FA Key Associations Flashcards
(132 cards)
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Actinic (solar) keratosis
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Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
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Acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury
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Cushing Ulcer (increased intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric sloughing of gastric mucosa)
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Acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns
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Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
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Age Ranges of ALL/CLL/AML/CML
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ALL: child
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Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
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Skip lesions (Crohn disease)
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Aortic aneurysm, abdominal
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Atherosclerosis
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Aortic aneurysm, ascending or arch
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Tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vaso vasorum destruction
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Aortic aneurysm, thoracic
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Marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
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Aortic dissection
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Hypertension
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Atrophy of the mamillary bodies
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Wernicke encephalopathy (thaimine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)
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Autosplenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
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Sickle cell disease (hemoglobin S)
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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and gastric malignancies (eg. adenocarcinoma, MALToma)
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H. pylori
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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
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S. pneumoniae
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Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
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Group B strep/E coli (newborns)
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Bilateral ovarian metastases from gastric carcinoma
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Krukenburg tumor (mucin-secreting signet ring cells)
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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWF)
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Brain tumor in adults
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Supratentorial: metastasis, astrocytoma (including glioblastoma multiforme), meningioma, schwannoma
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Brain tumor in children
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Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or
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Breast cancer
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Invasive ductal carcinoma
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Breast mass
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Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmemopausal women)
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Breast tumor (benign, young woman)
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Fibroadenoma
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Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
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Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
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Cardiac manifestations of lupus
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Marantic/thrombotic endocarditis (nonbacterial)
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Cardiac tumor (adults)
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Metastasis, myxoma (90% in left atrium, “ball and valve”)
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Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari II malformation
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Chronic arrhythmia
Atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk emboli)
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Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
Predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)
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Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina
DES exposure in utero
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension
21-hydroxylase deficiency
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Congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
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Congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinema (black liver)
Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile)
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Constrictive pericarditis
TB (developing world); idiopathic, viral illness (developed world)
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Coronary artery involved in thrombosis
LAD > RCA > Circumflex
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Cretinism
Iodine deficit/congenital hypothyroidism
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Cushing syndrome
Iatrogenic- from corticosteroid therapy
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Cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetrology of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosus
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Death in CML
Blast crisis
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Death in SLE
Lupus nephropathy
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Dementia
Alzheimers disease, multiple infarcts (vascular dementia)
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Demyelinating disease in young women
Multiple sclerosis
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DIC
Severe sepsis, obstetric complications, cancer, burns, trauma, major surgery, acute pancreatitis, APL
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Diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosis by barium swallow)
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Ejection click
Aortic stenosis
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Esophageal cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide); Adenocarcinoma (US)
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Food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus, B. cereus
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Gastric cancer
Adenocarcinoma
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Glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
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Gynecologic malignancy
Endometrial carcinoma (most common in US); cervical carcinoma (most common worldwide)
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Heart murmur, congenital
Mitral valve prolapse
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Heart valve in bacterial endocarditis
Mitral > aortic (rheumatic fever), tricuspid (IV drug abuse)
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Helminthic infection (US)
Enterbius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides
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Hematoma - epidural
Rupture of middle meningeal artery (trauma; lentiform shaped)
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Hematoma - subdural
Rupture of bridging veins (crescent shaped)
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Hemochromatosis
Multiple blood transfusions or hereditary HFE mutation (can result in heart failure, bronze diabetes, and increased risk of HCC)
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Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cirrhotic liver (associated with hepatitis B and C and with alcoholism)
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Hereditary bleeding disorder
von Willebrand disease
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Hereditary harmless jaundice
Gilbert syndrome (benign congenital unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia)
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HLA-B27
Psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, IBD-associated arthritis, reactive arthritis (formerly Reiter syndrome)
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HLA-DR3
Diabetes mellitus type 1, SLE, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, Addison disease
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HLA-DR4
Diabetes mellitus type 1, rheumatoid arthritis, Addison disease
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Holosystolic murmur
VSD, tricuspid regurgitation, mitral regurgitation
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Hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis
Virchow triad (elevated risk of thrombosis)
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Hypertension, secondary
Renal artery stenosis, chronic kidney disease (eg. polycystic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy), hyperaldosteronism
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Hypoparathyroidism
Accidental excision during thyroidectomy
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Hypopituitarism
Pituitary adenoma (usually benign tumor)
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Infection secondary to blood transfusion
Hepatitis C
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Infection in chronic granulomatous disease
S. aureus, E coli, Aspergillus [catalase (+)]
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Intellectual disability
Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome
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Kidney stones
Calcium - radiopaque
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Late cyanotic shunt (uncorrected left to right becomes right to left)
Eisenmenger syndrome (caused by ASD, VSD, PDA; results in pulmonary hypertension/polycythemia)
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Liver disease
Alcoholic cirrhosis
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Lysosomal storage disease
Gaucher disease
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Male cancer
Prostatic carcinoma
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Malignancy associated with noninfectious fever
Hodgkin lymphoma
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Malignancy (kids)
ALL, medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
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Metastases to bone
Prostate, breast > lung > thyroid
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Metastases to brain
Lung > breast > genitourinary > melanoma > GI
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Metastases to liver
Colon >> stomach, pancreas
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Microcytic anemia
Iron deficiency
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Mitochondrial inheritance
Disease occurs in both males and females, inherited through females only
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Mitral valve stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
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Mixed (UMN + LMN) motor neuron disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Myocarditis
Coxsackie B virus
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Nephrotic syndrome (Adults)
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
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Nephrotic syndrome (Kids)
Minimal change disease
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Neuron migration failure
Kallman syndrome (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia)
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Nosocomial pneumonia
S. aureus. Pseudomonas, other enteric gram (+) rods
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Obstruction of male urinary tract
BPH
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Opening snap
Mitral stenosis
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Opportunstic infections with AIDS
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
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Osteomyelitis
S. aureus (most common overall)
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Osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease
Salmonella
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Osteomyelitis with IV drug use
Pseudomonas, Candida, S. aureus
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Ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral)
Serous cystademona
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Ovarian tumor (malignant)
Serous cystadenocarcinoma
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Pancreatitis (acute)
Gallstones, alcohol
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Pancreatitis (chronic)
Alcohol (adults), cystic fibrosis (kids)
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Pelvic inflammatory disease
C trochomatis, N gonorrhoeae
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Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) (BCR-ABL)
CML (may sometimes be associated with ALL/AML)
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Pituitary tumor
Prolactinoma, somatotropic adenoma
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Primary amenorrhea
Turner syndrome (45,XO or 45XO/46XX mosaic)
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Primary bone tumor (adults)
Multiple myeloma
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Primary hyperaldosteronism
Adenoma of adrenal cortex
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Primary hyperparathyroidism
Adenomas, hyperplasia, carcinoma
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Primary liver cancer
HCC (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson disease)
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Recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities
Buerger disease (strongly associated with tobacco smoking)
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Refractory peptic ulcers and high gastrin levels
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas), associated with MEN1
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Renal tumor
Renal cell carcinoma: associated with von Hippel-Lindau and cigarette smoking; paraneoplastic syndromes (EPO, renin, PTHrP, ACTH)
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Right heart failure due to pulmonary cause
Cor pulmonale
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S3 heart sound
Elevated ventricular filling pressure (eg. mitral regurgitation, HF), common in dilated ventricles
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S4 heart sound
Stiff/hypertrophic ventricle (aortic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy)
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Secondary hyperparathyroidism
Hypocalcemia of chronic kidney disease
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Sexually transmitted disease
C trochomatis (usually coinfected with N gonorrhoeae)
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SIADH
Small cell carcinoma of the lung
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Site of diverticula
Sigmoid colon
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Site of atherosclerosis
Abdominal aorta > coronary artery > popliteal artery > carotid artery
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t(14;18)
Follicular lymphoma (BCL-2 activation, anti-apoptotic oncogene)
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t(8;14)
Burkitt lymphoma (c-myc fusion, transcription factor)
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t(9;22)
Philadelphia chromosome, CML (BCR-ABL, activation, tyrosine kinase oncogene)
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Temporal arteritis
Risk of ipsilateral blindness due to occlusion of ophthalmic artery; polymyalgia rheumatica
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Testicular tumor
Seminoma (malignany, radiosensitive), elevated placental ALP
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Thyroid cancer
Papillary carcinoma (childhood irradiation)
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Tumor in women
Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent, non precancerous)
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Tumor of infancy
Strawberry hemangioma (grows rapidly and regresses spontaneously by childhood)
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Tumor of the adrenal medulla (adults)
Pheochromocytoma (usually benign)
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Tumor of the adrenal medulla (kids)
Neuroblastoma (malignant)
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Type of Hodgkin lymphoma
Nodular sclerosing (vs. mixed cellularity, lymphocytic predominance, lymphocytic depletion)
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Type of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
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UTI
E coli, S. saprophyticus (young women)
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Vertebral compression fracture
Osteoporosis (type I: postmenopausal woman; type II: elderly man or woman)
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Viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe
HSV-1
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Vitamin deficiency (US)
Folate (pregnant women are at high risk; body stores only 3-4 month supply; prevents neural tube defects)
