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What disease presents with polyuria, acidosis, growth failure and electrolyte imbalances?
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Falconi's syndrome (proximal tubule reabsorption defect)
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What injury presents with a positive anterior drawer sign on physical exam
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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury
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What syndrome presents with ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis? What is the cause?
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Horner's Syndrome; sympathetic chain lesion
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What is a pupil that accommodates but does not react? What disease is it associated with?
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Argyll Robertson pupil (neurosyphilis)
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A patient with a history of a GI or URI presents with rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends. What is the diagnosis?
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (autoimmune acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy)
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Patient presents with a rash on their palms and soles. What could the diagnosis be?
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Secondary syphilis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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Patient presents with recurrent colds, unusual eczema and high serum IgE
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Job's Syndrome (hyper-IgE syndrome: abnormality with neutrophil chemotaxis )
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Red "currant jelly" sputum
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Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Patient with red, itchy, swollen rash of the nipple/areola. What is the disease, why is it significant?
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Paget's disease of the Breast (underlying neoplasm)
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Patient complains of red urine in the morning
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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
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What disease is associated with renal cell carcinoma, hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma?
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von Hippel-Lindau disease (dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation)
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Patient presents with resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia and postural instability
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Parkinson's disease (nigrostriatal dopamine depletion)
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Patient with restrictive cardiomyopathy and exercise intolerance
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Pompe's disease (lysosomal glucosidase deficiency) NOTE: In the juvenile form, it is cardiomegaly)
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What are retinal hemorrhages with pale centers called? What are they a sign of?
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Roth's spots; bacterial endocarditis
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A neonate with severe jaundice. You suspect...
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Crigler-Najjar syndrome (congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)
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Your patient has severe RLQ pain and rebound tenderness. What is this called and what is it a sign of?
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McBurney's sign; appendicitis
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A patient with short stature, increased incidence or tumors/lukemia and aplastic anemia has...
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Falconi's anemia (genetically inherited; often progresses to AML).
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What is a single palm crease called and what is it associated with?
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Simian crease; Down syndrome
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A patient has situs inversus, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis. What is the syndrome and what is the cause?
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Kartagener's syndrome (dynein defect affecting cilia)
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What disease is associated with skin hyperpigmentation
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Addison's disease (primary adrenocortical insufficiency)
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Your young male patient has a slow, progressive muscle weakness...
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Becker's muscular dystrophy (x-linked, defective dystrophin; less severe than Duchenne's)
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Your patient has small, irregular red spots on buccal/lingual mucosa with blue-white centers. What are they, what are they a sign of?
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Koplik spots (measles)
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Small, nontender, erythematous lesions on palms/soles are called what? And what are they a sign of?
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Janeway lesions; infective endocarditis
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Your patient has smooth, flat, moist white lesions on their genitals because they have
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Secondary syphilis (condyloma lata)
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A patient has splinter hemorrhages in fingernails. What is this a sign of?
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Bacterial endocarditis
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Your patient has a "strawberry tongue." What are three possible reasons?
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Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome
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Your patient has streak ovaries, congenital heart disease and horseshoe kidney. What genetic defect to they have?
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Turner's syndrome (XO). Also associated with short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema)
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Doctor! My big toe joint has suddenly become swollen and painful!
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Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)
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Swollen gums, mucous bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin
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spots on skin
Scurvy (vit C deficiency; can't hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis) |
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Your patient has swollen, hard, painful finger joints. They have osteophytes on their PIP and DIP. Why, what are they called?
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Osteoarthritis; Bouchard's (PIP) and Heberden's (DIP)
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Crescendo-decrescendo systolic ejection murmur
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Aortic valve stenosis
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Thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal tumors. What syndrome?
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Sipple's syndrome (MEN2A)
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A patient with a painful ulcerated genital lesion with an exudate he has what? Caused by what?
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Chancroid; Haemophilus ducreyi
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Unilateral facial drooping
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Bell's palsy (LMN CNVII palsy)
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A male patient with what syndrome has urethritis, conjunctivitis and arthritis?
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Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis associated with HLA-B27
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A vascular birthmark called a port-wine stain is called what? It is associated with what syndrome?
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Hemangioma; Sturge-Weber syndrome
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What is the schwartzman reaction?
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A vasculitis from exposure to endotoxin causing glomerular thrombosis (it follows second exposure to endotoxin)
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Your patient is vomiting blood following esophagogastric lacerations
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Mallory-Weiss syndrome (alcoholics and eating disorders)
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Urine with waxy casts and very low flow is from a patient with...
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Chronic end-stage renal disease
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A patient has weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever and adenopathy if they have what disease? What is it caused by?
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Whipple's disease; Tropheryma whippelii
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Anticentromere antibodies
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CREST (scleroderma)
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Antidesmoglein antibodies
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Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
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Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease
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Goodpasture's syndrome (glomerulonephritis and lung hemorrhage)
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Antihistone antibodies
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Drug-Induced SLE
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Anti-IgG antibodies
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Rheumatoid arthritis (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity)
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Antimitochondrial antibodies
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Primary billiary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal hypertension)
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Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)
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Vasculitis (Wegner's, microscopic polyangiitis, glomerulonephritis)
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Antinuculear antibodies (ANA, anti-smith, anti-dsDNA)
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SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
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Antiplatlet antibodies
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
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Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
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Diffuse systemic scleroderma
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Anti-transglutaminase/ antigliadin antibodies
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Celiac disease (diarrhea, distention, weight loss)
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Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blases
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Auer rods (acute myelogenous leukemia: especially the promyelocytic type)
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Patient with "Bamboo spine" on x-ray
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Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis: HLA-B27)
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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBC
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Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
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Basophilic stippling of RBC
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Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
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Bloody tap on LP
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage
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"Boot shaped" heart on x-ray
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Tetralogy of Fallot, RVH
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Branching gram-positive rods with sulfur granules
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Actinomyces israelii
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What is a bronchogenic apical lung tumor called? What syndrome can is cause?
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Pancoast's tumor; It can compress the sympathetic ganglion and cause Hornor's syndrome
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Brown tumor of bone. Why is it brown? What causes it?
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Hemorrhage (hemosiderin) causes brown color of osteolytic cysts. Due to hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (von Recklinghausen's disease of bone)
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What disease is associate with cardiomegaly with apical atrophy? What is the cause?
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Chagas' Disease; Trypanosoma cruzi
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You see cellular crescents in Bowman's capsule. What is the diagnosis?
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Rapidly progressive cresentic glomerulonephritis
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If I have a "chocolate cyst" of the ovary, what do I have?
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Endometriosis
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What are Homer Wright rosettes? What are they associated with?
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Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils. Seen in neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma and retinoblastoma
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Your patient has colonies of mucoid pseudomonas in their lungs. What disease do they have?
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Cystic Fibrosis
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