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USMLE- Classic Associations Flashcards

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Actinic Keratosis

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SCC

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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Cushing’s ulcer (increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretion)

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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns

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Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)

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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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Crohn’s: skip lesions

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Dissecting Aneurysm

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Hypertension

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Aortic Aneurysm- abdominal and descending aorta

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Atherosclerosis

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Aortic Aneurysm- ascending

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Marfan’s (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)

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Atrophy of mamillary bodies

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Wernicke encephalopathy: Thiamine (B1) deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion.

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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle Cell Disease

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PUD and stomach cancer

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H Pylori

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Bacterial Meningitis (adults and elderly)

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Strep pneumo

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Bacterial Meningitis (newborns and kids)

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GBS (newborns), Strep pneumo/Neisseria Meningitidis (kids)

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Benign Melanocytic Nevus

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Spitz nevus (most common find in first two decades)

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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier dz (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)

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Brain Tumor (adults)

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Supratentorial! Mets > Astrocytoma (GBM) > meningioma > Schwannoma

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Brain Tumor (Kids)

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Infratentorial (more common)? Medulloblastoma (solid), Pilocytic Astrocytoma (heterogeneous); Supratentorial? Craniopharyngioma (Rathke’s Pouch)

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Breast Cancer

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Infiltrating ductal carcinoma [unsure what they’re getting at here]

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Breast Mass

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  1. Fibrocystic change, 2. carcinoma (in post-menopausal women)
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Breast Tumor (benign)

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Fibroadenoma

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Cardiac 1o tumor (kids)

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Rhabdomyoma, often seen in TS

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Cardiac manifestation of Lupus

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Libman-Sacks endocarditis (non-bacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)

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Cardiac Tumor (adults)

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  1. mets; 2. 1o myxoma (4:1 L->R atrium; “ball and valve”)
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Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation

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Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus and syringomyelia)

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Chronic Arrhythmia

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AFib

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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma and pernicious anemia

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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

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Compression fracture

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Osteoporosis (type I- postmenopausal women; type II- elderly man or woman)

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CAH- hypotension

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21 hydroxylase

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Congenital Conjugated Hyperbiliruninemia (black liver)

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Dubin-Johnson Syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)

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Constictive pericarditis

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SLE (developed world); TB (Developing world)

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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis

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LAD>RCA>LCA

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Cretinism

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Iodine deficiency/hypothyroidism

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Cushing’s syndrome

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  1. corticosteroid therapy; 2. Excess ACTH secretion by pituitary; 3. Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
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Death in CML

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Blast Crisis

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Death in SLE

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Nephropathy

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DIC

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sepsis (gram negative), Trauma, Obstetric complications, Acute Pancreatits, Malignancy, nephrotic syndrome, transufsion

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Diverticulum in Pharynx

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Zenker’s diverticulum (dx by barium swallow, caused by increased pressure)

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Esophageal Cancer

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Adenocarcinoma (US), SCC (world)

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Exotoxin food poisoning

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S. Aureus, B. Cereus

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GN (adults)

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IgA nephropathy (Berger’s dz)

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Gyn Malignancy

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Endometrial carcinoma (US), SCC (world)

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Heart Valve in SBE

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  1. Mitral (Rheumatic Fever); 2. Tricuspid (IVDA); 3. Aortic (Rheumatic Fever #2)
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Helminth Infection (US)

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  1. Enterobius Vermicularis, 2. Ascaris Lumbricoides
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Epidural Hematoma

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Middle Meningeal Artery- Lentiform

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Subdural Hematoma

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Bridging veins- crescent shape

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Hemochromatosis

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Multiple blood transfusions; hereditary HFE mutation; bronze DM, HCC

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Hereditary Harmless Jaundice

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Gilbert’s syndrome- benign unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

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HLA-B27 (MHC-I)

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Ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter’s syndrome, UC, psoriasis

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HLA-DR3 or DR4 (MHC-II)

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TIDM, RA, SLE

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Hypoparathyroidism

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Accidental excision s/p thyroid surgery

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Hypopituitarism

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Pituitary adenoma

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Infections in chronic granulomatous dz

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Staph Aureus, E-coli, Aspergillus (catalase positive)

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Kidney Stones

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  1. Calcium- radiopaque; 2. Struvite- radiopaque; 3. Uric Acid- radiolucent
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Non-infectious fever malignancy

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Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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Mental Retardation

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  1. Down’s, 2. Fragile X (trinucleotide repeat involved in hypermethylation of DNA)
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Mets to bone

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Breast, lung, thyroid, testes, prostate, kidney

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Mets to brain

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lung, breast, skin (melanoma), kidney (RCC), GI

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Mets to liver

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Colon, Gastric, pancreatic, breast, lung

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Pediatric neoplasm

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  1. ALL; 2. Cerebellar medulloblastoma
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Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

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FSGS

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Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

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minimal change dz- assoc with infections/vaccinations; treat with steroids

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Neuron migration failure

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Kallman syndrome- anosmia, hypogonadism

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Osteomyelitis

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S. Aureus

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Osteo in Sickle Cell

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Salmonella

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Osteo in IVDA

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Pseudomonas, S. Aureus

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Ovarian mets from stomach or breast

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Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet-ring cells)

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ALL

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Child

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CLL

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adult>60

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AML

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adult>60

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CML

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adult 30-60- philadelphia chromosome t(9,22) Bcr-abl

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Pituitary tumor

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  1. Prolactinoma, 2. Somatotropic (acidophilic) adenoma
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Primary Hyperaldosteronism

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Adenoma of adrenal cortex

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Primary hyperparathyroidism

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  1. adenomas; 2. hyperplasia; 3. carcinoma
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HCC

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Chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, alpha1 antitrypsin

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Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities

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Buerger’s disease: strongly associated with tobacco, inflammation can extend to neighboring veins/nerves

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Right Heart Failure due to a pulmonary cause

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Cor Pulmonale

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S3 (protodiastolic gallop)

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Increased ventricular filling (L–>R shunt, mitral regurgitation, LV failure)

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S4 (presystolic gallop)

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Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive CM)

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Secondary hyperparathyroidism

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Hypocalcemia from chronic renal disease

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Atherosclerosis site

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Abdominal Aorta> coronary > popliteal > carotid

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t(14;18)

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Follicular lymphoma- bcl2 activation

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t(8;14)

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Burkitt’s lymphoma- c-myc activation

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t(9,22)

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Philadelphia chromosome, CML, bcr-abl fusion

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Temporal arteritis

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Polymyalgia rheumatica, risk of blindness due to thrombosis of ophthalmic artery

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Thyroid cancer with radiation exposure

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Papillary Carcinoma (JAPILLARY!)

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UTI

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E Coli, S. Saprophyticus

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Temporal lobe encephalitis

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HSV-1

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