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\.often precedes squamous cell carcinoma - Answer- actinic keratosis
\.primary adrenocortical deficiency - Answer- Addison's disease
\.polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, cafe-au-lait spots, short stature, young girls -
diagnosis? - Answer- Albright's syndrome
\.hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness - Answer- Alport's syndrome
\.anti-basement membrane antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- Goodpasture's syndrome
\.anticentromere antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- scleroderma (CREST)
\.anti-double-stranded DNA antibodies (ANA antibodies) - diagnosis?
- what hypersensitivity type? - Answer- SLE - type III hypersensitivity
\.anti-epithelial cell antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- pemphigus vulgaris
\.antigliadin antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- celiac disease
,\.antihistone antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- drug-induced SLE
\.anti-IgG antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- rheumatoid arthritis
\.antimitochondrial antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- primary biliary cirrhosis
\.antineutrophil antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- vasculitis
\.antiplatelet antibodies - diagnosis? - Answer- idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
\.arachnodactyly - diagnosis? - Answer- Marfan's syndrome
\.Argyll-Robertson pupil - diagnosis? - Answer- neurosyphilis
\.Arnold-Chiari malformation - Answer- cerebellar tonsillar herniation
\.Aschoff bodies - diagnosis? - Answer- rheumatic fever
\.atrophy of the mammillary bodies - diagnosis? - Answer- Wernicke's encephalopathy
\.Auer rods - diagnosis? - Answer- acute myelogenous leukemia (especially promyelocytic
type)
\.autosplenectomy - diagnosis? - Answer- sickle cell anemia
,\.Babinski's sign is associated with what? - Answer- UMN lesion
\."bamboo spine" on x-ray - Answer- ankylosing spondylitis
\.basophilic stippling of RBCs - diagnosis? - Answer- lead poisoning
\.defective dystrophin, less severe than Duchenne's - Answer- Becker's muscular dystrophy
\.LMN CN VII palsy - Answer- Bell's palsy
\.Bence Jones proteins - possible diagnoses?
- in each case, what are the proteins? - Answer- multiple myeloma - kappa or lambda light
chains
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia - IgM
\.IgA nephropathy - diagnosis? - Answer- Berger's disease
\.Bernard-Soulier disease - what is the defect? - Answer- defect in platelet adhesion
\.bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis - diagnosis? - Answer- sarcoidosis
\.Birbeck granules on EM - diagnosis? - Answer- histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma)
\.bloody tap on LP - diagnosis? - Answer- subarachnoid hemorrhage
, \."blue bloater" - Answer- chronic bronchitis
\.blue-domed cysts - diagnosis? - Answer- fibrocystic change of the breast
\.blue sclera - diagnosis? - Answer- osteogenesis imperfecta
\.boot-shaped heart on x-ray - possible diagnoses? - Answer- tetralogy of Fallot or RVH
\.Bouchard's nodes - diagnosis?
- where are they located?
- why do they occur? - Answer- osteoarthritis - on PIP secondary to osteophytes
\.boutonniere deformity - diagnosis? - Answer- rheumatoid arthritis
\.branching rods in oral infection - diagnosis? - Answer- Actinomyces israelii
\."brown tumor" of bone - possible diagnoses?
- what causes the brown color? - Answer- hyperparathyroidism or osteitis fibrosa cystica (von
Recklinghausen's disease)
- color is due to hemorrhage in cysts
\.X-linked agammaglobulinemia - Answer- Bruton's disease
\.posthepatic venous thrombosis - diagnosis? - Answer- Budd-Chiari syndrome