Vascular pathology

Question 1

most common form of vasculitis in older adults

Answer 1

temporal (giant cell) arteritis

Question 2

carotid artery

Answer 2

temporal (giant cell) arteritis

Question 3

blindness

Answer 3

temporal (giant cell) arteritis

Question 4

vasculities of aortic arch

Answer 4

takayasu arteritis

Question 5

weak or absent pulse of the upper extremity

Answer 5

takayasu arteritis

Question 6

Young adult vasculitis

Answer 6

polyarteritis nodosa

Question 7

Hepatitis B Ags

Answer 7

polyarteritis nodosa

Question 8

coronary artery vasculitis

Answer 8

kawasaki disease

Question 9

erthmetous rash on palms and soles, strawberry tongue, cervical lymph nodes

Answer 9

kawasaki disease

Question 10

vasculitis associated with digits and smoking

Answer 10

Buerger disease

Question 11

vasculitis involves with nasopharynx, lungs, and kidneys

Answer 11

Wegeners

Question 12

microscopic polyanginitis

Answer 12

involves lung and kidney
p-ANCA
no granulomas

Question 13

churg-strauss

Answer 13

eosinophils
p-ANCA
granulomas

Question 14

fatty streak

Answer 14

lipids are oxidized and then consumed by macrophages via scavenger receptors, resulting in foam cells
seen in atherosclerosis

Question 15

factors for developing hyaline arteriolosclerosis

Answer 15

1. benign hypertension

2. diabetes

Question 16

malignant hypertension

Answer 16

hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis

Question 17

aortic dissection requirements

Answer 17

HTN

inherited defects in CT

Question 18

sharp, tearing chest pain that radiates to the back

Answer 18

aortic dissection

Question 19

tertiary syphilis

Answer 19

Thoracic aneurysm

Question 20

Tree barking

Answer 20

thoracic aneurysm

Contraction of fibrous scars with intervening segments of intima

Question 21

pulsatile abdominal mass

Answer 21

abdominal aneurysm

Question 22

abdominal aortic aneurysm location

Answer 22

below renal arteries but above the aortic bifurcation

occurs due to atherosclerosis

Question 23

benign tumor comprised of blood vessels

most often involves skin and liver

Answer 23

hemangioma

Question 24

Vinyl chloride, arsenic, thorotrast

Answer 24

hepatic angiosarcoma

malignant

Question 25

karposi sarcoma classification

Answer 25

1. Older Easter European males- tumor in skin, surgical removal
2. AIDS- antiretroviral agents
3. Transplant recipients- decreasing immunosuppression
4. African- chemotherapy

Question 26

Monckeberg medial calcific sclerosis

Answer 26

Calcification of the media of medium sized arteries
Non obstructive
Not clinically significant- seen as incidental finding in x-ray or mammography

Question 27

Superior vena cava syndrome

Answer 27

Neoplasm compresses and invades with cyanosis and dilation of the veins of the head, neck, and arms

Question 28

Interiofr vena cava syndrome

Answer 28

Neoplasm compresses or penetrates renal, hepatitc, or adrenal cortex

Question 29

lymphedema praecox

Answer 29

edema starting in the feet and slowly accumulating throughout life

Question 30

Bacillary angiomatosis

Answer 30

Opportunistic infection of AIDS
Vascular lesions in liver and spleen - bacillary pellosis

Barnoella species

Question 31

Juvenille hemangioma

Answer 31

Strawberry type capillary hemangioma of the skin in newborns

Question 32

Pyogenic granuloma

Answer 32

Skin or gingival or oral mucosae

Question 33

Granuloma gravidarum

Answer 33

pregnancy tumor- hemangioma

Question 34

Cavernous hemangioma

Answer 34

large, less circumscribed, and more frequently involves deep structures than capillary hemangiomas.

Question 35

Cavernous lymphangioma

Answer 35

In children in the neck or axilla and retroperitoneum.
Massively dilated, cystic lymphatic space
In Turner syndrome

Question 36

Glomus tumor

Answer 36

benign, painful tumor

most commonly distal digit- small, slightly elevated, rounded