoma

72
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What breast disease is characterized by a blue dome cyst in the breast?

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Fibrocystic change

73
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What is the treatment for ER+ breast cancer?

74
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What breast disease is characterized by a red, itchy, swollen rash on the areola and nipple?

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Paget disease of the breast

75
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What bacteria is characterized by branching, filamentous, gram-positive rods with sulfur granules?

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Actinomyces israelii

76
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What is the standard treatment for Treponema pallidum?

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Penicillin

Penicillin G = IV, or if allergy give Doxycycline

77
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What zoonotic bacterial infection results in cellulitis from a dog or cat bite?

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Pasteurella multocida

78
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What do you call a non-painful, indurated, ulcerated genital lesion? What is the name of the disease?

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Chancre => Primary Syphillis

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What do you call a moist, smooth, flat, white genital lesion? What is the name of the disease?

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Condylomata lata => Secondary Syphillis

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What disease is characterized by a large bull’s-eye rash?

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Lyme Disease

bull’s eye rash => erythema migrans

81
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What bacterial infection is associated with a Ghon focus or Ghon complex (Ghron focus + hilar lymphadenopathy)?

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Primary Tuberculosis

Ghon focus = lung lesion

82
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What bacterial infection is associated with lung infiltrate in the apical-posterior segments of upper lobes?

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Reactive Tuberculosis

83
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What is the standard initial treatment regimen for TB?

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RIPE:

Rifampin

Isoniazid (+Pyridoxine/B6)

Pyrazinamide

Ethambutol

84
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What immunological disease is characterized by eczema + recurrent cold abscesses + high serum IgE?

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Hyper IgE Syndrome (Job Syndrome)

85
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What immunological disease is characterized by large phagosomal vesicles in neutrophils?

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Chediak-Higashi Syndrome

86
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What is the treatment for absence seizures?

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Ethosuximide

87
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What neurological disorder is characterized by conjugate lateral gaze palsy, with nystagmus and diplopia during lateral gaze?

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Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (MLF Syndrome)

Seen in Multiple Sclerosis

88
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What neurological disorder is characterized by degeneration of the dorsal columns?

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Tabes dorsalis

Seen in Tertiary Syphilis

89
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What neurological disorder is characterized as a demyelinating disease in a young woman?

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Multiple Sclerosis

90
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What neurological disorder is characterized by mixed upper and lower motor neuron disease?

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

91
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What neurological disorder is characterized by the depigmentation of the substantia nigra?

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Parkinson disease

92
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What neurological disorder is characterized by chorea, dementia, and atrophy of the caudate and putamen?

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Huntington disease

93
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What neurological finding is characterized by eosinophilic inclusions in the cytoplasm of neurons? What disease?

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Lewy bodies => Parkinson Disease, Lewy Body Dementia

94
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What brachial plexus lesion is characterized by a newborn with arm paralysis following a difficult labor?

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Erb-Duchenne Palsy (C5-C6 roots)

95
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What gastrointestinal condition is characterized by dysphagia (esophageal webs) + glossitis + iron deficiency anemia?

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Plummer-Vinson Syndrome

96
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What gastroinestinal condition is characterized by hematemesis with retching?

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Mallory-Weiss Syndrome/Tear

97
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What do you called a mucin-filled cell with a peripheral nucleus? What pathology does it indicate?

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Signet Ring Cell

Could be Gastric cancer or Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS)

98
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What is the most common type of stomach cancer?

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Adenocarcinoma

99
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What do you call an ovarian metastasis from gastric cancer?

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Krukenberg Tumor

100
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What gastrointestinal condition is characterized by gastric ulcerations and high gastrin levels?

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Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome

101
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What gastrointestinal condition is characterized by an acute gastric ulcer associated with elevated ICP or head trauma?

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Cushing ulcer

102
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What gastrointestinal condition is characterized by an acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns?

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Curling ulcer

103
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What gastrointestinal disease is characterized by weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy, and hyperpigmentation?

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Whipple Disease

104
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What disease is associated with anti-tranglutaminase and anti-gliadin antibodies?

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Celiac Disease

105
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What vitamin is given to pregnant women to prevent neural tube defects?

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Folic acid

106
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What is the most common surgical emergency?

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Appendicitis

107
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What physical exam finding is characterized by severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness?

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McBurney’s Point sign/tenderness

108
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What disorder is characterized by GI hamartomas and hyperpigmentation of the mouth and hands?

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Peutz-Jegher Syndrome

109
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What disorder is characterized by multiple colonic polyps, osteomas, and soft tissue tumors?

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Gardner Syndrome

110
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What should you suspect if “apple core” lesions are found on barium enema studies?

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Colon cancer (until proven otherwise)

111
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What is the most common site of colonic diverticula?

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Sigmoid colon

112
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What condition is associated with a “string sign” on contrast x-ray?

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Crohn’s Disease

113
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What condition is associated with a “lead pipe” appearance of the colon on contrast x-ray?

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Ulcerative Colitis

114
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What condition is characterized by painless jaundice?

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Pancreatic cancer

115
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What is the most common cause of Acute Pancreatitis?

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Alcohol/Gallstones

116
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What is the most common cause of chronic pancreatitis?

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Alcohol abuse

117
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What condition presents as severe hyperbilirubinemia in a neonate?

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Crigler-Najjar Syndrome (Type I)

118
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What condition is characterized by mild, benign hyperbilirubinemia?

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Gilbert Syndrome

119
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What disease is characterized by triglyceride accumulation in hepatocytes?

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Fatty liver disease

can be Hepatic steatosis from heavy alcohol use or Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease from metabolic syndrome

120
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What pathologic finding is characterized by eosinophilic inclusions in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes?

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Mallory bodies (common in alcoholic hepatitis)

121
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What type of cancer is closely linked to cirrhosis?

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma

122
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What condition is characterized by hepatomegaly, abdominal pain, and ascites?

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Budd-Chiari Syndrome

123
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What disease is characterized by green/yellow corneal deposits?

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Kayser-Fleischer rings => Wilson Disease

124
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What disease is characterized by low ceruloplasmin?

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Wilson Disease

125
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What condition is characterized by cirrhosis, diabetes, and hyperpigmentation?

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Hemochromatosis (“Bronze Diabetes”)

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