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Diseases & Findings
USMLE Quizlet
Disease | Findings |
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Anasarca | Minimal changes diseases |
Addison's Disease | Primary Adrenocortical deficiency |
AFP Increase | neural tube defects malignancy |
Amnion nodosum | renal agenesis |
Aneurysmal nodules | Polyarteritis nodosa |
Anosmia | Kallman's Syndrome |
Anterior vermian atrophy | alcoholism |
Arachnodactyly | Marfan's |
Arnold Chiary Malformation | Cerebellar tonsil herniation |
Atypical lymphocytes | EBV |
Bacterial conjunctivitis pathogens | S. aureus; strep. Pneumo; hemophilus aegyptius |
Barrett's esophagus | columnar metaplasia of lower esophagus; risk of adenocarcinoma |
Basophilic stippling of RBC | lead poisoning |
Bell's Palsy | CN7; could be from lyme's and herpes |
Berger's disease | IgA nephropathy |
Berry Aneurysm | circle of Willies (subarachnoid bleed) |
Bilateral breast cancer | lobular carcinoma |
Bilateral renal cell carcinoma | von Hippo Lindau |
Bloody nipple discharge | Intraductal papilloma |
Boot shaped heart | Tetralogy of Fallot |
Boutonniere's deformity | Rheumatoid arthritis |
Broca's aphasia | 1. motor aphasia; 2. comprehension intact |
Bronchiolitis | RSV |
Brudzinski's sign | meningitis; flex the neck and legs |
Buerger's Disease | acute inflammation of small and medium arterities; painful ischemia |
Burkitt's lumphoma | EBV, small non-cleaved cell lumphonma |
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy | Chaga's disease |
Chaga's disease characteristcs | Trypanosoma cruzei; sleeping disease |
Caisson Disease | gas emboli |
Carbon monoxide poisoning | Hyperemia all over body; edema and necrosis of globus pallidus |
Painless Chancre | 1st stage syphilis; painless firm ulcer |
Cherry-red spot on macula | Tay-sachs; 50% of Miemann-pick |
Cheyne-stokes Breathing | Cerebral lesion |
Chocolate cysts | endometriosis |
Cholestrerole clefts | atherosclerosis |
Chordae tendinae short and fused | Rheumatic heart disease |
Chvostek's Sign | Hypocalcemia facial spasm in tetany; facial nerve (CN7) involvement |
Clue cells | Gargnerella vaginalis; trichomonas |
Codman's triangle | osteosarcoma |
Coin lesion in the lung | pulmonary harmartoma |
Cold thyroid nodules | colloid cyst or thyroid adenoma |
Concentric laminar intima fibrosis of the small arteries of lung | Primary Pulmonary Hypertension |
Condyloma lata | Secondary syphilis |
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia | 21-hydroxylase deficiency; virilism: virilism; no cortisol; salt loss; hypotension |
Conn's Syndrome | primary aldosteronism |
Cori's disease | glycogen storage disease |
Cotton wood spots | hypertension |
Creutzfeldt-jakob disease | Prion infection; cerebellar and cerebral degeneration |
Crigler-Najjar Syndrome | Congenital hyperbiliraubinemia |
Crohn's Disease | Skip lesion; ileocecum; granulomas; lymphocytic infiltrate |
Ulcerative colitis | limited to colon; colon cancer risk |
Croup | parainfluenza virus |
Depigmentation of substantia nigra | Parkinson's disease |
DiGeorges Syndrome | Thymic hypoplasia; T-cell deficiency |
Dopamine receptors | Schizophrenia |
Double bubble sign on ultra sound | Down syndrome; duodenal atresia |
Dressler's syndrome | Post MI fibrinous pericarditis |
Ectopia lentis | Marfan's |
Edward's Syndrome | Trysomy 18; rocker-bottom; low ears; heart disease |
Ewing's Sarcoma | undifferentiated round-cell bone tumor |
Fanconi's syndrome | impaired proximal tubular reabsorption secondary to lead poisoning or tetracycline |
Fanconi's syndrome characteristics | glycosuria;hyperphosphaturia; aminoaciduria; systemic acidosis |
FAT RN | TTP (Fever; Anemia; Thrombocytopenia; Renal failure; Neuro problems) |
Appendicitis | Fecalith |
Felty's syndrome | RNs (rheumatoid arthritis; neutropenia; splenomegaly) |
FEV1/FVC | COPD |
Frontal bossing | Sickle Cell anemia |
Fungal balls in lung | aspergillus |
Gaucher's Disease | Lysosomal Storage Disease; anemia; hepatosplenomegaly; glucocerebrosidase deficiency; |
Gilbert's Syndrome | benign congenital hyperbilirubinemia (unconjugated) |
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | Deficiency of dystrophin protein; X-linked recessive |
Guillain-Barre | Idiopathic polyneuritis (ascending muscle weakness and paralysis; usually self limiting) |
Hashimoto's thyroiditis | autoimmune hypothyroidism |
Bouchard's node | osteoarthritis (PIP) |
Heberden's nodes | Osteoarthritis (DIP) |
Heinz Bodies; non-immune hemolytic anemia | G6PD Deficiency |
Henoch-Schonlein purpura | hypersensivity vasculitis |
Hereditary spherocytosis | RBC cytoskeleton deficit; most commonly Spectrin |
Heterophil antibodies indicates what disease | infectious mono |
Hirschprung's disease | aganglionic megacolon |
HLA-b27 | Ankylosing spondylitis; psoriasis; IBD; Reiter's syndrome |
Honeycomb lung | Pulmonary fibrosis |
Horner's syndrome | ptosis; miosis; anhidrosis (lesion of cervical sympathetic nerves often secondary to Pancoast tumor) |
Huntington's Disease | Progressive degeneration of caudate nucleus; putamen & frontal cortex; Alzheimer's |
Hyaline thrombi | TTP |
Hypersegmented PMN | megaloblastic anemia |
hypochromic mycrocytic RBCs | iron deficiency anemia |
IgM against IgG | Rheumatoid factor |
Dopamine receptors | Parkinson's |
Kaposi's sarcoma | malignant vascular tumor (HHV8 in homosexual men) |
Kaussmaul Breathing | acidosis |
kawasaki Disease | Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome |
Kernig's sign | meningitis |
Keyser-fleischer ring | Wilson's disease; copper build-up |
Klinefelter's Syndrome | 47 pairs; XXY |
Defervescence | body temperature abatement; maculopapular rash with defervescence |
Eggshell calcification of lymph Nodes | Silicosis; coal workers' pneumoconiosis |
EKG for pericardial effusion | varying T-wave; axis change every other beat; wandering baseline |
SIADH First line treatment | Restrict free water |
Tuberculosis CXR | cavitary lesions involving upper lobes |
Buccal Mucosa sore 1CM in smokers; can't be rubbed off | leukoplakia; oral cancer |
First response Immunoglobulin for infections | IgM |
Pansystolic murmur | usually indicates cordae tendonae rupture of a valve |
Magnesium toxicity | Calcium gluconate |
Migraine headache nerve | trigeminal |
Blow out fracture at the ER | immediate Ophthalmologist consult |
Metabolic acidosis therapy | ethanol, hemodialysis, supportive therapy |
Lachman's sign | ACL Tear; anterior drawer test |