Pathology

Question 1

Which type of collagen is seen in the IVD (more specifically the nucleus)?

Answer 1

Type 2

Question 2

Which type of collagen is seen in early wound healing?

Answer 2

Type 3

Question 3

Silicosis AKA?

Answer 3

Rocky Quarry disease

Question 4

Histoplasmosis AKA?

Answer 4

Mississippi/Ohio valley fever
*fungus endemic
Coccidiomycosis is a fungus endemic in the southwest AKA San Joaquin Valley Fever

Question 5

Charcot Leyden crystals are seen with…

Answer 5

Bronchial asthma (type I HS)
AKA Curshmann's spirals

Question 6

MCC of hydronephrosis?

Answer 6

Prostate problems or ureter stones

Question 7

Mixed tumor of the kidney in children?

Answer 7

Wilm’s

AKA nephroblastoma

Question 8

HPV 16 virus

Answer 8

Cervical cancer

Question 9

Cryptochiasm

Answer 9

Undesended testes

Question 10

3 signs of congenital syphilis?

Answer 10

Hutchinson’s teeth AKA Shoe-peg teeth
Saddle-nose deformity
Sabre blade tibia

Question 11

MCC of pelvic inflammatory disease?

Answer 11

Gonorrhea

*coffee-bean shaped, gram - diplococcus

Question 12

What is the mcc of death in children world wide?

Answer 12

Enteritis

*due to dehydration from diarrhea

Question 13

Intussusception definition?

Answer 13

Telescoping of the intestine do to rotovirus vaccine

Question 14

Plummer Vinson syndrome

Answer 14

Iron deficiency anemia, esophageal webbing

*esophageal webbing will cause difficulty swallowing

Question 15

Diabetes mellitus spine disease?

Answer 15

DISH

Question 16

“Bronze Diabetes”

Answer 16

Hemochromatosis

Question 17

Neurofibrillary tangles and a decrease in Acetylcholine is seen in which condition?

Answer 17

Alzheimer’s

Question 18

Which glioma has the best prognosis? Worst?

Answer 18

Atrocytoma = best 
Glioblastoma = worst (affects cerebrum)

Question 19

Freidreich’s ataxia are lesions of calcification where?

Answer 19

Spinocerebellar tract

Question 20

Leprosy AKA?

Answer 20

Hansen’s disease

Question 21

Neurofibromatosis AKA?

Answer 21

Von Recklinghausen’s disease
*Cafe au Lait spots “Coast of California appearance”
Dumbbell-shaped IVF

Question 22

“Coast of Maine”

Answer 22

Fibrous Dysplasia

Question 23

Lewy bodies seen in…

Answer 23

Parkinson’s AKA Paralysis agitans

Question 24

Syringomyelia will give ______ - like distribution of pins and needles.

Answer 24

Cape-like

*loss of pain and temp bilaterally

Question 25

Starry sky appearance seen in...

Answer 25

Burkett's lymphoma | *Epstein Barr virus

Question 26

Cancer of epithelial tissue?

Answer 26

Carcinoma | *spread by the lymph system

Question 27

Cancer that has not invaded the basement membrane?

Answer 27

Carcinoma in situ | *Leukoplakia in mouth from chewing tobacco

Question 28

Most common cancer in the sacrum?

Answer 28

Chordoma

Question 29

Only malignant tumor that crosses the joints?

Answer 29

Chordoma (malignancy of the notocord) | *mc in the sacrum

Question 30

Benign tumor with the "ground-glass" appearance?

Answer 30

Fibrous dysplasia | *with early puberty = Albright's disease

Question 31

Which disease is fibrous dysplasia with precocious puberty?

Answer 31

Albright's disease

Question 32

Histiocytosis X AKA?

Answer 32

Hans-Schuller-Christian Disease *Eosinophilic granuloma "vertebra plana"- uniform body collapse

Question 33

Cancer of the stomach that metastasizes to the ovaries, with a signature "ring cell tumor"?

Answer 33

Krukenberg's

Question 34

Cancer of connective tissue?

Answer 34

Sarcoma | *cancer of epithelial tissue = carcinoma

Question 35

Where is the mc place in the lung for an emboli to end up?

Answer 35

In the periphery

Question 36

Von Gierke's disease lacks the enzyme ___________ in the liver.

Answer 36

Glucose-6-phosphotase | *glycogen storage disease

Question 37

Excess glucocerebrosides i the brain, liver, and spleen usually seen in Ashkenosi Jews is known as...

Answer 37

Gaucher's disease

Question 38

Krabbe's disease

Answer 38

Excess galactocerebrosides

Question 39

Niemann Pick Disease is an increase in...

Answer 39

Sphingomyelinase

Question 40

An increase in gangliosides in the brain due to a hexosaminidase A deficiency is....

Answer 40

Tay Sach's disease | *will present with cherry red spots on the macula. MC in Ashkenosi Jews (eastern european)

Question 41

What is the mcc of mild mental retardation?

Answer 41

Fragile X

Question 42

47XXY

Answer 42

Kleinfelter's

Question 43

Turner's

Answer 43

45X0 | "she can't turn her neck"

Question 44

Myositis ossificans in the adductors of the thigh is known as ________ disease?

Answer 44

Prussian's disease