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57 Cards in this Set
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The most characteristic feature of neoplasm in contrast to a reactive or inflammatory overgrowth
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Oncotic Control
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Which manifestation of neoplasmic growth is the most certain evidence it is malignant
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Invasie Growth
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Staging of Malignant neoplasm is based on
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Presence or absence of metastisis
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Loss of orderly maturation of epithelium is be definition
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Dysplasia
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The following abnormal pap smear demonstrated marked hyper chromatism and increased nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio of epithelial cells. These changed involed the full thickness of the epithelial and with penetration through basement membrane these changes are
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Carcinoma In Situ
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The undifferentiated pleomorphic cells found in many malignant neoplasms are decribed by the word
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Anaplastic
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A neoplasm composed of cells representing two germ cell layers is a
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Teratoma
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Multiple hematogenous matastases to the lung are most characteristic of carcinoma of the
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Prostate
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Which of the following neoplasms typically produces lymph node metastisis
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Carcinoma
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The chemical carcinigen, aflatoxin B1, induces
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Hepatocellular carcinoma
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Polycytemia is most commonly seen with
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Carcinoma of the Lung
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Carcinoembyonic antigen (CEA) is most characteristically present in the serum of
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Pt.'s w Carcinoma of the colon
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Carcinoma of the following has the lowests survival rate?
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Lung
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Hyperplastic arteriosclerosis is characteristis
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Malignant hypertention
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Temporal Arteritis is characterized by
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Granulomatous inflammation
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Takayasu Arteritis typically involves the
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Aorta
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Tobacco smoking is an important pathogen in
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Throboangitis Obliterans
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Perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (P-anca) suggest
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Microscopic Polyangitis
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Which one of the following is most often the cause of death cases of dissecting aneurysms
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Hemopericardium
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The most common cause of abdominal aortic aneurysms is
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Atherosclerosis
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Arteriossclerosis refers to a group of processes which
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Have in common the thickening and loss of elasticity of arterial wall
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Decreased risk for coranary artery disease is associated w increased levels of
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HDL, high density lipoprotiens
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The most common serious consequence of atheroscerosis is
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Ischemia from thrombosis involing the left coronary artery
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Coarctation of the aorta is associated with
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Turners Syndrome
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The Aorta is accessible to flow of blood from the right ventricle in
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Tetrology of Fallot
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Which of the following is most likely to produce cyanosis in the neonatal period
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Transposition of the Great vessels
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In congenital heart disease, te most common basis for cyanosis is
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Right-Left Shunt
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Which of the following developemental abnomalities is the most common
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VDS venticular Septal Defect
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In an infant, shunting through a ventricular septal defect will be related most to
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Relationship between systemic and pulmonary pressures
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In most instances, the cause of congenital heart disease is
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Unknown
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Pre employement physical, 18 year old white man, supine BP of 180/110 yet decreased femoral artery pulses bilaterally. Chest x-ray revealed nothching of underside of ribs and ECG was suggestive of left entricular hypertrophy, no other signs or symptoms. whats appropriate diagnosis
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Coartation of the Aorta
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When a person dies suddenly from a "Heart Attack:, the most likely event that led to sudden death is
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Cardiac Arrhythmias
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The most frequent cause of right sided heart failure in the absence of left sided heart failure is
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Pulmonary Disease
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Left-sided Heart failure frequently leads to right sided heart failure because
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Increased pulmonary arterial pressure strains the right ventricle
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Chronic passive congestion of the lower extremeties most often results from
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Right-sided Heart failure
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Which is pathognomonic of active rheumatic fever
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Aschoff Body
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In the initial attack of acute rheumatic fever, congestive cardiac failure results from
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Myocarditis
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The most frequent clinically significant residual(chronic) lesion of acute rheumatic fever is
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Mitral stenosis
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The organism most frequently responsible for subacute infective endocarditis is
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Streptoccocus Viridians
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Severly destroyed aortic cusp with attached friable vegetations is most charateristic of endocarditis due to
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Staphylococcus Aureus
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Hypertrophic subaortic stenosis is a form of
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Cardiomyopathy
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As a cause of infarction, the major segment of the coronary vasculature most frequently occluded is
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Left anterior descending branch
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The most common cause of sudden death from myocadial infarction is
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Arrhythmia
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Of the following the most frequent cause of death in the first week following a myocardial infarction is
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Congestive failure
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Of the following the most common cause of cardiac tamponade is
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Dissecting Aneurysm
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The incidence of consrictive pericarditis is highest in pt.'s w
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Tuberculosis
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The most common primary tumor of the heart is
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Myxoma
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Fibrinous Pericarditis is most likely to be associated with
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Uremia
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The basic structure of blood vessels can be modified to facilitate each of their functions. The list of the basic histological structures of all blood vessels is
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Endothelial, Tunica Media, Tunica Aventitia
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The free surface of the epicardium(pericardium) secretes fluid that reduces friction as the heart moves in the fibrous pericardium. The number of layers of cells making up the epicardium(pericardium) is
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ONE
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All of the following are true of the perkinjie fibers of the heart except:
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Abundant T tubule system
Correct answers include: Larger size Rich store of glycogen Abundant Mitochondria Sometimes bunucleate |
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Small Vasa Vasorum is found in which of the following
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Large Muscular veins
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The epithelium is classifled as simple stratified by the consideration of which of the following characteristics of cells
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Number of layers
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A cerical biopsy of a 24 yr old woman shows squamos epithelium lining the mucosal surface of the endocervical glands. This is an example of
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Metaplasia
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Which part of the microcirculation is most consistently involved in the permeability changes and exudation of acute inflammation
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Venules
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Which is the most indicative of irreversible tissue necrosis
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Presence of Neutrophils
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In Ischemic cell injury there is an
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Influx in Na+ and Ca++
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