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USMLE Buzzwords

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1. Pasteurella multocida -
Most Common Cause/Association: 5- HT increase
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency
Dog or cat bite
Ash leaf spots

2. GI Adenovirus infection -

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3. A04Neurosyphillis -

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4. A05Goodpasture's syndrome -
Orphan Annie nuclei
Mousy body odor
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Only dsRNA: Microbiology

5. 'A47L -> R shunt (VSD - ASD - PDA) mitral regurgitation - LV failure (CHF)'
Mallory bodies
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge
S3 in Heart Auscultation
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology

6. carcinoma of the breast -

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7. Guillain - Barre Syndrome
Schiller - Duval bodies
Ptosis
Parasites & CA: S. mansoni
Polyneuropathy preceded by GI or Respiratory infection

8. Pasteurella multocida -
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa
S4 in Heart Auscultation
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology
Cat Bites

9. SHYPSat Shigella Yersinia enterolytica (AKA Pestis) Proteus Salmonella -
Owl's eye
Branching rods in oral infection
Non lactose formers: Microbiology
Donovan bodies

10. Rapidly progressive GN nephritic syndrome Associated w/ multi system disease or post - strep/post infectious glomerular nephritis -

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11. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -

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12. McArdle's disease -
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Anti - streptolysin O (ASO) : Microbiology

13. Cheese - vegetables (coleslaw) - in recent infections - A33Listeria -
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Calcinosis
Milk

14. MEN type IIa (Sipple's syndrome)
Esophageal webs with iron deficiency
Port - wine stain
Pheochromocytoma and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma
Defective Dystrophin less severe

15. A00Lead poisoning -
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Positive anterior drawer sign
Diminished reflexes

16. Pott's disease (Vertebral Tuberculosis) -
Heterophil antibodies
Cold abscess in spine
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Betel nuts

17. A00Papovavirus & Hepadnavirus -
Charcot's triad: (jaundice
2 circular DNAs: Microbiology
Bacterial membrane contains cholesterol: Microbiology
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns

18. Benign intercranial hypertension - also known as Pseudotumour cerebri -
Bamboo spine on x- ray
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Obese female with headache takes OCPs
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts

19. A06Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine) - Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) -
Phagocyte Deficiency
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
Bence Jones proteins
Non lactose formers: Microbiology

20. Diabetic nephropathy -
Osler's nodes - Tender lesions of fingers & toes.
Kimmelstiel - Wilson nodules
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton
McBurney's sign

21. Gram (+): Bacillus & Clostridium made up of dipicolinate & Keratin -
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology
Radiating Back Pain
Intussception

22. Macrocytic anemia -
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain
Hypersegmented neutrophils
Need Cysyeine for growth: Microbiology
Jaundice - RUQ pain - Fever

23. Crohn's disease -
Rice water stool
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
Cobblestoning
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology

24. A03Vasculitis -
Eaton Fried Eggs: Microbiology
Painless jaundice
Antineutrophil antibodies
Anti basement membrane antibodies

25. PDA -
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Machinery like murmur
Christmas tree patterned rash
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology

26. Pancreatic cancer (head) -
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock
Ferruginous bodies
Painless jaundice
Pseudomembranous colitis (can be precipitated by clindamycin/ampicillin) : Microbiology

27. A04Rheumatic Fever -
Honeycomb lung on X- ray
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
Parasites & CA: Aspergillus flavus
Koplik spots

28. Giardia lamblia -
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Cold Nodules
Rice water stool
Increased alpha - feto protein in amniotic fluid or maternal serum

29. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
HGPRT deficiency e
Bag of worms NB. Can be secondary to obstruction of left renal vein (such as with a renal cell carcinoma / a renal vein thrombus /or retroperitoneal adenopathy)'
Calf pseudohypertrophy

30. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -

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31. Mycoplasma pneumoniae has fried egg colonies on Eaton agar (needs cholesterol) -
Black eschar on skin
Polyarthralgia due to antibiotics
Lysosomal glucosidase deficiency associated with cardiomegaly
Eaton Fried Eggs: Microbiology

32. Haemophilus influenzae -
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Niacin production: Microbiology
Clue cells on wet mount

33. Cor pulmonale
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Protein A: Microbiology
Cotton wool spots

34. K- F Circle - Ataxia - A24Wilson's disease -
Hepatolenticular degeneration
Agent Orange
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots

35. A05Varicocele - -

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36. Wegener's granulomatosis
Positive C- anca
S4 in Heart Auscultation
Iron/cysteine supplement (charcoal -yeast agar) : Microbiology
Call - Exner bodies

37. Papovavirus.
Palmar crease/simian crease
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology

38. Multiple myeloma
Christmas tree patterned rash
ASO
Anti - IgG antibodies
Russell Bodies

39. Miosis - anhidrosis - A43Horner's syndrome
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Ptosis
Bulla in lung
Headache in band - like distribution

40. A06Strep. Agalactiae (Diabetes predisposes to infection) -
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)
Buerger's disease

41. Narcolepsy -
Antihistone antibodies
Lisch nodules
Hypnagogic Hallucinaitons
Codman's triangle on XR

42. AIDS in MSM -

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43. Pseudomonas aeroginosa. -
Black eschar on skin
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Farmer's Lung

44. 'A14Seen in atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae) - It is IgM Ab with specificity for I Ag on adult RBCs' -
No lactation postpartum
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
Cold agglutinins
Cold abscess in spine

45. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (also known as slipped capital femoral epiphysis) -
Reed - Stenberg cells
Chubby teen male with knee pain
Nephritis
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin

46. Minimal Change (Lipoid nephrosis) disease
Podocyte Effacement
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Calf pseudohypertrophy

47. Pick's disease
Pseudomembranous colitis due to antibiotics
Honey coloured crust
Painless jaundice
Pick bodies

48. Dubin - Johnson synrome -
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
ADA Deficiency
Protein A: Microbiology

49. Glanzmann's thrombasthenia -
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Fatty liver
Defect in platelet aggregation
Philadelphia Chromosome (bcr - abl)

50. Gaucher's disease -
Nonseptate Hyphae: Microbiology
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Port - wine stain
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency