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Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly, (also high D dimer, CHF without JVD)
Budd-Chiari syndrome
Achilles tendon xanthoma
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia)
Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints
Marfan's (fibrillin defect)
Athlete with polycythemia
Erythropoietin injection
Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss
Pott's (TB to the vertebrae)
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis
Sarcoid
Blue sclera
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Bluish line on gingiva
Burton's line - lead poisoning
Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis, (also increased hat size, fracture, increased alk phos)
Paget's
Bounding pulses, diastolic hear murmur, head bobbing
Aortic regurg
Café-au-lait spots, Lisch nodules
NF (1 = optic glimoas and pheo, 2 = acoustic Schwannomas)
Café-au-lait spots, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty
McCune-Albright syndome (G protein problem)
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
Cherry-red spot on macula
Tay-Sachs, Niemann-Pick, central retinal artery occlusion
Chest pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI
Dressler's (autoimmune post-MI)
Child uses arms to stand up from squat
Gower's sign (Duchenne's)
Child with fever develops red rash on face that spreads to body
Slapped cheek - B19
Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration
Huntington's
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia, fatigue, painful cramps
McArdle's (muscle phosphorylase deficiency)
Cold intolerance
Hypothyroidism
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (MS or stroke)
Continuous machinery heart murmur
PDA
Cutaneous/dermal edema due to CT expansion
Myxedema
Dark purple skin / mouth nodules
Kaposi's sarcoma
Deep, labored breathing / hyperventilation
Kussmaul breathing, DKA
Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea
Pellagra (B3 / niacin deficiency)
Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, polyneuropathy
Wet beriberi (B1 / thiamine deficiency)
Dog or cat bite resulting in infection
Pasteurella multocida (local cellulitis)
Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis
Sjogren's syndrome
Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis (smooth tongue), iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Elastic skin, hypermobility of joints
Ehler-Danlos (type III collagen)
Enlarged. hard left supraclavicular node
VIrchow's node (abdominal met)
Erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, atypical T cells
Sezary syndrome (cutaneous T cell lymphoma)
Facial muscle spasm upon tapping
Chvostek's sign (hypocalcemia)
Fat, female, fertile, forty
Gallstones
Fever, chills, headache, myalgia following antibiotic treatment for syphillis
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release)
Fever, cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, diffuse rash, Koplick spots
Measles
Fever, night sweats, weight loss
B symptoms or TB
Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
Peyronie's disease
Gout, MR, self-mutilating behavior in a boy
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, X-linked recessive)
Green-yellow rings around peripheral iris
Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson's disease)
Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth, feet and hands
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Hepatosplenomegaly, osteoporosis, neurologic symptoms, crinkled cytoplasm
Gaucher's disease (glucocerebrosidase deficiency)
Hereditary nephritis, sensorineural hearing loss, cataracts
Alport's syndrome (type IV collagen)
Hypercoagulability leading to thrombophlebitis
Trousseau's sign (adenocarcinoma of pancreas or lung)
Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility
Kluver-Bucy syndrome (bilateral amygdala)
HTN, hypoK, metabolic alkalosis
Conn's (1* hyperaldosterone)
Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia
Blue bloater (chronic bronchitis)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Nonpainful = syphillis. Painful with exudate = chancroid
Infant with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, neurodegeneration
Niemann-Pick disease (genetic sphingomyelinase deficiency)
Infant with hypoglycemia, failure to thrive, and hepatomegaly
Cori's disease (debranching enzyme deficiency, no glycogenolysis) or Von Gierke's
Infant with microcephaly, rocker-bottom feet, clenched hands, and structural heart defect
Edward's syndrome (Trisomy 18)
Jaundice, RUQ pain, fever
Charcot's triad (ascending cholangitis)
Keratin pearls
Squamous cell carcinoma
Large rash with bull's eye appearance
Erythema chronicum migrans from Ixodes tick bite (Lyme)
Lucid interval after TBI
Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal artery)
Male child, recurrent infections, no mature B cells
Bruton's disease (X-linked agammaglobulinemia)
Mucosal bleeding and prolonged bleeding time
Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (defect in platelet aggregation due to lack of GpIIb/IIIa)
Multiple colon polyps, osteomas / soft tissue tumors, impacted / supernumary teeth
Gardner's syndrome
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing GN
Wegner's (c-ANCA) and Goodpasture's (anti-GBM). Wegner's can also have upper airway involvement
Neonate with arm paralysis following difficult birth. Possible clavicle fx, probably large for gestational age
Erb-Duchenne palsy
No lactation postpartum, absent menstruation, cold intolerance
Sheehan's syndrome
Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, also bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia
MS (Charcot's)
Oscillating slow / fast breathing
Cheyne-Stokes (central apnea from CHF or increased ICP)
Painful blue fingers / toes, hemolytic anemia
Cold agglutinin disease (autoimmune from Mp or mono, from IgM)
Painful, pale, cold fingers / toes
Raynaud's syndrome (vasospasm)
Painful, raised red lesions on palms and soles
Osler's node (infective endocarditis)
Painless erythematous lesions on palms and soles
Janeway lesions (infective endocarditis)
Painless jaundice
Cancer at head of pancreas obstructing bile duct
Palpable purpura, joint pain, abdominal pain in a child
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (IgA vasculitis)
Pancreatic, pituitary, parathyroid tumors
MEN 1 (Wermer's)
Pink complexion, dypnea, hyperventilation
Pink puffer (emphysema)
Polyuria, acidosis, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances
Fanconi's syndrome (proximal tubular reabsorption defect)
Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
Horner's syndrome (usually with Pancoast tumor in apex of lung)
Pupil accommodates but doesn't react
Argyll Robertson pupil (neurosyphilis)
Rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascend, following GI infection
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Rash on palms and soles
2* syphilis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, coxsackie A
Recurrent colds, unusual eczema, high serum IgE
Job's syndrome
Red "current jelly" sputum in alcoholic or diabetic patients
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Red, itchy, swollen rash of nipple/areola
Paget's disease of the breast
Red urine in the morning, fragile RBCs
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (C' mediated damage, lack of CD55/59)
Renal cell carcinoma, hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma
von Hippel-Lindau diease
Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability
Parkinson's
Restrictive cardiomyopathy (juvenile = cardiomegaly), exercise intolerance
Pompe's disease (lysosomal glucosidase deficiency)
Retinal hemorrhages with pale centers
Roth's spots (bacterial endocarditis)
Severe jaundice in neonate
Crigler-Najjar syndrome (congenital unconj hyper bilirubinemia)
Severe RLQ pain with rebound tenderness
McBurney's sign
Short stature, increased incidence of tumors / leukemia, aplastic anemia
Fanconi's anemia (esp AML)
Single palm crease
Simian crease (Down's)
Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, infertility
Kartagener's syndrome (dynein)
Skin hyperpigmentation
Addison's
Slow progressive muscle weakness in boys
Becker's muscular dystrophy
Small, irregular red spots on buccal mucosa with blue-white centers
Koplick spots (measles)
Smooth, flat, moist white lesions on genitals
Condylomata lata (2* syphilis)
Splinter hemorrhages in fingernails
Bacterial endocarditis
Strawberry tongue
Scarlet fever, Kawasaki disease, TSS
Rusty sputum
Strep pneumo
Current jelly stool
Intussesseption
Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney
Turner syndrome (X0, short stature, webbed neck, lymphedema)
Sudden swollen/painful big toe joint, tophi
Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)
Swollen gums, mucous bleeding, poor wound healing, spots on skin
Scurvy (vit C deficiency: can't hydroxylate proline/lysine for collagen synthesis)
Swollen, hard, painful finger joints
OA (osteophytes on PIP (Bouchard) and DIP (Heberden)
Systolic ejection murmur (crescendo-decrescendo)
Aortic valve stenosis
Thyroid (medullary) and parathyroid tumors, pheochromocytoma
MEN 2A (Sipple)
Toe extension / fanning upon plantar scrape
Babinski (UMN lesion)
Unilateral facial drooping involving forehead
Bell's palsy (LMN CN VII)
Urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis in a male
Reiter's syndrome (reactive arthritis associated with HLA B27)
Vascular birthmark (port-wine stain)
Hemangioma (benign, associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome, in which case it's V1 distribution)
Vasculitis from exposure to endotoxin casuing glomerular thrombosis
Shwartzman reaction (follows second exposure to endotoxin)
Vomiting blood following esophagogastric lacerations
Mallory-Weiss syndrome (alcoholic and bulimic patients)
Waxy casts with very low urine flow
Chronic ESRD
WBC casts in urine
Acute pyelo
Weight loss, diarrhea, arthritis, fever, adenopathy
Whipple's disease (Tropheryma whippelii)
Worst headache of my life
USMLE Step 1 (or subarachnoid hemorrhage)
Anticentromere antibodies
Scleroderma (CREST)
Antidesmoglein (epithelial) antibodies
Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)
AntiGBM antibodies
Goodpasture's syndome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)
Antihistone antibodies
Drug-induced SLE (hydralazine, isoniazid, phenytoin, procainamide)
Anti-IgG antibodies
RA (systemic inflammation, joint pannus, boutonniere deformity) - IgM anti IgG
Antimitochondrial antibodies
1* biliary cirrhosis (female, cholestasis, portal HTN)
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)
Vasculitis (c-ANCA = Wegener's, p-ANCA = microscopic polyangiitis or Churg-Strauss syndrome)
Antinuclear antibodies
SLE (type III hypersensitivity)
Antiplatelet antibodies
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP - bleeding diathesis)
Anti-topoisomerase antibodies
Diffuse systemic scleroderma
Anti-transglutaminase/antigliadin/anti-endomysial antibodies
Celiac (diarrhea, distention, weight loss)
Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts
Auer rods (AML, esp promyelocytic type)
Bamboo spine on X-ray
Ankylosing spondylitis (chronic inflammatory arthritis, HLA B27)
Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBCs
Howell-Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)
Basophilic stipplling of RBCs
Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
Bloody tap on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Boot-shaped heart on X-ray
Tetralogy of Fallot, RVH
Branching gram + rods with sulfur granules
Actinomyces israelii
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor
Pancoast tumor (can cause Horner's)
Brown tumor of bone
Hemorrhage (hemosiderin) causes brown color of osteolytic cysts. Due to hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
Cellular crescents in Bowman's capsule
Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
Chocolate cyst of ovary
Endometriosis (usually bilateral)
Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Homer Wright rosettes (adrenal neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, Ewing's sarcoma)
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lungs
CF
Degeneration of dorsal column nerves
Tabes dorsalis - lose proprioception (3* syphilis)
Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra
Parkinson's
Desquamated epithelium casts in sputum
Curschmann's spirals (bronchial asthma, can result in whorled mucous plugs)
Disarrayed granulosa cells in eosinophilic fluid
Call-Exner bodies (granulosa-theca cell tumor of the ovary)
Dysplastic squamous cervical cells with nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia
Koilocytes (HPV) "perrinuclear cytoplasmic clearing"
Enlarged cells with intranuclear inclusion bodies
Owl's eye appearance of CMV - Cowdry A bodies
Enlarged thyroid cells with ground-glass nuclei
Orphan Annie nuclei, or "disbursed chromatin" (papillary carcinoma of the thyroid)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in liver cell
Mallory bodies (alcoholic liver disease)
Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in nerve cell
Lewy body (Parkinson's)
Eosinophilic globule in liver
Councilman body (toxic or viral hepatitis, often yellow fever)
Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal nerve cells
Rabies virus - negri bodies (Lyssavirus)
Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain
Senile plaques (Alzheimer's)
Giant B cells with bilobed nuclei with prominent inclusions (Owl's eye)
Reed-Sternberg cells (Hodgkin's lymphoma)
Glomerulus-like structure surrounding vessel in germ cells
Schiller-Duval bodies (yolk sac tumor)
Hair-on-end (crewcut) appearance on X-ray
"b-thalassemia, sickle cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoiesis). ""Hair on end"" means marrow expansion (skull)
hCG elevated
Choriocarcinoma, hydatidiform mole
Heart nodules (inflammatory)
Aschoff bodies = focal myocardial inflammation with giant cells (rheumatic fever)
Heterophile antibodies
Infectious mono (HBV). IgM that agglutinates sheep RBCs
Hexagonal, double-pointed, needle-like crystals in bronchial secretions
Bronchial asthma (Charcot-Leyden crystals: eosinophilic granules)
High level of D dimers
DVT, PE, DIC, Budd-Chiari (D dimer is fibrin breakdown products)
Hilar lymphadenopathy, peripheral granulomatous lesion in middle or lower lung lobes (can calcify)
Ghon complex (1* TB)
Honeycomb lung on X-ray
Interstitial fibrosis
Hypersegmented neutrophils
Megaloblastic anemia (B12, folate deficiency)
Hypochromic, microcytic anemia
Iron deficiency anemia, lead poisoning, thalassemia (HbF sometimes present)
Increased a-fetoprotein in amniotic fluid / maternal serum
Anencephaly, spina bifida (neural tube defects), gastrocesis, omphalmocele
Increased uric acid levels
Gout, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, tumor lysis syndrome, loop and thiazide diuretics
Intranuclear eosinophilic droplet-like bodies
Cowdry type A bodies (HSV or CMV)
Iron-containing nodules in alveolar septum
Ferruginous bodies (asbestosis: risk of mesothelioma)
Large lysosomal vesicles in phagocytes, immunodeficiency
Chediak-Higashi disease (congenital failure of phagolysosome formation)
Low serum ceruloplasmin
Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration)
Lumpy-bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Poststrep glomerulonephritis (IgG and C3b deposition)
Lytic (punched-out) bone lesions on X-ray
Multiple myeloma
Mammary gland (blue-domed) cyst
Fibrocystic change of the breast
Monoclonal antibody spike
1. Multiple myeloma (M protein, IgG or IgA) 2. Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (aging) 3. Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) 4. Primary amyloidosis
Monoclonal globulin protein in blood/urine
1. Bence Jones proteins (multiple myeloma, kappa or lambda light chains in urine) 2. Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM)
Mucin-filled cell with peripheral nucleus
Signet ring (gastric carcinoma)
Narrowing of bowel lumen on barium radiograph
String sign (Crohn's)
Needle-shaped, negatively birefringent crystals
Gout
Nodular hyaline deposits in glomeruli
Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules (diabetic)
Nutmeg liver
Chronic passive congestion of the liver due to right heart failure
Onion-skin periosteal reaction
Ewing's sarcoma (malignant round cell tumor)
Periosteum raised from bone, creating triangular area
Codman's triangle on X-ray (osteosarcoma, Ewing's, pyogenic osteomyelitis)
Podocyte fusion on EM
Minimal change disease (child, nephrotic)
Polished, ivory-like appearance of bone at cartilage erosion
Eburnation (OA resulting in bony sclerosis)
Protein aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of tau protein
Neurofibrillary tangles (Alzheimer's and CJD)
Pseudopalisading tumor cells on brain biopsy
GBM (cells may be called "serpentine")
RBC casts in urine
Acute glomerulonephritis
Rectangular, crystal-like, cytoplasmic inclusions in Leydig cells
Reinke crystals (Leydig cell tumor)
Renal epithelial casts in urine
Acute toxic/viral nephrosis
Rhomboid crystals, positively birefringent
Pseudogout
Rib notching
Coarctation of the aorta
Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells (starry sky)
Burkitt's lymphoma (t(8:14) c-myc, EBV)
Silver-staining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neurons
Pick bodies
Soap bubble in femur or tibia on X-ray
Giant cell tumor of bone (generally benign)
Spikes on basement membrane, dome-like endothelial deposits
Membranous glomerulonephritis (may progress to nephrotic)
Stacks of RBCs
Rouleax formation (high ESR, multiple myeloma)
Stippled vaginal epithelial cells
Clue cells (Gardenella vaginalis)
Tennis racket shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in Langerhans cells
Bibeck granules (histiocytosis X: eosinophilic granuloma)
Thrombi made of white/red layers
Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus, layers of platelets/RBCs)
Thumb sign on lateral X-ray
Epiglossitis (H flu)
Thyroid-like appearance of kidney
Chronic bacterial pyelo
Tram-track on LM
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Triglyceride accumulation in liver cell vacuoles
Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome)
WBCs that look smudged
CLL (almost always B cell, affects the elderly)
Wire loop glomerular appearance on LM
SLE nephropathy
Yellow CSF
Xanthochromia (subarachnoid hemorrhage)
brain cysts, seizures (parasite)
Taenia solium (cysticercosis)
liver cysts (parasite)
Echinococcus granulosus
B12 deficiency (parasite)
Diphyllobothrium latum
biliary tract disease, cholangiocarcinoma (parasite)
Clonorchis sinensis
hemoptysis (parasite)
Paragonimus westermani
portal hypertension (parasite)
Schistosoma mansoni
hematuria, bladder cancer (parasite)
Schistosoma haematobium
microcytic anemia (parasite)
Ancylostoma, Necator (hook worms)
perianal pruritis (parasite)
Enterobius