USMLE Step 1 First Aid - Key Associations

Question 1

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Actinic (solar) keratosis

Answer 1

Most common/important associations: Squamous cell carcinoma

Question 2

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Acute gastric ulcer associated w/ CNS injury

Answer 2

Most common/important associations: Cushing’s ulcer (increased ICP stimulates gastric secretion)

Question 3

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Acute gastric ulcer associated w/ severe burns

Answer 3

Most common/important associations: Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)

Question 4

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

Answer 4

Most common/important associations: Skip lesions (Crohn’s disease: autoimmune)

Question 5

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Aneurysm, dissecting

Answer 5

Most common/important associations: HTN

Question 6

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta

Answer 6

Most common/important associations: Atherosclerosis

Question 7

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Aortic aneurysm, ascending

Answer 7

Most common/important associations: Tertiary syphilis

Question 8

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Atrophy of the mammillary bodies

Answer 8

Most common/important associations:

Wernicke’s encephalopathy (the Triad symptoms of ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion), caused by thiamine deficiency

Question 9

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

Answer 9

Most common/important associations: Sickle cell anemia (HbS)

Question 10

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Bacteremia/pneumonia (IV drug user)

Answer 10

Most common/important associations: S. aureus

Question 11

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Bacteria associated w/ stomach cancer

Answer 11

Most common/important associations: H. pylori

Question 12

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

Answer 12

Most common/important associations: Streptococcus pneumoniae

Question 13

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)

Answer 13

Most common/important associations: Group B streptococcus (newborns), S. pneumoniae/Neisseria meningitidis (kids)

Question 14

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Benign melanocytic nevus

Answer 14

Most common/important associations: Spitz nevus (most common in first two decades)

Question 15

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Bleeding disorder w/ GpIb deficiency

Answer 15

Most common/important associations: Bernard-Soulier dz (defect in platelet adhesion)

Question 16

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Brain tumor (adults)

Answer 16

Most common/important associations: Supratentorial: mets < astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) < meningioma < schwannoma

Question 17

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Brain tumor (kids)

Answer 17

Most common/important associations:

Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or

supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)

Question 18

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Breast cancer

Answer 18

Most common/important associations: Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in USA, 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer)

Question 19

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Breast mass

Answer 19

Most common/important associations: 1.) Fibrocystic change 2.) Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

Question 20

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Breast tumor (benign)

Answer 20

Most common/important associations: Fibroadenoma

Question 21

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Bug in debilitated, hospitalized pneumonia patient

Answer 21

Most common/important associations: Klebsiella

Question 22

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Cardiac primary tumor (kids)

Answer 22

Most common/important associations: Rhabdomyoma

Question 23

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Cardiac manifestation of lupus

Answer 23

Most common/important associations: Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting mitral)

Question 24

Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding

Disease/finding: Cardiac tumor (adults)

Answer 24

Most common/important associations: 1.) metastasis 2.) Primary myxoma (4:1 Left to right atrium; “ball and valve”)

Question 25

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Cardiomyopathy

Answer 25

Most common/important associations: Dilated cardiomyopathy (40% are familial)

Question 26

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Cerebellar tonsillar herniation

Answer 26

Most common/important associations: Arnold-Chiari malformation (often causes hydrocephalus)

Question 27

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Chronic arrhythmia

Answer 27

Most common/important associations: Atrial fibrillation (associated w/ high risk of emboli)

Question 28

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Chronic atrophic gastritis (the autoimmune version of the dz)

Answer 28

Most common/important associations: Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

Question 29

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

Answer 29

Most common/important associations: DES exposure in utero

Question 30

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Answer 30

Most common/important associations: 21-hydroxylase deficiency

Question 31

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Congenital cardiac anomaly

Answer 31

Most common/important associations: VSD

Question 32

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)

Answer 32

Most common/important associations: Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)

Question 33

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Constrictive pericarditis in developing world

Answer 33

Most common/important associations: Tuberculosis

Question 34

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Coronary artery involved in thrombosis

Answer 34

Most common/important associations: LAD \< RCA \< LCA

Question 35

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Cretinism

Answer 35

Most common/important associations: Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism

Question 36

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Cushing's syndrome

Answer 36

Most common/important associations: 1.) Corticosteroid therapy 2.) Excess ACTH secretion by pituitary

Question 37

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Cyanosis (early; less common)

Answer 37

Most common/important associations: Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great vessels, truncus arteriosus

Question 38

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Cyanosis (late; more common)

Answer 38

Most common/important associations: VSD, ASD, PDA

Question 39

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Death in CML

Answer 39

Most common/important associations: Blast crisis

Question 40

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Death in SLE

Answer 40

Most common/important associations: Lupus nephropathy

Question 41

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Dementia

Answer 41

Most common/important associations: 1.) Alzheimer's disease 2.) Multiple infarcts

Question 42

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Demyelinating disease

Answer 42

Most common/important associations: Multiple sclerosis

Question 43

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: DIC

Answer 43

Most common/important associations: Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burn trauma

Question 44

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Dietary deficit

Answer 44

Most common/important associations: Iron

Question 45

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Diverticulum in pharynx

Answer 45

Most common/important associations: Zenker's diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)

Question 46

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Ejection click

Answer 46

Most common/important associations: Aortic/pulmonic stenosis

Question 47

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Esophageal cancer

Answer 47

Most common/important associations: Squamous cell carcinoma

Question 48

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Food poisoning

Answer 48

Most common/important associations: S. aureus

Question 49

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Gene involved in cancer

Answer 49

Most common/important associations: p53 tumor suppressor gene

Question 50

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Glomerulonephritis (adults)

Answer 50

Most common/important associations: Berger's disease (IgA nephropathy)

Question 51

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Gynecologic malignancy

Answer 51

Most common/important associations: Endometrial carcinoma

Question 52

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Heart murmur

Answer 52

Most common/important associations: Mitral valve prolapse

Question 53

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Heart valves involved in bacterial endocarditis

Answer 53

Most common/important associations: Mitral (rheumatic fever) Tricuspid (IV drug abuse) Aortic (2nd affected in rheumatic fever)

Question 54

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Helminth infxn (in USA)

Answer 54

Most common/important associations: 1. ) Enterobius vermicularis 2. ) Ascaris lumbricoides

Question 55

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hematoma - epidural

Answer 55

Most common/important associations: Rupture of middle meningeal artery (arterial bleeding is fast)

Question 56

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hematoma - subdural

Answer 56

Most common/important associations: Rupture of bridging veins (trauma; venous bleeding is slow)

Question 57

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hemochromatosis

Answer 57

Most common/important associations: Multiple blood transfusions (can result in CHF and increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)

Question 58

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hepatocellular carcinoma

Answer 58

Most common/important associations: Cirrhotic liver (often associated w/ Hepatitis B and C)

Question 59

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hereditary bleeding disorder

Answer 59

Most common/important associations: von Willebrand's dz

Question 60

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hereditary harmless jaundice

Answer 60

Most common/important associations: Gilbert's syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

Question 61

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: HLA-B27

Answer 61

Most common/important associations: Ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome, ulcerative colitis

Question 62

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: HLA-DR3 or -DR4

Answer 62

Most common/important associations: DM1, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE

Question 63

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Holosystolic murmur

Answer 63

Most common/important associations: VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation

Question 64

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis

Answer 64

Most common/important associations: Virchow's triad (results in venous thrombosis)

Question 65

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Secondary hypertension

Answer 65

Most common/important associations: Renal dz

Question 66

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hypoparathyroidism

Answer 66

Most common/important associations: Thyroidectomy

Question 67

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Hypopituitarism

Answer 67

Most common/important associations: Adenoma

Question 68

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Infection in blood transfusion

Answer 68

Most common/important associations: Hepatitis C

Question 69

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Kidney stones

Answer 69

Most common/important associations: 1. ) Calcium = radiopaque 2. ) Struvite (ammonium) = radiopaque (formed by urease-positive organisms such as Proteus vulgaris and Staphylococcus) 3. ) Uric acid = radiolucent

Question 70

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected L--\

Answer 70

Most common/important associations: Eisenmenger's syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA; results in pulmonary HTN/polycythemia)

Question 71

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Liver dz

Answer 71

Most common/important associations: Alcoholic liver dz

Question 72

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Lysosomal storage dz

Answer 72

Most common/important associations: Gaucher's dz

Question 73

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Male cancer

Answer 73

Most common/important associations: Prostatic carcinoma

Question 74

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Malignancy associated w/ noninfectious fever

Answer 74

Most common/important associations: Hodgkin's lymphoma

Question 75

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Malignant skin tumor

Answer 75

Most common/important associations: Basal cell carcinoma (rarely metastasizes)

Question 76

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Mental retardation

Answer 76

Most common/important associations: 1.) Down syndrome 2.) Fragile X syndrome

Question 77

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Mets to bone

Answer 77

Most common/important associations: Breast, lung, thyroid, testes, prostate, kidney

Question 78

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Mets to brain

Answer 78

Most common/important associations: Lung, breast, skin (melanoma), kidney (renal cell carcinoma), GI

Question 79

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Mets to liver

Answer 79

Most common/important associations: Colon, gastric, pancreatic, breast, and lung carcinomas

Question 80

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Mitral valve stenosis

Answer 80

Most common/important associations: Rheumatic heart dz

Question 81

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Motor neuron dz

Answer 81

Most common/important associations: ALS

Question 82

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Myocarditis

Answer 82

Most common/important associations: Coxsackie B

Question 83

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Neoplasm (kids)

Answer 83

Most common/important associations: 1.) ALL 2.) Cerebellar medulloblastoma

Question 84

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Nephrotic syndrome (adults)

Answer 84

Most common/important associations: Membranous glomerulonephritis

Question 85

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Nephrotic syndrome (kids)

Answer 85

Most common/important associations: Minimal change disease (associated w/ infxns/vaccinations; Tx w/ corticosteroids)

Question 86

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Obstruction of male urinary tract

Answer 86

Most common/important associations: BPH

Question 87

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Opening snap

Answer 87

Most common/important associations: Mitral stenosis

Question 88

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Opportunistic infxn in AIDS

Answer 88

Most common/important associations: Pneumocystis jiroveci (formerly carinii) pneumonia

Question 89

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Organ receiving mets

Answer 89

Most common/important associations: Adrenal glands (due to rich blood supply)

Question 90

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Organ sending mets

Answer 90

Most common/important associations: Lung \< breast, stomach

Question 91

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Osteomyelitis

Answer 91

Most common/important associations: S. aureus

Question 92

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Osteomyelitis in pts w/ sickle cell dz

Answer 92

Most common/important associations: Salmonella

Question 93

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Osteomyelitis in IV drug users

Answer 93

Most common/important associations: Pseudomonas

Question 94

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Ovarian metastasis from gastric carcinoma or breast cancer

Answer 94

Most common/important associations: Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet-ring cells)

Question 95

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Ovarian tumor (benign)

Answer 95

Most common/important associations: Serous cystadenoma

Question 96

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Ovarian tumor (malignant)

Answer 96

Most common/important associations: Serous cystadenocarcinoma

Question 97

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pancreatic tumor

Answer 97

Most common/important associations: Adenocarcinoma (head of pancreas)

Question 98

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pancreatitis (acute)

Answer 98

Most common/important associations: EtOH and gallstones

Question 99

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pancreatitis (chronic)

Answer 99

Most common/important associations: EtOH (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)

Question 100

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pts with ALL/CLL/AML/CML

Answer 100

Most common/important associations: **A**LL: child **C**LL: Adult \>60 C**M**L: Adult 35-50

Question 101

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pts w/ Hodgkin's dz

Answer 101

Most common/important associations: young male (except nodular sclerosis type: female)

Question 102

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pelvic inflammatory dz

Answer 102

Most common/important associations: Neisseria gonorrhoae (monoarticular arthritis)

Question 103

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) (bcr-abl)

Answer 103

Most common/important associations: CML (may sometimes be associated with ALL/AML)

Question 104

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pituitary tumor

Answer 104

Most common/important associations: 1.) Prolactinoma 2.) Somatotropic "acidophilic" adenoma

Question 105

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pneumonia (hospital-acquired)

Answer 105

Most common/important associations: Klebsiella

Question 106

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Primary amenorrhea

Answer 106

Most common/important associations: Turner's syndrome (XO)

Question 107

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Primary bone tumor (adults)

Answer 107

Most common/important associations: Multiple myeloma

Question 108

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Primary hyperaldosteronism

Answer 108

Most common/important associations: Adenoma of adrenal cortex

Question 109

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Primary hyperparathyroidism

Answer 109

Most common/important associations: 1. ) Adenomas 2. ) Hyperplasia 3. ) Carcinoma

Question 110

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Primary liver cancer

Answer 110

Most common/important associations: Hepatocellular carcinoma (aka hepatoma)

Question 111

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Pulmonary HTN

Answer 111

Most common/important associations: COPD

Question 112

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities

Answer 112

Most common/important associations: Buerger's dz (strongly associated w/ tobacco)

Question 113

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Renal tumor

Answer 113

Most common/important associations: Renal cell carcinoma: associated w/ von Hippel-Lindau dz, and adult polycystic kidney disease; paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTH, ACTH)

Question 114

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause

Answer 114

Most common/important associations: Cor pulmonale

Question 115

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: S3 (protodiastolic gallop)

Answer 115

Most common/important associations: Increased ventricular filling (L--\

Question 116

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: S4 (presystolic gallop)

Answer 116

Most common/important associations: Stiff or hypertrophic ventricle (caused by aortic stenosis, or restrictive cardiomyopathy, et. al.)

Question 117

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Seconary hyperparathyroidism

Answer 117

Most common/important associations: **Hypocalcemia** caused by chronic kidney failure

Question 118

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Sexually transmitted disease

Answer 118

Most common/important associations: Chlamydia

Question 119

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: SIADH

Answer 119

Most common/important associations: Small cell carcinoma of the lung

Question 120

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Site of diverticula

Answer 120

Most common/important associations: Sigmoid colon

Question 121

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Site of metastasis

Answer 121

Most common/important associations: 1.) Regional lymph nodes 2.) Liver

Question 122

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Sites of atherosclerosis

Answer 122

Most common/important associations: Abdominal aorta \< coronary \< popliteal \< carotid

Question 123

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Stomach cancer

Answer 123

Most common/important associations: Adenocarcinoma

Question 124

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels

Answer 124

Most common/important associations: Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)

Question 125

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: t(14;18)

Answer 125

Most common/important associations: Follicular lymphomas (bcl-2 activation)

Question 126

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: t(8;14)

Answer 126

Most common/important associations: Burkitt's lymphoma (c-myc activation)

Question 127

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: t(9;22)

Answer 127

Most common/important associations: Philadelphia chromosome, CML (bcr-abl hybrid)

Question 128

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Temporal arteritis

Answer 128

Most common/important associations: Risk of ipsilateral blindness due to thrombosis of ophthalmic artery

Question 129

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Testicular tumor

Answer 129

Most common/important associations: Seminoma

Question 130

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Thyroid cancer

Answer 130

Most common/important associations: Papillary carcinoma

Question 131

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Tumor in women

Answer 131

Most common/important associations: Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent)

Question 132

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Tumor in infancy

Answer 132

Most common/important associations: Hemangioma

Question 133

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Tumor of the adrenal medulla (adults)

Answer 133

Most common/important associations: Pheochromocytoma (usually benign)

Question 134

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Tumor of the adrenal medulla (kids)

Answer 134

Most common/important associations: Neuroblastoma (malignant)

Question 135

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Type of Hodgkin's

Answer 135

Most common/important associations: Nodular sclerosis (vs. mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)

Question 136

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Type of non-Hodgkin's

Answer 136

Most common/important associations: Diffuse large cell

Question 137

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: UTI

Answer 137

Most common/important associations: E. coli, Staphylococcus saprophyticus (young women)

Question 138

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Viral encephalitis

Answer 138

Most common/important associations: HSV

Question 139

# Give the most common/important Association for each Disease/Finding Disease/finding: Vitamin deficiency (in USA)

Answer 139

Most common/important associations: Folic acid (pregnant women are at high risk; body stores only 3- to 4-month supply)