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Actinic Keratosis (Solar Keratosis) |
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Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma |
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Acute Gastric ulcer a/w CNS injury |
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Cushing's ulcer (Inc ICP => vagal gastric stimulation) |
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Acute gastric ulcer a/w sever burns |
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Curling's ulcer (Dec plasma volume => sloughing of gastric mucosa) |
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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal mucosa |
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Skip lesions (Crohn's dz) |
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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta |
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Aortic aneurysm, ascending |
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Marfan's syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration) |
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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies |
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Wernicke's encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency => ataxia, opthalmoplegia and confusion) |
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage) |
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Bacteria a/w gastritis, peptic ulcer dz and stomach cancer |
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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly) |
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Bacterial meningitis (newborns) |
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Bacterial meningitis (kids) |
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Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis |
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Spitz nevus (most common in the first two decades) |
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Bleeding disorder w/ GpIb deficiency |
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Bernard-Soulier disease (defect in adhesion to von Willebrand's factor) |
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Supratentorial: 1) Mets 2) Astrocytoma (incl. Glioblastoma Multiforme) 3) Meningioma 4) Schwannoma |
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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma |
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1 in 9 women in the US Most common: Infiltrating ductal carcinoma |
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1) Fibrocystic change 2) Carcinoma (in postmenopausal women) |
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Primary cardiac tumor (kids) |
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Rhabdomyoma (tuberous sclerosis) |
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Cardiac manifestation of Lupus |
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Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of Mitral valve) |
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1) Mets 2) Primary myxoma (4:1 in Rt Atrium, "ball and valve") |
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation |
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Chiari malformation (progressive hydrocephalus and syringomyelia) |
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AFib (a/w high risk of emboli) |
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune) |
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Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (may also cause pernicious anemia) |
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina |
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Osteoporosis (Type I: postmenopausal woman; type II: elderly man or woman) |
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension |
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21-hydroxylase deficiency |
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Congenital cardiac anomaly |
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Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver) |
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Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile) |
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Constrictive Pericarditis |
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Tuberculosis (Third world) Lupus (First world) |
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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis |
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1) Left anterior descending 2) Right Coronary Artery 3) Left Coronary Artery |
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Iodine deficit/hypothyroidism |
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1) Corticosteroid therapy (iatrogenic) 2) Excess ACTH secretion by pituitary 3) Small lung cell carcinoma |
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Cyanosis (early; less common) |
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Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus |
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Cyanosis (late; more common) |
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1) Alzheimer's 2) Multiple infarcts |
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Demyelinating dz in young women |
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Gram-negative sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burn trauma |
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Zenker's diverticulum (dx w/ barium swallow) |
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Aortic/pulmonary stenosis |
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Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); adenocarcinoma (US) |
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated) |
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Staphylococcus aureus Bacillus cereus |
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Glomerulonephritis (adults) |
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Berger's Dz (IgA nephropathy) |
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Endometrial carcinoma (worldwide) Adenocarcinoma (US) |
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