USMLE Buzzwords

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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Iron deficiency anaemia -

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2. Bartonella henselae. Leion can resemble Kaposi's sarcoma. Toxoplasmosis -
B Prophage: Microbiology
D- Dimers
Cat Scratch Disease
Councilman bodies


3. Streptococcus pneumoniae -
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Crescent's in Bowman's capsule
Burkitt's lymphoma


4. Sickle Cell Anemia -
Kussmaul hypernea
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
HbF -
Negri bodies


5. A06Lead poisoning -

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6. Common peroneal lesion -
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology
Currant - jelly sputum
Foot drop. No dorsiflexion or eversion of the foot
Sabourauda Agar


7. Gas emboli -
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
Jaundice - RUQ pain - Fever
Iron/cysteine supplement (charcoal -yeast agar) : Microbiology
Caisson disease


8. Staphylococcus aureus -
RBC casts in urine
Enterotoxin: Microbiology
Loffler's Medium: Microbiology
Sabrands: Microbiology


9. Urinary bladder CA -
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium
Lisch nodules
Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion


10. Staph. Epidermidis -
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Osler's nodes
Brushfield's spots


11. A00Abs to I blood group Ag. Mediated by IgM Abs - Complication of EBV or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections -
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Cobblestoning
Acute Cold Agglutination
Honeycomb lung on X- ray


12. Polycythaemia (rubra) Vera
Pink Eye
Micro Aerophilic: Microbiology
Pruritus after bath/shower
Schiller - Duval bodies


13. A07Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma) -
Hypochromic microcytosis
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
IgM & C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Birbeck granules on EM


14. A06LMN CN VII palsy -

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15. A05Rheumatoid arthritis -

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16. Minimal Change (Lipoid nephrosis) disease
Adrenal hemorrhage associated with meningococcemia
Podocyte Effacement
Rice H2O Diarrhea: Microbiology
Rib notching


17. Gram (+): Bacillus & Clostridium made up of dipicolinate & Keratin -
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
Postpartum pituitary necrosis


18. Trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazole -
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches
Fast vs. slow acetylators due to antibiotics
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
Anti basement membrane antibodies


19. Staph. Saprophyticus -
Needle - shaped
HbF presence
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology


20. Predisposition to gastric carcinoma -
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Oto - and nephrotoxicity due to antibiotics


21. A02Skip lesions (Crohn's disease = autoimmune) -
Pseudorosettes
Relapsing Fever
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon


22. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
HGPRT deficiency e
Deficiency of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase.
- cAMP: Microbiology


23. Down syndrome -
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin
Chronic progressive histiocytosis
Palmar crease/simian crease
Diminished absent lower limb pulses


24. Measles -
Hypertension
Machinery like murmur
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever


25. A07Paraseptal emphysema - can rupture and cause pneumothorax -
Enterotoxin: Microbiology
blebs (large subpleural bullae)
Hemorrhagic Fevers: Microbiology
Foot drop. No dorsiflexion or eversion of the foot


26. 'A25Reiter's syndrome - ankylosing spondylitis' -
Acute Cold Agglutination
HLA- B27
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Osler's nodes


27. Pick's disease
Calcinosis
Antiplatelet antibodies
Phagocyte Deficiency
Pick bodies


28. Cavernous hemangiomas - adenomas - A45von - hippel - lindau disease
Barr Body
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Renal cell carcinoma


29. Liquefied TB lesions similar to pyogenic abscesses but lacking acute inflammation -
Chronic atrophic gastritis
- ANCA
Burton's lines
Cold abscesses


30. AIDS in MSM -

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31. A07Anthrax -
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
opening snap in heart
Heterophil antibodies
Black eschar on skin


32. Ewing's sarcoma
Pseudorosettes
Benign polyposis
Hyperreninemia
Beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Sensitive: Microbiology


33. A00Lead poisoning -
Obese female with headache takes OCPs
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology


34. Yolk - sac tumor
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Schiller - Duval bodies
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Apple - green birefringence


35. Epidural hematoma -
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Kaposi's sarcoma
Lucid interval
Infant on cow's milk diet


36. Krukenberg tumor -
Cerebellar Tonsillar Herniation
Dog or cat bite
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology


37. A08Congenital rubella -
Autosplenectomy
Defective Dystrophin less severe
Cowdry type A bodies
Blueberry muffin spots


38. Hand - Foot - and - Mouthat Disease: Coxsackie A (Picornavirus +ssRNA) -
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Herpangina: Microbiology
Headache in band - like distribution
Antigliadin antibodies


39. Huntington's disease -
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Caudate degeneration (autosomal dominant)
Branching rods in oral infection


40. 'A23Methionine - Threonine - Valine - Arginine - Histadine' -
Continuous machinery murmur
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency
Glucogenic amino acids


41. Alzheimer's disease -
Rice water stool
Naked RNA: Microbology
Neurofibrillary tangles
Floppy Baby


42. Von Recklinghausen's disease -
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots
Ferruginous bodies
Cat Bites
No arm pronation


43. A07EIEC EHEC Shigella - Yersenia enterocolitica Entaemeba histolytica Salmonella Campylobacter jejuni -
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton
Owl's eye
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Bloody diarrhea agents: Microbiology


44. A05Due to M. vulgaris (actinomycetes) Inhalation of sugar cane dust -
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever
Low serum ceruloplasmin
Auer Rods
Bagassosis


45. Minimal change disease
Podocyte fusion
C3 & IgG deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Milk
(+) Frei Test


46. Pasteurella multocida -
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Dog or cat bite
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis


47. K- F Circle - Ataxia - A24Wilson's disease -
RBC casts in urine
Babinski sign
Hepatolenticular degeneration
Ptosis


48. Clindamycin
Port - wine stain
Oxidase (+): Microbiology
Pseudomembranous colitis due to antibiotics
Anti - streptolysin O (ASO) : Microbiology


49. Eisenmenger's syndrome -
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Chocolate agar: Microbiology
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
eating raw fish


50. A06Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine) - Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) -
Bence Jones proteins
Increased Uric acid levels
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin
Intussception