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what does chronic atrophic gastritis predispose to? - ANS ✓gastric
carcinoma
Chvostek's sign - what is it, and what does it indicate? - ANS ✓facial
muscle spasm upon tapping - sign of hypocalcaemia
DES exposure in utero predisposes to what? - ANS ✓clear cell
adenocarcinoma of the vagina
clue cells - diagnosis? - ANS ✓Gardnerella vaginitis
Codman's triangle on x-ray - diagnosis? - ANS ✓osteosarcoma
cold agglutinins - possible diagnoses? - ANS ✓Mycoplasma pneumonia
or infectious mononucleosis
cold intolerance - sign of what? - ANS ✓hypothyroidism
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condylomata lata - diagnosis? - ANS ✓secondary syphilis
continuous machinery murmur - indicates what? - ANS ✓patent ductus
arteriosus
what is the defect in Cori's disease? - ANS ✓debranching enzyme
deficiency
cough, conjunctivitis, coryza, fever - diagnosis? - ANS ✓measles
Councilman bodies - diagnosis? - ANS ✓toxic or viral hepatitis
Cowdry type A bodies - caused by what? - ANS ✓herpesvirus
crescents in Bowman's capsule - diagnosis? - ANS ✓rapidly progressive
crescentic glomerulonephritis
what is Crigler-Najjar syndrome? - ANS ✓congenital unconjugated
hyperbilirubinemia - due to absent UDP glucuronyl transferase
acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns - ANS ✓Curling's ulcer
currant-jelly sputum - diagnosis? - ANS ✓Klebsiella
Curschmann's spirals - diagnosis?
- what are they? - ANS ✓bronchial asthma - whorled mucous plugs
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acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury - ANS ✓Cushing's ulcer
D-dimers - diagnosis? - ANS ✓DIC
depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra - diagnosis?
- where is the defect?
- symptoms? - ANS ✓Parkinson's disease - basal ganglia disorder
- rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia
dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea - diagnosis? - ANS ✓pellagra
(niacin/vitamin B3 deficiency)
dog or cat bite - infected with? - ANS ✓Pasteurella multocida
what is Dressler's syndrome? - ANS ✓post-MI fibrinous pericarditis
what is Dubin-Johnson syndrome?
- what is the defect?
- what is the pathologic consequence? - ANS ✓congenital conjugated
hyperbilirubinemia - due to defective liver excretion of conjugated
bilirubin, causing black liver
what is the defect in Duchenne's muscular dystrophy?
- what is the inheritance pattern? - ANS ✓deleted dystrophin gene - X-
linked recessive
eburnation - diagnosis? - ANS ✓osteoarthritis
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trisomy 18 associated with rocker-bottom feet, low-set ears, heart
disease - ANS ✓Edwards' syndrome
what is Eisenmenger's complex? - ANS ✓late cyanosis shunt (reversal of
an uncorrected L-R shunt to an R-L shunt)
elastic skin - diagnosis? - ANS ✓Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
where and what is Erb-Duchenne palsy? - ANS ✓superior trunk injury to
brachial plexus (C5-6) - "waiter's tip"
erythema chronicum migrans - diagnosis? - ANS ✓Lyme disease
genetically inherited aplastic anemia - ANS ✓Fanconi's anemia
what is Fanconi's syndrome? - ANS ✓proximal tubular reabsorption
defect (causes excretion of many things - leads to, among other things,
rickets, metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia)
"fat, female, forty, and fertile" - at risk for? - ANS ✓acute cholecystitis
fatty liver - associated with? - ANS ✓alcoholism
ferruginous bodies - diagnosis? - ANS ✓asbestosis
colon polyps with osteomas and soft tissue tumors - diagnosis? - ANS
✓Gardner's syndrome
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