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WVSOM FA -- 11
WVSOM -- First Aid Key Associations Page 1
Question | Answer |
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Actinic (solar) keratosis | squamous cell carcinoma |
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury | Cushings ulcer (increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretion) |
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns | curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa) |
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon | skip lesions (Crohn’s disease: autoimmune) |
Aneurysm, dissecting | HTN |
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta | atherosclerosis |
Aortic aneurysm, ascending | Tertiary syphilis |
Atrophy of the mammillary bodies | Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion) |
Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage) | sickle cell anemia (HbS) |
Bacteremia/pneumonia (IV drug user) | S. aureus |
Bacteria associated with stomach cancer | H. pylori |
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly) | S. pneumoniae |
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids) | Group B streptococcus (newborns), S. pneumoniae/N. meningitides (kids) |
Benign melanocytic nevus | spitz nevus (most common in first two decades) |
Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency | Bernard-soulier disease (defect in platelet adhesion) |
Brain tumor (adults) | supratentorial: mets > astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) > meningioma > schwannoma |
Brain tumor (kids) | infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum) |
Breast Cancer | infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in th US, 1 in 9 women will develop breast CA) |
Breast mass | 1. Fibrocystic change 2. Carcinoma (post menopausal) |
Breast tumor (benign) | fibroadenmoa |
Bug in debilitated, hospitalized pneumonia patient | Klebsiella |
Cardiac primary tumor (kids) | rhabdomyoma |
Cardiac manifestation of lupus | libman-sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting mitral) |
Cardiac tumor (adults) | 1. Metastasis 2. Primary myxoma 94:1 left to right atrium |
Cardiomyopathy | dilated cardiomyopathy (40% are familial) |