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WVSOM FA -- 10
WVSOM -- First Aid Classic Labs/Findings Page 4
Question | Answer |
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Renal epithelial casts in urine | acute toxic/viral nephrosis |
Rhomboid crystals, positively bifringent | pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate) |
Rib notching | coarctation of the aorta |
Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells (“starry sky” appearance on histology) | Burkitt’s lymphoma (t[8 |
Silver-staining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neurons | Pick bodies (Pick’s disease: progressive dementia, similar to alzheimers) |
Small granulomatous lesion in lungs (can calcify) | Ghon focus (Primary TB: mycobacterium bacilli) |
Small, round RBC inclusions | Heinz bodies (G6PD deficiency, α-thalassemia, chronic liver disease) |
“soap bubble” on x-ray | Giant cell tumor of bone (generally benign) |
“Spikes” on basement membrane, “dome-like” endothelial deposits | Membranous glomerulonephritis (may progress to nephritic syndrome) |
Stacks of red blood cells | Rouleaux formation (high ESR: multiple myloma) |
Stippled vaginal epithelial cells | “clue cells” (gardnerella vaginalis) |
“tennis-racket”-shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in langerhans cells | Birbeck granules (histiocytosis X: eosinophilic granuloma) |
Thrombi made of white/red layers | Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus, layers of platelets/RBCs) |
“thumb sign” on lateral x-ray | Epiglottitis (H. influenzae) |
Thyroid-like appearance of kidney | chronic bacterial pyelonephritis |
“Tram-track” appearance on LM | membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis |
Triglyceride accumulation in liver cell vacuoles | fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome) |
WBCs that look “smudged” | CLL (almost always B cell |
“Wire loop” glomerular appearance on LM | Lupus nephropathy |
Yellow CSF | xanthochromia (subarachnoid hemorrhage) |