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1
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Three characteristics of apoptosis?

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1) Programmed cell death
2) esinophilis in cytoplasm + cell shrinkage and fragement
3) Cell membrane remains intact without inflammation

2
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What are functions of intrinsic apoptosis (mitochrondrial pathway) ?

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1) For tissue remodeling in embryogenesis

2) Regulated by Bcl-2 family

3
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What are the pathways for extrinsic cell death?

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1) Ligand receptor interations (TNF alpha)

2) Immune cell (cytotoxic)

4
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where is coagulative necrosis seen? Histology?

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1) Ischemia and infarct

2) Histology: Increased cytoplasmic binding of acidophilic dyes

5
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When is liquidefactive necrosis seen? Histology?

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1) Bacterial abcesses
2) Neutrophils release lysosomal enzymes that digest the tissues
3) Histology: neutrophils and cell debris are seen in bacterial infection

6
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When is caseous necrosis seen?

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1) TB and fungi
2) Granular debris
3) Fragmented cells and debris surrounded by lymphocytes and macrophages.

7
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When is fat necrosis seen?

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1) enzymatic (acute pancreatitis), saponification

2) Outline of fat cells with H an E stain

8
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When is fibrinoid necorisis seen?

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1) Seen in immune reactions, polyartritis nodosa
2) Giant cell temporal arteritis
3) Vessels are think and pink

9
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What are some changes with reversible cell injury?

this is reverisble with oxygen

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1) Cell swelling (Na K+ pump injury)
2) Membrane blebbing
3) Decrease glycogen, increase fat

10
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What are signs of irreversible cell injury?

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1) Mitochrondral permeability and vacuoloziation
2) Plasma membrane damage
3) Lysosomal rupture

11
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What are the organs most sensitive to hypoxia?

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1) Brain (ACA, MCA, PCA bondaries)
2) Heart
3) Kidney
4) Liver
5) Colon

12
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What are the different types of infarcts? Red vs. pale?

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Red, reperfusion injury, when there are multiple blood supplies (liver, lung, testes)

13
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What are the pale infarcts?

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1) Single ended arterial supply (heart, kidney, spleen)

14
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What are characteristics of inflammation?

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1) red, pain, heat, swelling, and loss of function

15
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What is the vascular vs cellular components of inflammation?

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1) vascular: increased permeability, and vasodilation

16
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What are the cellular componenets (acute) vs chronic?

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1) Acute is rapid onset, and short duration (can have resolution, abcess)
2) Monocytes, and macrophages, persistent destruction, and repair with blood vessel proliferation
(going to have scarring and amyloidosis)

17
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What is chromatolysis?

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1) Neuronal cell body, axonal injury (increased protein synthesis)
2) Round cellular swelling
Can have Wallerian degeneration (degeneration of axon distal to site of injury)

18
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What is dystrophic calcification?

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Calcium deposition secondary to injury or necrosis
(Aortic stenosis)
Tuberculosis in the lungs. Not associated with the level of Ca in the body

19
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What is metastatic calcification?

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Widespread deposition of Ca in normal tissue
1) Hyperparathyroidism
2) Sarcoidosis
Hyper vitamin D
3) Metastatic calcifications (pneumonitis), patients are NOT normocalcemic

20
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what are the steps of leucocyte extravasation?

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1) Margination and rolling
2) Tight binding
3) Diapedesis
4) Migration

21
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What is free-radical injury?

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1) Lipid peroxidation, protein modification, DNA breakage

22
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What are agents that initiate free radical injury?

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1) Radiation exposure
2) Drug metabolism
3) WBC

23
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What are diseases caused by free-radical injury?

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1) Retinopathy of prematurity
2) Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
3) Drug/toxicity carbon tetrachloride (heptotoxicity)
4) Metal toxicity (hemochromatosis)

24
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What is are possible causes of inhalation injury?

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1) Smoke
2) Fire
3) Small particles or irrtiants

25
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What are some examples of inhalation injury?

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1) Tracheobronchitis
2) edema
3) Pneumonia
4) ARDS

26
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What does bronchoscopy show on inhalation injury?

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1) edema
2) congestion
3) soot deposition

27
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How long for 80% of tensil strenth to be regained?

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3 months

28
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What are the differences between the hypertrophic vs keloid ?

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Hypertrophic

1) Increased collagen synthesis
2) Confined to borders of original wound
3) Can have regression
4) Infrequent re-occurrence

Keloid

1) Increaed collagen ++++
2) Disorganized
3) Beyond borders
4) Progressive growth

29
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Tissue mediator: PDGF?

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1) Secreted by actvated platelets and macrophages
2) Induces vascular remodelling
3) Stimulates fibroblasts

30
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Tissue mediator FGF?

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Stimulates angiogenesis

31
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Tissue mediator EGF?

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Stimulates cell growth

32
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Tissue mediator TFG-B ?

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Angiogenesis

33
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Metalloproteinases?

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Tissue remodelling

34
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VEGF?

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Stimulates angiogeneis.

35
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what are the stages of the wound healing?

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1) Inflammatory (3 days after the wound): clot formation, increased vessel permability, and tissue migration
2) Proliferative (day 3 to weeks later) fibroblasts, and myoblasts (deposition of granulation, collagen, and angiogenesis)
3) Remodelling: fibroblasts, and collagen 3 give tensile strength

36
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What are examples of granulomatous disease causes?

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1) Bacterial (mycobacteria, bartonella, listeria)
2) Fungal (endemic mycoses)
3) Parasites (schistosomiasis)
4) Autoinflammatory (sarcoidosis, Crohns, Primary bilary cirrhosis, Wegners), giant cell, Takayasu.
5) Foreigh matrial: berylloiosis, talcosis

37
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What are more common caused of caseating necrosis?

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Infectious (TB)

38
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How is sarcoidosis diagnosed?

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Need to do a biopsy of sarcoidosis. (of the granulomas)

39
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Characteristics of exudate vs transudate?

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Exudate vs transudate

1) Celluar vs hypocellular
2) Increased protein vs decreased protein and LDF
3) Specific gravity > 1.02 vs

40
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What causes the ESR to increase, and to decrease?

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Increase ESR vs Decrease ESR
Anemia  vs sickle cell
Infections vs polycythemia 
Inflammation vs Heart failure
Cancer vs microcytosis
Renal disease vs hypofibrinogenemia
41
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what is amyloidosis characterized by?

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Abnormal segregation of proteins into pleated sheets

42
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How is amyloidosis visualized ?

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By Congo stain

By Hand E stain

43
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What are 6 types of amyloidosis?

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1) AL (deposition of light chains)
2) AA (chronic inflammatory conditions sucj as RA, and IBD)
3) Dialysis related ( Fibrils of microglobulin)
4) Heritable: amyloid polyneuropathies
5) Age related: transthyretin deposited in the cardiac chambers
6) Organ specific: amyloidosis to a single organ

44
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What is lipofuscin?

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Normal wear and tear associated with aging.

In elderly person can be deposited in the heart, colon, or eye

45
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what is cellular change, atrophy?

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decrease tissue mass due to number of cells (disuse, denervation)

46
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What is cellular change hypertrophy?

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Increase in size of the cell

47
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What is cellular change of hyperplasia?

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Increase in number of cells (risk factor for future malignancy)

48
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What is cellular change of metaplasia?

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Replacement of one cell tyoe by another due to irritant.

49
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What is neoplasia?

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Clonal proliferation of cells, can be benign or malignant

50
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What is dysplasia?

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Disrodered, non neoplastic growth (only epithelial cells) severe displasia can lead to neoplasia

51
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What is cellular differentiation?

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The degree to which the malignant tumor resembles the tissue of origin. Poorly differentiated doesn’t look at all like the original tissue

52
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What is anaplasia?

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Complete lack of differentiation of cells in a malignant neoplasm.

53
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What are the stages of neoplastic progression?

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Normal cells to dysplasia, to carcinoma insity, to invasive carcinoma (This involves invasion of basement membrane using collagenase and hydrolase) Cell to cell contact lost by inactivation of E-Cadherin

54
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What are the seed and soil theory of metastasis?

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Seed:tumor embolus
Soil: Target the first organ encountered in the capillary bed

55
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What is the different between grade and stage of tumor?

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Degree of differentiation (low grade means highly differentiated)

Stage: Localized or spread

56
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What is the TNM staging?

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T = tumor size
N=Node involvement
M=Metastasis

57
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What does carcinoma suggest?

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Epithilial origin

58
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What does sarcoma suggest?

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Mesenchymal origin

59
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What does benign suggest?

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Well differentiated, well demarcated, low mitotic activity no mets

60
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What does malignancy suggest?

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Poor differentiation, erratic growth, local invasion, mets, decrease apoptosis

61
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what are the most common male cancers?

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1) Prostate
2) Lung
3) Colon

62
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What are most common female cancers?

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1) Breast
2) Lung
3) Colon

63
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What is the highest mortality for men (cancer)?

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1) Lung
2) Prostate
3) Colon

64
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what is the highest mortality of woman (cancer)?

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1) Lung
2) Breast
3) Colon

65
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What are 2 types of paraneoplastic syndromes?

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1) Acanthosis nigricans
2) Lser Trelat
3) Hypercalcemia
4) Cushing
5) Hyponatremia
6) Polycythemia
7) Red cell aplasia
8) Good syndrome
9) Trousseacu
10) endocarditis sterile plaque
11) Anti-NMDA recepter encephalitis
12) Myoclonus ataxia
13) Paraneoplastic cerebeller degeneration
14) Paraneoplastic encephalomyletis
15) Lambert-Eaton mysanthenic
16) Mysanthia gravis

66
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What is acanthosis nigricans consist of?

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Hyperpigmented plaques in axilla

Associated with gastric adenocarcinoma (and other viscral malignancies) due to insulin resistance

67
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What are the signs of Leser Trelat? And association?

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1) Multiple seborrheic keratosis

2) Associated with GI adenocarcinomas

68
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What is the mechanism of hyercalcemia?

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1) Increased PTHrP or increased 1.25 OH vitamin D

2) Squameous cell carcinoma of the lung, head, and neck, renal bladder, breast and ovarian

69
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What is the mechanism of Cushing?

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1) Increased ACTH

2) Small cell lung cancer

70
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What is the mechanism of Hyponatremia?

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1) Increased ADH

2) Small cell lung cancer

71
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What is mechanism of polycythemia?

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1) Increased erythropoietin
2) Renal cell carcinoma
3) Hepatocellular carcinoma
4) Hemangioblastoma
5) Pheochromcytoma
6) Leiomyoma

72
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Mechanism of pure red aplasia?

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1) Anemia with low reticulocytes

2) Thymoma

73
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Mechanism good syndrome?

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1) Hypogammaglogulinemia

2) Thymoma

74
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Mechanism Trousseau syndrome?

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1) Migratroy superficial thrombophlebitis

2) Adenocarcinomas (pancreatic)

75
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Mechanism nonbacterial endocarditis?

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1) Sterile plaque thrombi

2) Adenocracinomas (pancreatic)

76
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Mechanism of Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis?

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1) Psychiatric disturbance, memory deficits, seizures, dyskinesias, autonomic instability, langage dysfunction
2) Ovarian teratoma

77
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Mechanism of Opsoclonus, myoclonus ataxia syndrome?

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1) Dancing eyes, Dancing feet

2) Neuroblastoma, small cell cancer

78
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Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration?

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1) Antibodies against Hu, Yo, Tr Antigens in Purkinje cells
2) Small cell cancer
3) Gynecological and breast, Hodgekins

79
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Mechanism of paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis?

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1) Antibodies against Hu antigens and neurons

2) Small cell lung cancer

80
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what are causes of Lambert-Eaton mysanthenic syndrome?

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1) Antibodies against presynaptic (P/Q type) Ca 2+

2) Small cell lung cancer

81
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What are causes of mysanthia gravis?

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1) Antibodies against post synaptic AChR at NMJ

2) Thymoma

82
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Oncogene associated with ALK?

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Lung adenocarcinoma

83
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Oncogene associated with BCR-ABL?

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CML, ALL

84
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Oncogene with BCL-2?

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Follicular and diffuse large B cell lymphoma

85
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Oncogene with BRAF?

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Melanona, non hodgkins

86
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Oncogene with c-kit?

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gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)

87
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Oncogene with m-MYC?

A

Burkitt’s lymphoma

88
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Oncogene with Her2/neu (c-erbB2)

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Breast and gastric carcinoma

89
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Oncogene with JAK 2?

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Chronic myeloproliferative disorders

90
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Oncogene with KRAS?

A

Colon
Lung
Pancreatic

91
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What is MYCL1?

A

Lung tumor

92
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What is MYCN?

A

Neuroblastoma

93
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What is RET?

A

Men 2A, and 2B

94
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What is APC?

A

Colorectal cancer

95
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What is BRCA1 and BRCA2?

A

Breast and ovarian cancer

96
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What is CDKN2A?

A

Melanoma and pancreatic cancer

97
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What is DCC?

A

Colon cancer (deleted in colon cancer)

98
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What is DPC 4/SMAD4?

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Pancreatic cancer

99
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What is MEN1?

A

Menin

100
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What is NF1?

A

Neurofibromatosis type 1

101
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What is NF2?

A

Neurofibormatosis type 2

102
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What is PTEN?

A

Breast cancer
Prostate cancer
Endometrial cancer

103
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What is rb?

A

Retinoblastoma, osteosarcoma

104
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What is TP53?

A

Most human cancers, Li-Fraumeni syndrome

105
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What is TSC1?

A

Tuberous sclerosis

106
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What is TSC2?

A

Tuberous sclerosis

107
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What is VHL?

A

von Hippel-Lindau disease

Renal cell carcinoma

108
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What is WT1/WT2?

A

Wilms Tumor.

109
Q

Oncogene microbe EBV?

A

Burkitt lymphoma
Hodgekin’s lymphoma
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
CNS lymphoma

110
Q

Oncogene HBV, HCV?

A

Hepatocellular carcinoma, lymphoma

111
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Oncogene HHV-8?

A

Karposi sarcoma

112
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Oncogene HPV?

A

Cervical, penile/anal carcinoma (type 16 and type 18)

113
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Oncogene H. Pylori?

A

Gastric Adenocarcinoma

MALT lymphoma

114
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Oncogene HTLV-1?

A

Adult T cell leukemia

115
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Oncogene Liver Fluke?

A

Cholangiocarcinoma

116
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Oncogene Schistosoma haematobium?

A

Bladder cancer (squamous cell)

117
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Carconogene: aflatoxins?

A

Hepatocellular carcinoma

118
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Carcinogen: Alkylating agent?

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Leukemia/lymphoma

119
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Carcinogen aromatic amines?

A

Bladder: transitional cell carcinoma

120
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Carcinogen Arsenic?

A

Angisarcoma
Lung Cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma

121
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Carcinogenn: Asbestos?

A

Lung

122
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Carcinogen tetrachloride?

A

Liver

Centrilobular necorisis

123
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Carcinogen: Cigarette Smoke?

A
Bladder
Cerivix
Esophagus
Kidney 
Larynx
Lung
Pancrease
124
Q

Carcinogen: ethanol ?

A

Esophagus

Liver

125
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Carcinogen: ionizing radiation?

A

Thyroid

126
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Carcinogen: niteosamines?

A

Stomach cancer

127
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Carcinogen: Radon?

A

Lung cancer

128
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Carcinogen: Vinyl Chloride?

A

Liver (angiosarcoma)

129
Q

When are Psammoma bodies seen?

A

Papillary carcinoma of thyroid
Serous papillary cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary
Mengingioma
Malignent mesothelioma

130
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What are serum tumor markers used for?

A

Cancer diagnosis and screening (however should not be used for number 1, instead, biopsy

Can be used for tumor reoccurrence and response to therapy

131
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Tumor marker: Alkaline phosphatase?

A

Mets to bone or liver
Paget disease
Seminoma ALP

132
Q

Alpha fetoprotein?

A

Hepatocellular carcinoma
Heptoblastoma
Yolk
Mixed germ cell tumor

133
Q

Tumor marker B-HCG?

A

Hydratiform moles
Choriocarcinomas
Testicular cancer
Mixed germ cell

134
Q

Tumor marker CA 15-3/CA 27-29?

A

Breast cancer

135
Q

Tumor marker CA 19-9?

A

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

136
Q

Tumor marker CA 125?

A

Ovarian Cancer

137
Q

Tumor marker: Calcitonin?

A

Medullary Thyroid carcinoma

138
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Tumor marker CEA?

A

CarcinoEmbyroicAntigen
Non specific
70% of pancreatic, gastric, breast

139
Q

Tumor marke PSA?

A

Prostate specific antigen

Questionable benefit for prostate screening

140
Q

Tumor marker p-glycoprotein?

A

Adrenal cell carcinoma

141
Q

What hormones cause Cachexia?

A

TNF
IFN-alpha
Il-1
Il-6

142
Q

How do sarcomas spread?

A

Hemtogenously

143
Q

How is carcinoma spread?

A

Lymphatics

144
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What are the most common brain mets?

A

Lung > Breast> prostate> melanoma> GI

145
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What are the most common liver mets?

A

Colon&raquo_space; stomach» pancrease

146
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What are the most common bone mets?

A

Prostate, breast > lung, thyroid, kidney

147
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what are the common types of breast mets?

A

Are usually mixed

148
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What are the common types of lung mets?

A

Mixed

149
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What are the types of kidney mets?

A

Lytic