USMLE Buzzwords

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1. Cheese - vegetables (coleslaw) - in recent infections - A33Listeria -
Blueberry muffin spots
Birbeck granules on EM
Milk
Dysphagia (due to webs in the upper esophagus)


2. A08Fibrocystic change of the breast -
Ketogenic amino acids
Osler's nodes - Tender lesions of fingers & toes.
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Blue - domed cysts


3. Predisposition to gastric carcinoma -
2 circular DNAs: Microbiology
Christmas tree patterned rash
Chronic atrophic gastritis
Bloody diarrhea agents: Microbiology


4. Serratia
Night blindness leading to tunnel vision
Positive Murphy's
Pigment Producing Bacteria: Microbiology
Hofbauer Cells


5. Dubin - Johnson synrome -
Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (Black liver)
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Need Cysyeine for growth: Microbiology
Hair - on - end appearance on XR


6. Aortic stenosis -
Intussception
Bulla in lung
Defect in platelet adhesion
Crescendo decrescendo murmur


7. Primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) -
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics
Hyperpigmentation of skin


8. A05Goodpasture's syndrome -
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Nigrostriatal dopamine depletion
Fat
Hair - on - end appearance on XR


9. Acute glomerulonephritis
Relapsing Fever
RBC casts in urine
Fat
Condylomata lata


10. Macrocytic anemia -
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Hypersegmented neutrophils
Diminished reflexes
Anti epithelial cell Antibody


11. Lesch - Nyhan syndrom -
HGPRT deficiency e
RUQ pain / fever / jaundice + altered mental state and shock
Micro Aerophilic: Microbiology
Chancroid (painful)


12. Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy -
Charcot's triad: (nystagmus
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Palmar crease/simian crease


13. Takayasu arteritis - stenosis of aortic arch and its large branches with ischemia to upper part of the body
Lack color: Microbiology
Defect in platelet adhesion
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Pulseless disease


14. Gram (+): Bacillus & Clostridium made up of dipicolinate & Keratin -
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Endospores G(+): Microbiology
Factors X and V: Microbiology


15. Splenectomy (or nonfunctional spleen) -
Councilman bodies
Howell - Jolly bodies
Recurrent vasospasm in extremities
Agent Orange


16. Rheumatoid Arthritis -
Down syndrome
Pannus
Panlobular Emphysema
Acute Cold Agglutination


17. Von Recklinghausen's disease -
Podocyte fusion
Infection by Anopheles Mosquito: Microbiology
Ejection click
Neurofibromatosis with cafe - au - lait spots


18. A00P. aeroginosa infection -
blebs (large subpleural bullae)
Dinner fork deformity
Ecthyma Gangrenosum (Target shaped skin lesions w/ a black center and red ring surrounding the lesion)
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis


19. Multiple myeloma -
Cold Nodules
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
Freshwater lake infection: Microbiology
Lytic bone lesions on XR


20. Pseudomonas & Mycobacterium -
Hyperpigmentation of skin
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice
Enterotoxin: Microbiology


21. Phagocyte deficiency -
Kussmaul hypernea
Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs) and necrotizing glomerulonephritis
Chediak - Higashi disease
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)


22. Haemophilus influenzae -
Peau d'orange
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Ghon focus
Apple - green birefringence


23. B. Anthracis & C. Perfringens -
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa
Podocyte fusion
Gastric ulcer: Acute
Non Motile Bacilli & Clostridium: Microbiology


24. K- F Circle - Ataxia - A24Wilson's disease -
Obligate Anaerobes: Microbiology
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Hepatolenticular degeneration
Hypertension


25. Bernard - Soulier disease -
Neurofibrillary tangles
Defect in platelet adhesion
Apple - green birefringence
Cold intolerance / weight gain


26. CMV -

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27. Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -
Lisch nodules
Irregularly irregular rhythm
Protein A: Microbiology
Asymptomatic shiny patches / red - brown with yellow / Diabetic


28. A06Gilbert's syndrome -
Inguinal hernia in Older men Direct
Benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Alpha Feto Protein increase
Marble Bone


29. Infectious mononucleosis (EBV) -
Factors X and V: Microbiology
Postpartum pituitary necrosis
Heterophil antibodies
Obesity / amenorrhea / hirsuitism / infertility


30. Job's syndrome -
Hypochromic microcytosis
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Glucogenic amino acids
Rib notching


31. 'A23B- thallasemia - sickle cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoeisis)' -
Sandpaper rash
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Pruritus after bath/shower
Hair - on - end appearance on XR


32. 'A28Leishmaniasis: Mucocutaneous Diseases by L. braziliensis & Visceral Disease by L. donovani & Dermal Leishman by L. tropica - mexicana - peruviana' -
Bell's Palsy
Protozoa: Microbiology
Homer Wright Rosettes - circular patterns of neoplastic cells arranged around a core of neuropil (fibrillar extensions of neuroblasts)
Infection by Sandfly: Microbiology


33. Negatively birefringent crystals - A34Gout -
Cobblestoning
PICA Thrombosis
Needle - shaped
Friction Rub


34. A04Rheumatic Fever -
Aschoff bodies - (painless fibrinoid nodule in myocardium)
Gastric adenocarcinoma with ovarian metastases
Birbeck granules on EM
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology


35. Staph. Saprophyticus -
Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology
Positive C- anca
Exfoliatin (scalded skin syndrome) : Microbiology


36. Duchenne's -

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37. A08Osteoarthritis (PIP swelling 2nd to osteophytes) -

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38. carcinoma of the breast -

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39. A08Bordetella pertusis ID -
Deficiency of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase.
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology
Reinke crystals
Palpable purpura on legs and buttocks


40. Endocarditis - Type III Immune complex mediated

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41. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -
IgM & C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology
Pyocyanin & Pyoverdin: Microbiology
Painless genital ulcer/chancre


42. A03Celiac disease -
Kimmelstiel - Wilson nodules
Antigliadin antibodies
Lewy Bodies
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches


43. Hand - Foot - and - Mouthat Disease: Coxsackie A (Picornavirus +ssRNA) -
Port - wine stain
Holosystolic murmur
Fatty liver
Herpangina: Microbiology


44. Osteosarcoma -

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45. Acanthamoeba -
Optochin sensitive: Microbiology
Neutrophil chemotaxis abnormality
Acid fast inclusion bodies Increased urinary coproprophyrin - Anemia: microcytic/hypochromic - Stippling of the basophils Gingival line & lead line in bones: x- ray - Mental retardation
Contact lens solution infection


46. A00Abs to I blood group Ag. Mediated by IgM Abs - Complication of EBV or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections -
Infant on cow's milk diet
Anti epithelial cell Antibody
Bamboo spine on x- ray
Acute Cold Agglutination


47. Babesia microti: Babesiosis & Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme Disease -
Honeycomb lung on X- ray
Babinski sign
Infection by Ixodes Tick: Microbiology
Diminished absent lower limb pulses


48. Yolk - sac tumor
Honeycomb lung on X- ray
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Schiller - Duval bodies
DES (Diethylstilbesterol) Exposure in utero


49. Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis -
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Lens dislocation
RBC casts in urine
Bloody diarrhea agents: Microbiology


50. A05Rheumatoid arthritis -

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