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1. Putamen - thalamus - A42Sydenhama Chorea
M protein: Microbiology
- ANCA
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate

2. Naked for CPRat: Calcivirus
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Naked RNA: Microbology

3. A06Strep. Pyogenes (pharyngitis
Myxedema
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Cat Scratch Disease
Beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Sensitive: Microbiology

4. Multiple myeloma
Positive testicular transillumination
Russell Bodies
eating raw fish
Ptosis

5. A04Necrobiosis lipoidica - Skin lesions of classic NL begin as 1- to 3- mm well - circumscribed papules or nodules that expand with an active border to become waxy atrophic round plaques centrally. Initially these plaques are red - brown in color but
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Russell Bodies
Asymptomatic shiny patches / red - brown with yellow / Diabetic
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology

6. A07Anthrax -
Lack color: Microbiology
Kussmaul hypernea
Black eschar on skin
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)

7. Neural cest cells From which carcinoids arise = of the Bronchi
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Kulchitsky cells
Rice water stool

8. Urinary bladder CA -
dramatic
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
Rib notching
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium

9. 'A23Methionine - Threonine - Valine - Arginine - Histadine' -
2 circular DNAs: Microbiology
Glucogenic amino acids
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Cat Scratch Disease

10. Tetracycline -
eating raw fish
Calcium chelator of antibiotics
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
Heterophil antibodies

11. Patent ductus arteriosus -
Black eschar on skin
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Continuous machinery murmur
2 circular DNAs: Microbiology

12. Tendonitis due to antibiotics - A11Fluoroquinolones -
Cartilage damage
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)

13. Von Recklinghausen's disease -
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots
Blueberry muffin spots

14. A07Achalasia -
Donovan bodies
Russell Bodies
Birds beak on barium swallow
Cogwheel rigidity

15. A05OBEDat O = Salmonella B = Botulinum E = Erythrogenic strep D = Diptheria -
B Prophage: Microbiology
Boutonniere deformity
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Esophagogastric lacerations during intensive vomitting

16. Common peroneal lesion -
Acid Fast Organisms: Microbiology
Cold abscess in spine
Foot drop. No dorsiflexion or eversion of the foot
Rice water stool

17. Lyme disease -
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Antineutrophil antibodies
Erythema chronicum migrans
Chancroid (painful)

18. 'A14Seen in atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae) - It is IgM Ab with specificity for I Ag on adult RBCs' -
Dinner fork deformity
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Cold agglutinins
Crescendo decrescendo murmur

19. A03Amyloidosis -
Kulchitsky cells
Reid index (increased)
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
Apple - green birefringence

20. Trypansoma cruzi: Chagasa
Rice H2O Diarrhea: Microbiology
Clue cells on wet mount
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections

21. Trichomoniasis -
S3 in Heart Auscultation
Ketogenic amino acids
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge
Bagassosis

22. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:
Cerebriform nuclei
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
IgM & C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts

23. A07Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma) -
Niacin production: Microbiology
Birbeck granules on EM
Pigment Producing Bacteria: Microbiology
Sail sign

24. Benign intercranial hypertension - also known as Pseudotumour cerebri -
Bamboo spine on x- ray
IgM & C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Obese female with headache takes OCPs
Heberden's nodes

25. Bartonella henselae. Leion can resemble Kaposi's sarcoma. Toxoplasmosis -
Cat Scratch Disease
Nephritis
Podagra
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)

26. Libman - Sacks disease -
Autosplenectomy
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Mallory bodies
Endocarditis associated with SLE

27. Retinitis pigmentosa -
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion
S4 in Heart Auscultation
Obligate Non Intracellular Parasites: Microbiology

28. 'A01Contains digoxin Implicated as a cause of Hodgkin
Lactose formers: Microbiology
neonateal meningitis
Agent Orange
Anti epithelial cell Antibody

29. Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy -
Rib notching
Pink Eye
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Positive Murphy's

30. Associated w/lymphoid neoplasms. See agglutination & hemolysis in tissue exposed to cold. IgM Abs -
Alpha - hemolytic: Microbiology
Heat intolerance / palpitations
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton
Ketogenic amino acids

31. Tay- Sachs - Niemann Pick Disease - Central Retinal Artery Occlusion -
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Dry eyes
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Diphyllobothrium latum

32. Cryptococcus neoformans -
Indian Ink: Microbiology
Philadelphia Chromosome (bcr - abl)
Positive Murphy's
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)

33. Leydig cell tumor
Increased Uric acid levels
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Reinke crystals
- ANCA

34. A03Rheumatoid Arthritis -
Bronchogenic apical tumor associated with Horner's syndrome
Club - shaped bacilli in palisades: Microbiology
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
Anti - IgG antibodies

35. A02Skip lesions (Crohn's disease = autoimmune) -
dramatic
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Bacterial membrane contains cholesterol: Microbiology
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation

36. A05Rheumatoid arthritis -

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37. Neuroblastoma -
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots
Reiter's Syndrome
Only ssDNA: microbiology

38. Chronic Bronchitis
Orphan Annie nuclei
Reid index (increased)
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics

39. A01Guillain - Barre (increased protein in CSF with only modest increase in cell count) -
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Albuminocytologic dissociation

40. Primary TB -
Ghon focus
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Charcot - Leyden Crystals - (eosinophil membranes)
(+) Frei Test

41. Treponema palidum & Pneumocystis Carinii (cannot be cultured on inert media but can be found extra cellularly in the body) -
Obligate Non Intracellular Parasites: Microbiology
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Anti basement membrane antibodies
Deficiency of Galactose 1 Phosphate Uridyl Transferase.

42. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Rice water stool
Brushfield's spots
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate

43. 'A45Urethritis - conjunctivitis - arthritis'

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44. Ribs - skull - A47Multiple Myeloma
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
salt & pepper lesions (Lytic lesions of flat bones) of vertebrae
Rash on palms and soles
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia

45. Perioral pigmentation - A06Puetz - Jeghers syndrome -
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:
Benign polyposis
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

46. Chloramphenicol -
Anti epithelial cell Antibody
Gray- baby syndrome
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Podagra

47. Pseudomonas aeroginosa -
Iron/cysteine supplement (charcoal -yeast agar) : Microbiology
Pigment Producing Bacteria: Microbiology
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate
Contact lensa

48. Hypoplastic Goiter nodules that do not take up radio active iodine. [Opposite: hot & do take up iodine] -
Chocolate Cysts on ovaries
Cold Nodules
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology

49. Infectious mononucleosis (EBV) -
Heterophil antibodies
Anti basement membrane antibodies
Bronze skin
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium

50. Duchenne's -

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