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USMLE rapid review from First Aid

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