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1. Lyme disease -
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Erythema chronicum migrans
Floppy Baby
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men

2. Haemophilus influenzae -
Sandpaper rash
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)

3. Haemophilus influenzae -
(+) Frei Test
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Painless jaundice
Schiller - Duval bodies

4. Colle's fracture? -
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology
Caisson disease
Dinner fork deformity
Endospores G(+): Microbiology

5. Kartagener's syndrome -
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Novobiocin sensitive (Endocarditis in IVDUs) : Microbiology
Dynein defect
Farmer's Lung

6. A06Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig light chains in urine) - Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (IgM) -
Rice water stool
D- Dimers
Painless jaundice
Bence Jones proteins

7. Alcoholic liver disease -
Non Motile Bacilli & Clostridium: Microbiology
Contact lens solution infection
Mallory bodies
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology

8. Pancreatic cancer (head) -
Neurofibrillary tangles
Lines of Zahn
Painless jaundice
Defective Dystrophin less severe

9. Associated with severe burns - A22Curling's ulcer -
Marble Bone
Alpha Feto Protein increase
Gastric ulcer: Acute
EFII Ribosylation: Microbiology

10. Iron deficiency anaemia -

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11. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology

12. Yolk - sac tumor
Schiller - Duval bodies
Alpha - hemolytic: Microbiology
Grows in Rice: Microbiology
Only ssDNA: microbiology

13. Phenylketonuria -
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Mousy body odor
Foot drop. No dorsiflexion or eversion of the foot

14. Alport's syndrome -
Protozoa: Microbiology
Hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness
Pruritus after bath/shower
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology

15. Glioblastoma Multiforme
HbS presence
Contact lensa
Pseudopalisade tumor cell arrangement
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis or burn victims

16. 'A24Choriocarcinomas - hydatidiform mole (occurs with and without embryo)' -
Hypochromic microcytosis
hCG elevated
Gower's Maneuver (use of patient arms to help pick legs up off the floor)
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts

17. A08Actinomyces israelii -
Rouleaux Formation (stacked RBC's dt inc ESR
Mallory bodies
Benign polyposis
Branching rods in oral infection

18. Wegener's and Goodpasture's (Hemoptysis and glomerular disease) -
Kerley B lines
Phagocyte Deficiency
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Blue - domed cysts

19. A08Congenital rubella -
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Diminished reflexes
No cell wall. Membrane has cholesterol: Microbiology
Blueberry muffin spots

20. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors
Painless jaundice
Obligate Non Intracellular Parasites: Microbiology

21. A02Skip lesions (Crohn's disease = autoimmune) -
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Only dsRNA: Microbiology
Reiter's Syndrome
Rib notching

22. M. tuberculosis ID -
Russell Bodies
Sabourauda Agar
Currant Jelly appearance
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology

23. Trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazole -
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Bamboo spine on x- ray
Boot - shaped heart on XR
Megaloblastic anemia (supplement with vitamin B6) due to antibiotics

24. Malaria -
Infection by Reduviid Bug: Microbiology
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
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)'
Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy

25. Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema -
Kerley B lines
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)

26. Malignant mesothelioma -
Occupational exposure to Asbestos
Podocyte Effacement
Bacterial membrane contains cholesterol: Microbiology
Contact lens solution infection

27. 'A41Emphysema (centroacinar[smoking] - panacinar [alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency]'
Pink Puffer
Penile fibrosis
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Janeway lesions - (non - tender

28. Toxic or viral hepatitis -
Nonseptate Hyphae: Microbiology
Heat intolerance / palpitations
Councilman bodies
Bloody tap on LP

29. Leydig cell tumor
Hypertension
Obligate Anaerobes: Microbiology
Pruritus after bath/shower
Reinke crystals

30. Aortic stenosis -
Red - man syndrome due to antibiotics
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:

31. McArdle's disease -
IgA Protease Activity: Microbiology
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Heberden's nodes
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency

32. Pneumomediastinum (aka mediastinal emphysema)
Alpha Feto Protein increase
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech
Polyneuropathy preceded by GI or Respiratory infection
Sail sign

33. Pityriasis rosea -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Herald patch
Double Zone b Hemolysis (test)
Exotoxin A: Microbiology

34. Malignant HTN & Kidneys
Deleted dystrophin gene (X- linked recessive)
IgM & C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Petehial hemorrhages are seen on kidney surfaces = Flea - Bitten surface = young black men
Dieterle silver stain: Microbiology

35. 'A01Contains digoxin Implicated as a cause of Hodgkin
Agent Orange
No lactation postpartum
Debranching enzyme deficiency
Contact lensa

36. Lipid laden macrophages seen in villi of Erythroblastosis Fetalis -
Hofbauer Cells
Gastrin - secreting tumor associated with ulcers
Currant Jelly appearance
Chronic Cold Agglutinaiton

37. Hypokalemia - A27Conn's syndrome -
Filamentous hemagglutinin: Microbiology
Right heart failure due to a pulmonary cause
Hypertension
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)

38. Trichomoniasis -
Most Common Cause/Association: 5- HT increase
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge
Post streptococcal infection. Necrotizing arteritis of the caudate
Bilateral bell's palsy with target lesion on skin

39. Haemophilus ducreyi -
Polyarthralgia due to antibiotics
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)
Chancroid (painful)
Infant on cow's milk diet

40. A03SLE (Type III hypersensitivity) -
Anti - ds DNA antibodies (ANA)
Cat Bites
Chediak - Higashi disease
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia

41. Multiple myeloma -
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
Horner's syndrome
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Herald patch

42. Mycoplasma pneumoniae -
Dinner fork deformity
Mallory bodies
Fried egg shaped colony: Microbiology
Albuminocytologic dissociation

43. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -

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44. Median nerve lesion -
Nutmeg liver
Howell - Jolly bodies
Contact lensa
No arm pronation

45. A07oral cancer. -
Hair - on - end appearance on XR
Betel nuts
Birbeck granules on EM
Osler's nodes - Tender lesions of fingers & toes.

46. Vibrio parahemolyticus
Protozoa: Microbiology
Raw seafood intoxicaiton
Recurrent pulmonary Psuedomonas and S. Aureus infections
Apple - green birefringence

47. Gout
Painless jaundice
Podagra
Intussception
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock

48. Cavernous hemangiomas - adenomas - A45von - hippel - lindau disease
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Autosplenectomy
Renal cell carcinoma
Rhomboid crystals

49. Pyloric stenosis -
Antiplatelet antibodies
Pink Puffer
Nonbilious vomiting / olive size abdominal mass
Relapsing Fever

50. A02Vitelline Yolk Sac Tumor - Hepatocellular CA -
Alpha - Feto Protien AFP Most Common Cause/Association:
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis or burn victims
Chubby teen male with knee pain
Heat intolerance / palpitations