RR - key associations Flashcards
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Actinic (solar) keratosis
Precursor to squamous cell carcinoma
Acute gastric ulcer associated w/ CNS injury
Cushing’s ulcer (increased ICP stimulates vagal gastric secretion)
Acute gastric ulcer associated w/ severe burns
Curling ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)
Alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon
Skip lesions (Crohn’s)
Aneurysm, dissecting
Hypertension
Aortic aneurysm, abdominal and descending aorta
Atherosclerosis
Aortic aneurysm, arch
Tertiary syphilis, vasa vasorum destruction
Aortic aneurysm, ascending
Marfan’s (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration)
Atrophy of mammillary bodies
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia and confusion)
Autospenectomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)
Sickle cell
Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and stomach cancer
H. pylori
Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)
S. pneumo
Bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)
Group B strep (newborns), S. pneumo/N. meningitidis (kids)
Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency
Bernard soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vW factor)
Brain tumor (adults)
Supratentorial: metastasis > astrocytoma (including GBM) > meningioma > schwannoma
Brain tumor (kids)
Infratentorial: medulloblastoma (cerebellum)
Supratentorial: craniopharyngioma
Breast cancer
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in the US, 1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer)
Breast mass
Fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)
Breast tumor (benign)
Fibroadenoma
Cardiac primary tumor (kids)
Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis
Cardiac manifestation of lupus
Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of mitral valve)
Cardiac tumor (adults)
Metastasis, primary myxoma (4:1 left to right atrium; “ball and valve”)
Cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus or syringomyelia)
Chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)
predisposes to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)