Path Eye

Question 1

Viruses that can cause conjunctivitis

Answer 1

adenovirus and Herpes simplex

Question 2

bacteria that can cause conjunctivitis

Answer 2

Opthalmia noenaturum

Question 3

neoplasms that can cause conjunctivitis

Answer 3

Squamus cell carcinoma, melanoma

Question 4

small raised pale yellow-tan nodule, usually nasal

Answer 4

pinguecula

Question 5

triangular vascularized growth onto cornea from nasal limbus

Answer 5

pterygium

Question 6

most common type of glaucoma

Answer 6

open angle

Question 7

glaucoma more common in blacks

Answer 7

open angle

Question 8

cause of close angle glaucoma

Answer 8

physical obstruction of outflow tract by peripherial iris, causing increased intraocular pressure

Question 9

sx of closed angle glaucoma

Answer 9

pain, redness,photophobia, decreased vision, fixed, mid-dilated pupil

Question 10

what can trigger sx in closed angle glaucoma

Answer 10

being in a dark room for a long time

Question 11

sx of open angle glaucoma

Answer 11

arcuate visual field loss

Question 12

types of cataracts

Answer 12

nuclear, cortical, or subcapsular

Question 13

causes of adult cataracts

Answer 13

sun exposure, diabetes, steroids

Question 14

causes of congenital cataracts

Answer 14

rubella, CMV

Question 15

vascular causes of retainopathy

Answer 15

diabetes, hypertension, vessel occulsion

Question 16

worse form of macular degeneration

Answer 16

wet

Question 17

most common cause of macular degeneration

Answer 17

dry

Question 18

drusen on a thick, possibly calcified bruch’s membrane is..

Answer 18

dry macular degeneration

Question 19

subretinal choroidal neovascular membrane breaks through bruche’s membrane - causing hemorrage and scar

Answer 19

wet macular degeneration

Question 20

causes os optic disc edema

Answer 20

malignant hypertension, optic neuropathy, elevated ICP

Question 21

histopathologic signs of optic disc edema

Answer 21

elevation of optic disc, displacement of retina at disc margin, neerve fiber layer menorrhages at disc margin, cotton wool microinfarcts

Question 22

mutation causing retinoblastoma

Answer 22

RB gene on 13q14 (both alleles need be mutated)

Question 23

type of gene RB is

Answer 23

tumor suppressor

Question 24

clinical features of retinoblastoma

Answer 24

white pupil, strabismus

Question 25

most common secondary tumor wound in germline retinoblastoma

Answer 25

osteosarcoma

Question 26

histology of retinoblastoma

Answer 26

rosettes, fleurette, pseudorosette

Question 27

adverse prognstic findings

Answer 27

invasion into choroid and/or optic nerve, extraocular extension, diffuse and/or growth anterior to equator

Question 28

most common primary eye malignancy in adults

Answer 28

melanoma

Question 29

histology of eye melanoma

Answer 29

spindle cells, epitheliloid cells, necrosis

Question 30

adverse prognosis in eye melanoma

Answer 30

extraocular extension, large tumor, eppitheloid type, closed loop patterns, metastatses

Question 31

most common sites of melamona mets

Answer 31

liver, lung, brain, bone, GI