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