USMLE Buzzwords

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1. A098:14 translocations associated with EBV -

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2. Subacute bacterial endocarditis. -

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3. Cholera
Rice water stool
Painless genital ulcer/chancre
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Codman's triangle on XR


4. Guillain - Barre syndrome -
Floppy Baby
Idiopathic polyneuritis
No arm pronation
No lactation postpartum


5. Sporothrix schenckii
Nutmeg liver
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge
Rose Bush Thorns
Boot - shaped heart on XR


6. Sezary Syndrome -
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Mousy body odor
Reiter's Syndrome
Cutaneous T- cell lymphoma


7. A03Drug - induced SLE -
Only ssDNA: microbiology
HbF -
Antihistone antibodies
Dynein defect


8. A02Scleroderma (CREST) -
Anticentromere Antibodies
Kayser Fleischer rings
Diphyllobothrium latum
Orphan Annie nuclei


9. A05Goodpasture's syndrome -
Encapsulated bacteria: Microbiology
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Deficiency of Galactose 1 Phosphate Uridyl Transferase.
Myxedema


10. ...
Bad canned foods
Pick bodies
Calcinosis
Non lactose formers: Microbiology


11. Streptococcus throat infection -
Painful pharyngeal erythema with exudate
Only dsRNA: Microbiology
Renal disease Seen in kidney transplant patients: Microbiology
Only C3 deposits in Glomerulonephririts


12. Acute toxic/viral nephrosis
Chocolate Cysts on ovaries
Renal epithelial casts in urine
Idiopathic polyneuritis
Anti epithelial cell Antibody


13. A09Hyperparathyroidism - Osteitis fibrosa cystica (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -
Dog or cat bite
Honey coloured crust
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Lens dislocation


14. Phenylketonuria -
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency
Irregularly irregular rhythm
Mousy body odor
Nutmeg liver


15. Haemophilus influenzae -
Honeycomb lung on X- ray
Red urine in the morning
Raw seafood intoxicaiton
Gram - negative coccobacilli: Microbiology


16. Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen's disease) -
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy/ granulomas / uveitis
Antihistone antibodies
Birds beak on barium swallow
Lisch nodules


17. RUQ pain - fever) - A12cholangitis -

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18. Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone -
Osteitis fibrosis cystica (brown tumor)
Obligate Aerobes: Microbiology
Blueberry muffin spots
Bordet Gengou Agar: Microbiology


19. 'A28Leishmaniasis: Mucocutaneous Diseases by L. braziliensis & Visceral Disease by L. donovani & Dermal Leishman by L. tropica - mexicana - peruviana' -
Lowenstein - Jensen medium: Microbiology
Iduronidase deficiency
Infection by Sandfly: Microbiology
Renal cell carcinoma


20. Henoch - Schonlein purpura -

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21. HPV -
Osler's nodes
Exotoxin A: Microbiology
Keratin pearls
Koiliocytes


22. Plasmodium
Proximal tubular reabsorption defect
Protozoa: Microbiology
Heinz Bodies - (small round inclusions/extensions of RBC membrane)
Phagocyte Deficiency


23. Libman - Sacks disease -
Endocarditis associated with SLE
Bulla in lung
Gastric ulcer: Acute
RBC Osmotic Fragility


24. Hypoplastic Goiter nodules that do not take up radio active iodine. [Opposite: hot & do take up iodine] -
Diphyllobothrium latum
RBC casts in urine
Renal epithelial casts in urine
Cold Nodules


25. Giardia lamblia -
Infant on cow's milk diet
Face - Like Appearance Trophozoites
Cold intolerance / weight gain
Rotor's Syndrome


26. A00P. aeroginosa infection -
Burn patients & Cystic fibrosis
Diabetes Insibidus - Exophthalmos - Skull Lesions
Filamentous Bacteria: Microbiology
Focal neurologic deficits < 1 day


27. Malignant hyperthermia -
High fever/ rigidity after anaesthesia
Lancet - shaped diplococci: Microbiology
DES (Diethylstilbesterol) Exposure in utero
Bilateral amygdala lesions


28. Mycobacterium tuberculosis -
Intussusseption dt hyperplasia of Peyer's Patches
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)'
Rice H2O Diarrhea: Microbiology
Niacin production: Microbiology


29. Coarctation of the aorta -
Anticentromere Antibodies
Diminished absent lower limb pulses
Cafe'- au - lait spots on skin
Optic neuritis due to antibiotics


30. Staph. Saprophyticus -
Antigliadin antibodies
Novobiocin Resistant (UTIs) : Microbiology
IgA Protease Activity: Microbiology
Rhomboid crystals


31. A01Guillain - Barre (increased protein in CSF with only modest increase in cell count) -
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Curschmann's spirals
Defective Dystrophin less severe
Buerger's disease


32. Acute cholecystitis

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33. Mycosis Fungoides (cutaneous T- cell lymphoma) -
Kimmelstiel - Wilson nodules
Panlobular Emphysema
Cerebriform nuclei
Boutonniere deformity


34. Pneumomediastinum (aka mediastinal emphysema)
Hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with hemorrhagic urticaria and URI's
Sabrands: Microbiology
Sail sign
Grows in Rice: Microbiology


35. Gaucher's disease -
Milk
S4 in Heart Auscultation
Nephritis
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency


36. P- ANCA -'A10Wegener's granulomatosis - polyarteritis nodosa' -
PICA Thrombosis
No cell wall. Membrane has cholesterol: Microbiology
- ANCA
Rice water stool


37. Hurler's (Lysosomal storage disease) -
Lumpy- bumpy appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence
Non lactose formers: Microbiology
Iduronidase deficiency
Chocolate Cysts on ovaries


38. Tapeworm infection causing megaloblastic anemia by consuming large amount of vit B12 in the host -
Brown Tumor of bone: Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
Bloody diarrhea agents: Microbiology
Contact lensa
Diphyllobothrium latum


39. A02SLE (type 3 hypersensitivity) -
High - output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy)
Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy/ granulomas / uveitis
RBC Osmotic Fragility
Anti dsDNA Ab (ANA antibody)


40. Takayasu arteritis - stenosis of aortic arch and its large branches with ischemia to upper part of the body
Pulseless disease
Holosystolic murmur
Lucid interval
Agammaglobulinemia: X- linked


41. Bronchial Asthma -
Arachnodactyly
Pulseless disease
Monoclonal antibody spike
Charcot - Leyden Crystals - (eosinophil membranes)


42. Congenital Conjugated Hyperbilirubinemia

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43. Transmits Trypanoma cruzi (Chagas’ disease): Romanaa Sign
Reduviid bug bite: Microbiology
Cartilage damage
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Only ssDNA: microbiology


44. MEN type IIa (Sipple's syndrome)
Pheochromocytoma and amyloid producing medullary thyroid carcinoma
Elastic skin
Nephritis
Nystagmus - Intention Tremor - Scanning Speech


45. Alcoholism -
Autoantibodies against alveolar and glomerular basement membrane proteins
Boutonniere deformity
Bagassosis
Fatty liver


46. B. Anthracis & C. Perfringens -
Brushfield's spots
Non Motile Bacilli & Clostridium: Microbiology
Hair - on - end appearance on XR
Call Exner Bodies - (spaces filled with eosinophilic fluid and basement membrane material)


47. Chediak - Higashi Disease
Antigliadin antibodies
Cherry- Red spot on Macula
Multi Brain Abscess: Microbiology
Phagocyte Deficiency


48. 'A30Phenylalanine - Trytophan - Isoleucine' -
Keto & Gluco amino acids
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Resistant: Microbiology
Russell Bodies
Green frothy foul vaginal discharge


49. Multiple myeloma -
S3 in Heart Auscultation
Alpha Hemolysis/Optochin Sensitive: Microbiology
Lytic bone lesions on XR
Bacitracin sensitive: Microbiology


50. Predisposition to gastric carcinoma -
Sabrands: Microbiology
Codman's triangle on XR
Pleuritic chest pain relieved by sitting forward
Chronic atrophic gastritis