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Disease/findings vs. Most common/important associations

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Disease/findings
Most common/important associat
Actinic (solar) keratosis   Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma  
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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury   Cushing's ulcer (increase ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretion)  
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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns   Culing's ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric muscosa)  
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Alterating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon   Skip lesion (Crohn's disease)  
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Aneurysm, dissecting   Hypertension  
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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta   Atherosclerosis  
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Aortic aneurysm, ascending   Marfan's syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)  
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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies   Wernicke's encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion  
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)   Sickle cell anemia (HbS)  
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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer   H. pylori  
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Bacterial meningitis (adult and elderly)   Neisseria meningitidis  
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Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)   Group B streptococcus (newborns), S. pneumoniae/Neisseria meningitidis (kids)  
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Benign melanocytic nevus   Spitz nevus (most common in first two decades)  
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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency   Bernard-Soulier disease (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand's factor)  
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Brain tumor (adults)   Supratentorial: mets > astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme) > meningioma > schwannoma  
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Brain tumor (kids)   Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)  
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Breast cancer   Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in the United States, 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer)  
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Breast mass   1. Fibrocystic change 2. Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)  
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Breast tumor (benign)   Fibroadenoma  
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Cardiac 1° tumor (kids)   Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis  
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Cardiac manifestation of lupus   Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)  
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Cardiac tumor (adults)   1. Metastasis 2. 1° myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium; "ball and valve")  
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation   Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus or syringomyelia)  
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Chronic arrhythmia   Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of emboli)  
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)   Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)  
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina   DES exposure in utero  
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Compression fracture   Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal woman; type II: elderly man or woman)  
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension   21-hydroxylase deficiency  
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Congenital cardiac anomaly   VSD  
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Congenital conjugated hyperilirubinemia (black liver)   Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)  
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Constrictive pericarditis   Tuberculosis (developing world); systemic lupus erythematosus (developed world)  
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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis   LAD > RCA > LCA  
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Cretinism   Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism  
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Cushing's syndrome   1. Corticosteroid therapy 2. Excess ACTH secretion by pituitary 3. Small cell lung carcinoma  
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Cyanosis (early; less common)   Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus  
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Cyanosis (late; more common)   VSD, ASD, PDA  
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Death in CML   Blast crisis  
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Death in SLE   Lupus nephropathy  
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Dementia   1. Alzheimer's disease 2. Multiple infracts  
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Demyelinating disease in young women   multiple sclerosis  
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DIC   Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burn trauma  
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Dietary deficit   Iron  
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Diverticulum in pharynx   Zenker's diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)  
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Ejection click   Aortic/pulmonic stenosis  
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Esophageal cancer   Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (U.S.)  
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)   S. aureus, B. cereus  
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)   Berger's disease (IgA nephropathy)  
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Gynecologic malignancy   Endometrial carcinoma (most common in U.S.); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)  
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Heart murmur, congenital   Mitral valve prolapse  
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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis   Mitral (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse), aortic (2nd affected in rheumatic fever)  
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Helminth infection (U.S.)   1. Enterobius vermicularis 2.Ascaris lumbricoides  
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Hematoma--epidural   Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)  
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Hematoma--subdural   Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)  
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Hemochromatosis   Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in CHF, "bronze diabetes," and increase risk of hepatocellular carcinoma)  
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Hepatocellular carcinoma   Cirrhotic liver (associated with hepatitis B and C)  
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Hereditary bleeding disorder   von Willebrand's disease  
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Hereditary harmless jaundice   Gilbert's syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)  
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HLA-B27   Ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis  
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HLA-DR3 or -DR4   Diabetes mellitus type 1, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE  
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Holosystolic murmur   VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation  
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Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis   Virchow's triad (results in venous thrombosis)  
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Hypertension, 2°   Renal disease  
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Hypoparathyroidism   Accidental excision during thyroidectomy  
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Hypopituitarism   Pituitary adenoma (usually benign tumor)  
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Infection 2° to blood transfusion   Hepatitis C  
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Infection in chronic granulomatous disease   Saphylococcus aureus, E. coli, Aspergillus (catalase positive)  
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Kidney stones   1. Calcium = radiopaque 2. Struvite (ammonium) = radiopaque (formed by urease- positive organisms such as Proteus vulgaris or Staphylococcus) 3. Uric acid = radiolucent  
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Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected L→ R becomes R→ L)   Eisenmenger's syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA; results in pulmonary hypertension/polycythemia)  
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Liver disease   Alcoholic cirrhosis  
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Lysosomal storage disease   Gaucher's disease  
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Male cancer   Prostatic carcinoma  
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Malignancy associated with noninfectious fever   Hodgkin's lymphoma  
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Malignant skin tumor   Basal cell carcinoma (rarely metastasizes)  
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Mental retardation   1. Down syndrome 2. Fragile X syndrome  
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Metastases to bone   Breast, lung, thyroid, testes, prostate, kidney  
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Metastases to brain   Lung, breast, skin (melanoma), kidney (renal cell carcinoma), GI  
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Metastases to liver   Colon, gastric, pancreatic, breast, and lunch carcinomas  
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Mitochondrial inheritance   Disease occurs in both males and females, inherited through females only  
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Mitral valve stenosis   Rheumatic heart disease  
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Mixed (UMN and LMN) motor neuron disease   ALS  
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Myocarditis   Coxsackie β  
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Neoplasm (kids)   1. ALL 2. Cerebellar medulloblastoma  
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Nephrotic syndrome (adults)   Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis  
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Nephrotic syndrome (kids)   Minimal change disease (associated with infection/vaccinations; treat with corticosteroids)  
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Neuron migration failure   Kallmann syndrome  
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Nosocomial pneumonia   Klebsiella, E. coli, Pseudomonas aerugimosa  
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Obstruction of male urinary tract   BPH  
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Opening snap   Mitral stenosis  
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Opportunistic infection in AIDS   Pneumocystis jiroveci (formerly carinii) pneumonia  
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Osteomyelitis   S. aureus  
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Osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease   Salmonella  
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Osteomyelitis with IV drug use   Pseudomonas, S. aureus  
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Ovarian metastasis from gastric carcinoma or breast cancer   Krukenberg tumor (mucin-secreting signet-ring cells)  
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Ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral   Serous cystadenoma  
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Ovarian tumor (malignant)   Serous cystadenocarcinoma  
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Pancreatitis (acute)   Gallstones, alcohol  
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Pancreatitis (chronic)   Alcohol (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)  
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Patient with ALL/CLL/AML?CML   ALL: child, CLL: adult > 60, AML: adult - 60, CML: adult 30-60  
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Pelvic inflammatory disease   Neisseria gonorrhoeae (monoarticular arthritis)  
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Philadelphia chromosome t(8;22) (ber-abl)   CML (may sometimes be associated with ALL/AML)  
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Pituitary tumor   1. Prolactinoma 2. Somatotropic "acidophilic" adenoma  
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Primary amenorrhea   Turner syndrome (45XO)  
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Primary bone tumor (adults)   Multiple myeloma  
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Primary hyperaldosteronism   Adenoma of adrenal cortex  
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Primary hyperparathyroidism   1. Adenomas 2. Hyperplasia 3. Carcinoma  
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Primary liver cancer   Hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, α-1 antitrypsin)  
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Pulmonary hypertension   COPD  
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Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities   Buerger's disease (strongly associated with tobacco)  
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Renal tumor   Renal cell carcinoma: associated with von Hippel-Lindau and adult polycystic kidney disease; paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTH, ACTH)  
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Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause   Cor pulmonale  
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S3 (protodiastolic gallop)   Increase ventricular filling (L→ R shunt, mitral regurgitation, LV failure [CHF])  
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S4 (presystolic gallop)   Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)  
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Secondary hyperparathyroidism   Hypocalcemia of chronic kidney disease  
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Sexually transmitted disease   Chlamydia (usually confected with gonorrhea)  
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SIADH   Small cell carcinoma of the lung  
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Site of diverticula   Sigmoid colon  
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Sites of atherosclerosis   Abdominal aorta > coronary > popliteal > carotid  
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Stomach cancer   Adenocarcinoma  
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Stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels   Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum (or pancreas)  
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t(14;18)   Follicular lymphomas (bcl-2 activation)  
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t(8;14)   Burkitt's lymphoma (c-myc activation)  
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t(9;22)   Philadelphia chromosome, CML (ber-abl fusion)  
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Temporal arteritis   Risk of ipsilateral blindness due to thrombosis of ophthalmic artery; polymyalgia rheumatica  
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Testicular tumor   Seminoma  
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Thyroid cancer   Papillary carcinoma  
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Tumor in women   Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent, not precancerous)  
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Tumor of infancy   Hemangioma (usually regresses spontaneously by childhood)  
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Tumor of the adrenal medulla (adults)   Pheochromocytoma (usually benign)  
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Tumor of the adrenal medulla (kids)   Neuroblastoma (malignant)  
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Type of Hodgkin's   Nodular sclerosis (vs. mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)  
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Type of non-Hodgkin's   Diffuse large cell  
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UTI   E. coli, Staphylococcus saprophyticus (young women)  
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Viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe   HSV-1  
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Vitamin deficiency (U.S.)   Folic acid (pregnant women are at high risk; body stores only 3- to 4-month supply; prevents neural tube defects  
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