Key associations Flashcards
(134 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 H+ secretion)
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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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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), vasa vasorum destruction
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aortic aneurysm, thoracic
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marfan syndrome (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
8
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aortic dissection
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hypertension
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atrophy of the mammillary bodies
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wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine 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 stomach cancer
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H. pylori
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bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
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bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
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group B streptococcus/E. Coli (newborns), S. pneumoniar/Neisseria meningitidis (kids)
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benign melanocytic nevus
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spitz nevus (most common in first two decades)
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bleeding disorder with Gp1b deficiency
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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor)
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brain tumor (adults)
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supratentorial: metastasis> astrocytoma (including lioblastoma multiforme)> meningioma>schwannoma
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brain tumor (kids)
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infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
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breast cancer
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infiltrating ductal carcinoma
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breast mass
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fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
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breast tumor (benign)
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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 manifestation of lupus
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Libman-sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve
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cardiac tumor (adults)
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metastasis, primary myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium; “ball and valve”)
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cerebellar tonsillar herniation
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chiari II malformation
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chronic arrhythmia
atrial fibrillation (associated with high risk of 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, hypotention
21-hydroxylase deficiency
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congenital cardiac anomaly
VSD
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congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (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)
- adrenocortical adenoma (secretes excess cortisol)
- ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (Cushing disease)
- paraneoplastic (due to ACTH secretion by tumors)
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cyanosis (early; less common)
Tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great vessels, truncus arteriosis
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cyanosis (late; more common)
VSD, ASD, PDA
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death in CML
blast crisis
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death in SLE
lupus nephropathy
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dementia
Alzheimer 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
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dietary deficit
iron
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diverticulum in pharynx
Zenker diverticulum (diagnosed by barium swallow)
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ejection click
aortic stenosis
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esophageal cancer
squamous cell carcinoma (worldwide);
| adenocarcinoma (U.S.)
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food poisoning (exotoxin mediated)
S. aureus, B cereus
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glomerulonephritis (adults)
Berger disease (IgA nephropathy)
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gynecologic malignancy
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endometrial carcinoma (most common in U.S.);
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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helminth infection (U.S.)
Enterobius 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 hepatocellular carcinoma)
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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 (all present with lower back pain)
ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, ulcerative colitis (IBD), psoriatic arthritis
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HLD-DR3
diabetes mellitus type 1, SLE, Grave's disease, Hashimoto thryroiditis
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HLA-DR4
diabetes mellitus type 1, rheumatoid arthritis
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holosystolic murmur
VSD, tricuspid regurgitaion, mitral regurgitation
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hypercoagulability, endothelial damage, blood stasis
Virchow triad (increased risk of thrombosis)
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secondary HTN
renal disease
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hypoparathyroidism
accidental excision during thyroidecomy
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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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infections in chronic granulomatous disease
S.aureus, E. coli, aspergillus (all catalse +)
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intellectual disability
Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome
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kidney stones
- uric acid = radiolucent
- calcium= radiopaque
- struvite (ammonium)= radiopaque (formed by urease + organisms such as Klebsiella, proteus species, and S, saprophyticus)
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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 non-infectious 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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mitochondrial inheritance
disease occurs in both males and females
| disease inherited through females only
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mitral valve stenosis
rheumatic heart disease
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mixed (UMN and LMN) motor neuron disease
ALS
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myocarditis
Coxsacie 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
Kallmann syndrome (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia)
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nosocomial pneumonia
S. aureus, Pseudomonas, other enteric gram-negative rods
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obstruction of male urinary tract
BPH
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opening snap
mitral stenosis
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opportunistic infection in 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 in IV drug abuser
pseudomonas, candida, S. aureus
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ovarian tumor (benign, bilateral)
serous cystadenoma
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ovarian tumor (malignant)
serous cystadenocarcinoma
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pancreatitis (acute)
gallstones, alcohol
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pancreatitis (chronic)
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alcohol (adults)
cystic fibrosis (kids)
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pelvic inflammatory disease
C. trachomatis, N. gonorrhoeae
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patient with ALL/CLL/AML/CML
ALL: child
CLL:adult>60
AML:adult ~65
CML: adult 45-85
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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)
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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
adenomans, hyperplasia, carcinoma
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primary liver cancer
hepatocellular carcinoma (chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson disease)
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pulmonary hypertension
COPD
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recurrent inflammation/thrombosis of small/medium vessels in extremities
Buerger disease (strongly associated with tobacco)
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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 a pulmonary cause
cor pulmonale
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S3 heart sound
increased ventricular filling pressure (e.g. 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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STD
C. trachomatis (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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sites of atherosclerosis
abdominal aorta>coronary artery>popliteal artery> carotid artery
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stomach cancer
adenocarcinoma
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stomach ulcerations and high gastrin levels
Zoliinger-Ellison syndrome (gastrinoma of duodenum or pancreas)
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t(14;18)
follicular lymphomas (BCL-2 activation, anti-apoptotic oncogene)
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t(8;14)
Burkitt lymphoma (c-myc fusion, transcription factor oncogene)
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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 (malignant, radiosensitive)
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thyroid cancer
papillary carcinoma
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tumor in women
Leiomyoma (estrogen dependent, not precancerous)
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tumor in infancy
strawberry hemangioma (usually 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, Staphylococcus saprophyticus ( young women)
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vertebral compression fracture
osteoporosis type I: postmenopausal woman
| osteoporosis type II: elderly man or woman
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viral encephalitis affecting temporal lobe
HSV-1
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vitamin deficiency (U.S.)
folate (pregnant women are at high risk; body stores only 3 to 4 months supply; prevents neural tube defects)
