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1. What variant of squamous cells carcinoma of the skin grows rapidly and regresses spontaneously
Keratoacanthoma
Supraspinatus - abducts the arm before the deltoid
Inc blood flow from AV shunts can cause high output heart failure
Inc alk phos - abnl bone architecture
2. What causes a lesion in the axillary nerve
Fracture of surgical neck - dislocation of the humerus - intramuscular injections
Outer arm
Loss of medial lumbrical fxn; 4th and 5th digits are clawed - when try to open hand - pinky and ring finger stay clawed
Gout
3. What are the common perpetrating infections for Reiters syndrome
Strawberry hemangioma
Inc CK - inc aldolase - and positive ANA and anti Jo -1 - steroids
Post GI infxn or chlamydia
Trauma
4. What causes hypercalcemia in pts with sarcoid
Elevated 1 alpha hydroxylase mediated vit D activation in epithloid macrophages
Melasma (chloasma)
Rigor mortis
Biceps
5. What runs the distance of the A band
Basal cell carcinoma - pearly papules - commonly with telangiectasias
False positives on syphillis test (RPR/VRDL) due to antiphospholipid antibodies - cross react with cardiolipin
Myosin
Medial 1.5 fingers - hypothenar eminence
6. small fluid containing blister seen in chickenpox
Condyloma acuminatum - caused by HPV
S100 - associated with sunligh exposure - fair skinned at risk - depth of tumor correlates with risk of mets - dark with irregular borders
Corneum - lucidum - granulosum - spinosum - basalis
Vesicle
7. What does lack of ATP cause
Metaphysis of long bones - distal femur
Rigor mortis
Ulnar nerve
Dermatomyositis
8. What is the tumor marker for melanoma - who is at risk - what correlates with risk of metastasis and What is the gross path
S100 - associated with sunligh exposure - fair skinned at risk - depth of tumor correlates with risk of mets - dark with irregular borders
Subclavius
Type III - RF
Ulnar nerve
9. anaplastic small blue cell malignant tumor - most common in boys < 15 - dz and prognosis
Ewings sarcoma - aggressive with early mets - but responsive to chemo
Condyloma acuminatum - caused by HPV
Xeropthalmia - xerostomia - arthritis
Ulnar nerve - adduction of thumb - extension of 4th and 5th fingers (lumbricals)
10. Thenar eminence - nerve and muscles
Pain in weight bearing joints at the end of the day and improving with rest
Ligand binding leads to muscle depol
Median - opponens pollicis - abductors pollicis brevis - flexor pollicis brevis
Chondrosarcoma
11. irregular areas of complete depigmentation - condition and cause
Parakeratosis
Vit D def - dec Ca - inc PTH - dec serum phos - reversible when vit D is replaced
Serum ca - phos - PTH are nl alk phos elevated
Vitiligo - dec number in melanocytes
12. In a fractured surgical neck of humerus or dislocation of humeral head - What is the nerve injury - motor deficit - sensory deficit
Asymmetric - swollen - red - painful joint - often MTP (podagra) - tophus formation on external ear - olecranon bursa - achilles tendon
Axillary - deltoid - skin over deltoid - flattened deltoid
Anti - histone
Atopic dermatitis - eczema
13. What are the systemic symptoms found in RA
< 2mc found in proximal tibia and femur - men < 25
Blow to the shoulder - trauma during delivery; limb hangs by side - medially rotated - forearm is pronated
Fracture of surgical neck - dislocation of the humerus - intramuscular injections
Fever - fatigue - pleuritis - pericarditis
14. knee trauma - nerve - motor and sensory def
Tibial - foot inversioon and plantarflexion; toe flexion - sole of foot is sensory
Embryologic - childbirth defect - cervical rib compression - atrophy of the thenar and hypothenar eminences - atrophy of interosseous muscles - sensory deficits of the medial side of the forearm and hand - disappearance of the radial pulse upon movin
Subclavius
Rigor mortis
15. yellow when parallel and blue when perpendicular
Pityriasis rosea
Gout
Flex the MCP joints and extend both the DIP and PIP joints
Cartilaginous by chondrocytes first - osteoclasts and osteoblasts later replace with women bone and remodel to lamellar bone - endochondrial ossification
16. What do pseudogout crystals appear like microscopically
Dermatomyositis
Supraspinatus - abducts the arm before the deltoid
Basophilic - rhomboid crystals - weakly birefringent
Superior glut - thigh abduction - pos trendelenburg - hip drops when standing on the opposite foot (standing on the side of the lesion)
17. What do dorsal interosseous muscles do
The dermis
Abduct the fingers
Supraspinatus - infraspinatus - teres minor - subscapularis - SItS
Polymyositis - shoulders - perifasicular inflammation
18. What causes ape hand
Erythema multiforme - can be macules - papules vesicles - target lesions -
Polymyaglia rheumatica associated with temporal (giant cell) arteritis
Fracture of surgical neck - dislocation of the humerus - intramuscular injections
Proximal median nerve lesion - loss of opponens pollicis muscle fxn leading to unopposoble thumb
19. common mole - benign
Psoriatic arthritis - occurs is less than 1/3 of psoriasis pts
SERMs - calcitonin - bisphosphates or pulsatile PTH for severe cases
Nevocellular nevus
Macule
20. Which muscle laterally rotates and adducts arm
Teres minor
Dec Ca - dec phos - nl alk phos - inc PTH - soft bones
Ischial spine - relieve pain during delivery
Plaque
21. Very superfiicial skin infection - honey colored crusting - very contagious - condition and organisms
Ligand binding leads to muscle depol
Nevocellular nevus
Lesioned by midshaft fracture of humerus
Impetigo - s aureus - s pyogenes
22. What are the bone mineral lab findings in paget's disease
Radial nerve becomes compressed in axilla
Axillary nerve
Elevated 1 alpha hydroxylase mediated vit D activation in epithloid macrophages
Serum ca - phos - PTH are nl alk phos elevated
23. What is a very specific test for lupus
Anti ds DNA - poor prognosis
Ulnar
Ischial spine - relieve pain during delivery
Myosin releases bound ADP and is displaced on the actin filament
24. Achondroplasia is a failure of what process which results in which characteristic findings
Upper trunk of brachial plexus
Flex the MCP joints and extend both the DIP and PIP joints
Failure of longitudinal growth (endochondrial ossification) leading to short limbs - membranous is unaffected - large head
Phosphorylates myosin light chain which leads to cross bridge formation
25. What kind of endocrine abnl are associated with McCune Albright
Precocious puberty
Adduct the fingers
Median nerve
Over deltoid
26. papule > 1cm seen psoriasis
Age - obesity and joint deformity
ACH esterase inhibitors - edrophonium test - improvement of sx after edro means the patient is underdosed
Men - needle shaped and negatively birefringent = yellow crystals under parallel light
Plaque
27. What is the characteristic appearance of bone - the common translocation - area of - and bones affected
Pagets dz - bone infarcts - radiation - familial retinoblastoma - codman's triangle or sunburst pattern from elevation of periosteum - poor prognsosis
Binds myosin head and releases actin filament allowing cross - bridge cycling and shortening to occur
Steroids
Onion skin - 11:22 - diaphysis of long bones - pelvis - scapula - ribs
28. warts on hands
Myasthenia gravis - autoAb against ACH receptors causing ptosis - diplopia - general weakness -
Verrucae vulgaris
Flat bone (skul - facial bones - axial skeleton) woven directly formed - no cartilage - later remodeled to lamellar
Palisading
29. What is the classic triad of reactive arthritis
Conjunctivitis and anterior uveitis - urethritis and arthritis
Patch
Post GI infxn or chlamydia
Pagets dz - bone infarcts - radiation - familial retinoblastoma - codman's triangle or sunburst pattern from elevation of periosteum - poor prognsosis
30. What does IM reveal in pemphigus vulgaris
Axilla
Antibodies around cells of the epidermis in a reticular or netlike pattern
NC migration
Urticaria
31. flat - greasy - pigmented - squamous epithelial proliferation with keratin - filled cyts (horn cysts) - looks pasted on...
Actin
Binds troponin C causing a conformational change leading to tropomyosin to move out of the way allowing for actin/myosin cycling
Parakeratosis
Seborrheic keratosis
32. Dermatomyositis places the pt at inc risk For what malignancy in particular
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Age - obesity and joint deformity
Lung
Proximal median nerve lesion - loss of opponens pollicis muscle fxn leading to unopposoble thumb
33. How is chondrosarcoma described
STD presents as a monarticular - migratory arthritis with an asynmetrical pattern - affected joint is painful - red and swollen
Binds myosin head and releases actin filament allowing cross - bridge cycling and shortening to occur
Papule
Expansile glistening mass within the medullary cavity
34. exotoxin destroys keratinocyte attachments in the stratum granulosum - fever - generalized erythematous rash with sloughing of the upper layers of the dermis - newborns and children
Staph scalded skin syndrome
Tear of the ACL
Palisading
Anti Smith
35. Loss of what muslces in Erbs causes the limb to hang by side
Large goints (knee)
Paralysis of abductors
Radial - BEST extensors - posterior arm and dorsal hand/thumb - wrist drop
Dermatomyositis
36. elevated skin lesion <1cm seen in acne vulgaris
Papule
Acanthosis nigcricans
Phosphate is liberated from the myosin head
Phosphorylates myosin light chain which leads to cross bridge formation
37. What development failure can results in albinism
Pseudogout
NC migration
Upper trunk of brachial plexus
Superior glut - thigh abduction - pos trendelenburg - hip drops when standing on the opposite foot (standing on the side of the lesion)
38. heliotrope rash 'shawl and face' rash - Gotton's papules - 'mechanic's hands'
Ankylosing spondylitis - uveitis - aortic regurg and bamboo spine
Men and women > 70 - senile osteporosis
Median nerve - same fingers but not on the hand
Dermatomyositis
39. Which muscle is the most common rotator cuff injury and What does it do
Supraspinatus - abducts the arm before the deltoid
Median nerve
Nl - decreased bone mass
Giant cell tumor (osteoclastoma) - double bubble or soap bubble
40. What are the thin lines along the Z line
Actin
Supraspinatus - abducts the arm before the deltoid
The dermis
Paralysis of lateral rotators
41. inflammatory lesions of subQ fat - usually on anterior shins - associated with coccidioidomycosis - histoplasmosis - TB - leprosy - streptoccocal infxn - sarcoid
Dec estrogen causes inc bone resorption - postmenopausal
Medial 1.5 fingers - hypothenar eminence
Teres minor
Erythema nodosum
42. What are the borders of the superficial branch of the radial nerve dermatone
Necrotizing fasciitis - anaerobic bacteria or S. pyogenes
EtOH metabolites compete for same excretion site in kidney as uric acid - causing dec uric acid secretion and subsequent buildup
Dorsal side of lateral hand - most of lateral surface of the thumb - no digits
Dermatitis herpetiformis
43. What are the lab findings in osteitis fibrosa cystica
In psoriasis - bleeding spots when scales are scraped off
Inc Ca - dec phos - inc alk phos - inc PTH - brown tumors
Ulnar nerve
Medial aspect
44. Sarcoid TX
Palisading
Steroids
AP depol opens voltage gated Ca channels - inducing NT release
Lesch - nyhan - PRPP excess - dec exretion of uric acid (thiazide) inc cell turnover - von Gierke's dz - 90% due to underexcretion - 10% to overproduction
45. What lesion causes wrist drop
NC migration
Posterior cord
Ulnar nerve - fracture of hook of hamate
Ischial spine - relieve pain during delivery
46. Macule greater than 1cm
Supraspinatus - infraspinatus - teres minor - subscapularis - SItS
Torn MCL
Patch
Down T tubule
47. What causes compression of the C7 nerve root
Keratoacanthoma
Subclavius
Cervical disk lesion
Medial forearm and arm to just under the axilla
48. What cancer in particular are associated with LE syndrome - what happens to symptoms with muscle use or ACH esterase inhibs
Small cell cancer of the lung - improve with muscle use - no change with ACHE inhibs
Loss of lateral lumbrical fxn - 2nd and 3d digits are clawed and can't extend
Opposition of thumb - dorsal/palmar 3.5 fingers sensory - ulnar deviation upon wrist flexion
Failure of longitudinal growth (endochondrial ossification) leading to short limbs - membranous is unaffected - large head
49. subchondreal cysts - sclerosis - osteophytes - joint space narrowing - eburnation - hebereden's nodes (DIP) bouchard nodes (PIP) - characteristic findings of this dz
Deep branch of radial nerve
Giant cell tumor (osteoclastoma) - double bubble or soap bubble
Anti - CCP - HLA- DR4
Osteoarthritis
50. What injury causes injury to the MC nerve and what motor and sensory defs dose it cause
Lower trunk of brachial plexus
Upper trunk compression - biceps - brachialis - corachobrachialis - flexion of arm at elbow - sensory = lateraly forearm
Serum ca - phos - alk phos are NL
Vesicle
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