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USMLE Buzzwords

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1. Down syndrome -
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Palmar crease/simian crease
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect

2. Hydrocele
Cheyne - Stokes respirations
Positive testicular transillumination
Antiplatelet antibodies
Pheochromocytoma and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma

3. Osteoarthritis (DIP swelling 2nd to osteophytes) -

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4. Ascending cholangitis - This is known as Reynold's Pentad
IgM & C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Bulla in lung
Hepatolenticular degeneration
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock

5. Benign intercranial hypertension - also known as Pseudotumour cerebri -
Buerger's disease
Pannus
Blue - bloater
Obese female with headache takes OCPs

6. Pityriasis rosea -
Ejection click
Christmas tree patterned rash
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia
Fast vs. slow acetylators due to antibiotics

7. Squamous cell carcinoma -
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Sensitive: Microbiology
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Keratin pearls
Kaposi's sarcoma

8. A09Lead poisoning -

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9. A09Pancoast's tumor -

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10. Malaria -
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium
Honey coloured crust

11. Fanconi' syndrome
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology

12. Chronic pancreatitis
Chediak - Higashi disease
Cogwheel rigidity
Penile fibrosis
Radiating Back Pain

13. Pick's disease
Obligate Anaerobes: Microbiology
Pick bodies
neonateal meningitis
Russell Bodies

14. Bartonella henselae. Leion can resemble Kaposi's sarcoma. Toxoplasmosis -
Cold agglutinins
Cat Scratch Disease
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
Oxidase (+): Microbiology

15. Von Recklinghausen's disease -
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia
Koplik spots
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis or burn victims
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots

16. Hypothyroidism -
Roth's Spots in Retina - (hemorrhage w/ pale center)
Myxedema
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Basophilic stippling of RBC's

17. Cardiac pathology - and edema -'A41Dry beriberi (Thiamine - B1 deficiency)'
Polyneuropathy
Machinery like murmur
Fast vs. slow acetylators due to antibiotics
Marble Bone

18. Toxic or viral hepatitis -
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin
Councilman bodies
Kernicterus due to antibiotics
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins

19. A06Ankylosing spondylitis -
Heberden's nodes
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Bamboo spine on x- ray
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)

20. A04Nasal polyps Rhinitis bronchoconstriction -
Contact lensa
Loffler's Medium: Microbiology
Aspirin - Asthma Triad
Peau d'orange

21. Measles -
Cotton wool spots
Ant - epithelial cell antibodies
Rigidity Resting Tremor - Bradykinesia
Cough Coryza Conjunctivitis - Fever

22. Granulosa Theca Cell Tumor of the Ovary -
Dog or cat bite
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)
Inclusion Bodies: Microbiology
Non Motile Bacilli & Clostridium: Microbiology

23. 'A14Seen in atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae) - It is IgM Ab with specificity for I Ag on adult RBCs' -
Cold agglutinins
Antineutrophil antibodies
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
Alcoholics - Aspiration pneumonia Abscesses in the lungs

24. A04Mononucleosis -
Blue sclera
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Atypical lymphocytosis
Buerger's disease

25. Corneybacterium diphtheriae -

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26. Streptococcus pyogenes -
Kernicterus due to antibiotics
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches
M protein: Microbiology
Burkitt's lymphoma

27. Putamen - thalamus - A42Sydenhama Chorea
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Donovan bodies
Late cyanosis shunt (uncorrected L->R shunt becomes R->L shunt)
Hyperreninemia

28. Herpes virus -
Hofbauer Cells
Cowdry type A bodies
Osler's nodes
ASO

29. Transmits Trypanoma cruzi (Chagas’ disease): Romanaa Sign
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
Chancroid (painful)
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Radiating Back Pain

30. Clindamycin
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Bamboo spine on x- ray
Pseudomembranous colitis due to antibiotics
Ash leaf spots

31. Chronic Bronchitis
Neurofibrillary tangles
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
McBurney's sign
Reid index (increased)

32. Plummer - vinson syndrome -
Chancre (not painful)
Non Motile Gram (+) Rods: Microbiology: Microbiology
Nutmeg liver
Esophageal webs with iron deficiency

33. Pneumomediastinum (aka mediastinal emphysema)
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Sail sign
Alpha Feto Protein increase

34. Causes amebic meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri -
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Bad canned foods
Parasites & CA: Schistosoma haematobium
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology

35. Dressler's syndrome
Myxedema
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Positive Murphy's
Post - MI fibrinous pericarditis

36. Giant intestinal flukes -'A19Fasciola Biski - Txt: Praziquantel' -
Jaundice - RUQ pain - Fever
Burton's lines
eating raw fish
Oto - and nephrotoxicity due to antibiotics

37. A03Vasculitis -
Ferruginous bodies
Antineutrophil antibodies
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors
Cord factor: Microbiology

38. A01Bruton's disease -
Hypertension
No arm pronation
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked
Pick bodies

39. Giardia lamblia -
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Positive testicular transillumination
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Heberden's nodes

40. K- F Circle - Ataxia - A24Wilson's disease -
Hepatolenticular degeneration
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Lead pipe rigidity from antipsychotics
Eaton Fried Eggs: Microbiology

41. 'A27Iron - deficiency anemia - lead poisoning' -
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge
Only dsRNA: Microbiology
Hypochromic microcytosis

42. Staph A & Yersenia pestis -
Cotton wool spots
Dermatitis - Dementia - Diarrhea
Coagulase (+): Microbiology
Alcoholics - Aspiration pneumonia Abscesses in the lungs

43. A00Peptic ulcer disease -
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Cancer involving the pituitary gland under the brain
Abdominal pain wakes patient from sleep
Kulchitsky cells

44. Primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) -
eating raw fish
Idiopathic polyneuritis
Hyperpigmentation of skin
Antigliadin antibodies

45. A01Curling's ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa) -
Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Bouchard's nodes
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate

46. A06Strep. Agalactiae (Diabetes predisposes to infection) -
beta Hemolysis/Bacitracin Resistant: Microbiology
Burkitt's lymphoma
Myxedema
Betel nuts

47. Haemophilus influenzae -
Cold intolerance / weight gain
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion
Chocolate agar: Microbiology
Cold abscesses

48. Haemophilus ducreyi -
Councilman bodies
Chancroid (painful)
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics
Niacin production: Microbiology

49. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (also known as slipped capital femoral epiphysis) -
Chubby teen male with knee pain
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors
Debranching enzyme deficiency
Red urine in the morning

50. Pseudomonas
Niacin production: Microbiology
Horner's syndrome
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis or burn victims
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches