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anti-centromere antibodies
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scleroderma (CREST)
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anti-desmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
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pemphigus vulgaris
(blistering) |
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anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies
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Goodpasture's basement
(glomerulo-nephritis & lung hemorrhage) |
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anti-histone antibodies
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SLE drug-induced
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anti-IgG antibodies
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rheumatoid arthritis
(systematic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity) |
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anti-mitochondrial antibodies
AMAs |
1ry biliary cirrhosis
female, cholestasis, portal hypertension |
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anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies
ANCAs |
vasculitis
Wegener's microscopic polyangiitis glomerulo-nephritis |
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anti-nuclear antibodies (ANAs)
anti-Smith anti-dsDNA |
SLE
(type III hypersensitivity) |
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anti-platelet antibodies
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ITP
idiopathic thrombo-cyto-penic purpura (bleeding diathesis) |
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anti-topo-isomerase antibodies
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diffuse systemic scleroderma
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anti-trans-glut-aminase /
anti-gliadin antibodies |
celiac dx
(diarrhea, distention, wt loss) |
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azuro-philic granular needles in leukemic blasts
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Auer rods
AML - acute myelogenous leukemia especially the promyelocytic type |
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bamboo spine on x-ray
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ankylosing spondylitis
chronic inflammatory arthritis HLA-B27 |
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basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
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Howell-Jolly bodies
splenectomy or nonfn'l spleen |
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basophilic stippling of RBCs
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lead poisoning or
sideroblastic anemia |
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bloody tap on LP
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sub-arach-noid hemorrhage
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'boot-shaped' heart on x-ray
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Tetralogy of Fallot, RVH
R vent hypertrophy |
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branching gram + rods
with sulfur granules |
Actinomyces israelii
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bronchogenic apical lung tumor
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Pancoast's tumor
compresses sympathetic ganglion causes Horner's syndrome |
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'brown' tumor of bone
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hemorrhage (hemosiderin)
--> brown colour of osteolytic cysts due to: 1) hyper-para-thyroid-ism 2) osteitis fibrosa cystica (von Recklinghausen's dx of bone) |
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cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
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Chagas' dx
Trypanosoma cruzi |
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cellular crescents in
Bowman's capsule |
rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulo-nephritis
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'chocolate cyst' of ovary
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endometriosis
freq involves both ovaries |
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circular grouping of dark tumor cells
surrounding pale neurofibrils |
Homer Wright rosettes
neuro-blastoma medullo-blastoma retino-blastoma |
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colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas
in lungs |
cystic fibrosis
CFTR mutation in Caucasians resulting in fat-soluble vit defy's mucous plugs |
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degeneration of dorsal column nerves
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Tabes dorsalis
3ry syphilis |
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depigmentation of neurons
in substantia nigra |
Parkinson's dx
basal ganglia disorder rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia |
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desquamated epithelium casts
in sputum |
Curschmann's spirals
bronchial asthma --> whorled mucous plugs |
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disarrayed granulosa cells
in eosinophilic fluid |
Call-Exner bodies
granulosa - theca cell tumor of the ovary |
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dysplastic squamous cervical cells
with nuclear enlargement and hyper-chromasia |
koilocytes
HPV predisposes to cervical cancer |