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USMLE rapid review
USMLE rapid review from First Aid
Question | Answer |
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often precedes squamous cell carcinoma | Actinic keratosis |
Primary adrenocortical deficiency | Addison's disease |
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, cafe-au-lai sports, short stature, young girls | Albright's syndrome |
Guillain-Barre (INCREASED protein in CSF with only modest increase in cell count) | Albuminocytologic dissociation |
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness | Alport's syndrome |
Anti-basement membrane antibodies | Goodpasture's syndrome |
Anticentromere antibodies | Scleroderma (CREST) |
Anti-double-stranded DNA antibodies (ANA antibodies) | SLE (type 3 hypersensitivity) |
Anti-epithelial cell antibodies | Pemphigus vulgaris |
Antigliadin antibodies | Celiac disease |
Antihistone antibodies | Drug-induced SLE |
Anti-IgG antibodies | Rheumatoid arthritis |
Antimitochondrial antibodies | Primary biliary cirrhosis |
Antineutrophil antibodies | Vasculitis |
Antiplatelet antibodies | Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura |
Arachnodactylyl | Marfan's syndrome |
Argyll Robertson pupil | Neurosyphilis |
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation | Arnold-Chiari malformation |
Aschoff bodies | Rheumatic fever |
Atrophy of the mammillary bodies | Wernicke's encephalopathy |
Auer rods | Acute myelogenous leukemia (espec the promyelocytic type) |
Autosplenectomy | Sickle cell anemia |
Babinski's sign | UMN lesion |
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa | Rheumatoid arthritis |
"Bamboo spine" on x-ray | Ankylosing spondylitis |
Bartter's syndrome | Hyperreninemia |
Basophilic stippling of RBCs | Lead poisoning |
Defective dystrophin, less severe than Duchenne's | Becker's muscular dystrophy |
LMN CN VII palsy | Bell's palsy |
Bence Jones proteins | Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine), Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) |
IgA nephropathy | Berger's disease |
Defect in platelet adhesion | Bernard-Soulier disease |
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis | Sarcoidosis |
Birbeck granules on EM | Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma) |
Bloody tap on LP | Subarachnoid hemorrhage |
"Blue bloater" | chronic bronchitis |
Blue-domed cysts | Fibrocystic change of the breast |
Blue sclera | Osteogenesis imperfecta |
Boot-shaped heart on x-ray | Tetralogy of Fallot; RVH. |
Bouchard's nodes | Osteoarthritis (PIP swelling Secondary to osteophytes) |
Boutonniere deformit | Rheumatoid arthritis |
Branching rods in oral infection | Actinomyces israelii |
"Brown tumor" of bone | Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts: 1)Hyperparathyroidism 2) OSteitis fibrosa cystica (von Recklinghausen's disease) |
X-linked agammaglobulinemia | Bruton's disease |
Posthepatic venous thrombosis | Budd-Chiari syndrome |
Small/medium-artery vasculitis | Buerger's disease |
8:14 translocation; associated with EBV; "starry sky" appearance on histology | Burkitt's lymphoma |
Burton's lines | Lead poisoning (Basophilic stipling of RBCs too) |
c-ANCA, p-ANCA | Wegner's granulomatosis, microscopic polyangiitis |
Cafe-au-lait spots on skin | Neurofibromatosis |
Gas emboli | Caisson disease |
Calf pseudohypertrophy | Duchenne's muscular dystrophy |
Cell-Exner bodies | Granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary |
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy | Chagas' disease |
Cerebriform nuclei | Mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma) |
Trypanosome infection | Chagas' disease |
Chancre vs Chancroid | Chancre - Primary syphillis (Treponema) - NOT painful & Chancroid - Haemophilus ducreyi YES PAINFUL |
Charcot's triad | *Multiple sclerosis: 1) nystagmus, 2) intention tremor, 3) scanning speech *Cholangitis 1)Jaundice, 2)RUQ pain, 3)Fever |
Charcot-Leyden crystals | Bronchial asthma (eosinophil membranes) |
Phagocyte deficiency | Chediak-Higashi disease |