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Path T3-Eponyms
PathT3Eponyms- Brain,Liver,GI
Question | Answer |
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CNS Tumor: Pseudopalisading around zones of necrosis | Glioblastoma Multiforme |
CNS Tumor: fried-egg appearance | Oligodendroglioma |
CNS Tumor: Rosenthal Fibers | Pilocytic Astrocytomas |
CNS Tumor: LOH1p, LOH1q | Pilocytic Astrocytomas, respond favorably to chemo. |
CNS Tumor: rostettes, perivascular pseudorosettes | Ependyoma |
CNS Tumor: whorls | Meningioma |
CNS Tumor: psammoma bodies | Meningioma |
Plexiform Neurofibroma | Pathognomonic for von Recklinghausen's Disease |
Charcot-Bouchard Aneurysms | microaneurysms in the brain. |
Lewy Bodies | Seen in Parkinsons. |
Glial Cytoplasmic Inclusions | Seen in all of the Multiple System Atrophy disorders |
Negri Body | Rabies. |
Increased IgG with oligoclonal bands | Seen in MS. |
rapidly eveolving quadriplegia | Central Pontine Myelinosis |
Arnold-Chiari Type II malformation | Seen in myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida). Elongation of vermis and brain stem b/c of their displacement into spinal cord, and see hydrocephalus. |
Mallory Bodies | Seen in Alcoholic Hepatitis |
cobblestone appearance in liver | Chronic non-progressive (persistent) hepatitis |
bridging necrosis with piecemeal necrosis | Chronic progressive (active) hepatitis |
Anti-smooth muscle and ANA | Type 1 Autoimmune Hepatitis |
Anti-LKM-1 | Type 2 Autoimmune Hepatitis |
Antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) | Primary Biliary Cirrhosis |
C282Y mutation | Hemochromatosis |
PAS+ diastase-resistant globules in hepatocytes | Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency |
Beading' on radiography | Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis |
Kayser-Fleischer Ring | Wilsons Disease |
Bronze Diabetes | Hemochromatosis |
Macrophage cytoplasm contains PAS+ granules | Whipple's Disease |
Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome | Gastrin-producing tumor. Causes PUD. |
Florid duct lesion | Primary Biliary Cirrhosis |
NOD2 mutation | implicated in Chron's Disease |
pANCA | found in 75% of Ulcerative Colitis, 11% of Chron's Disease |
ASCA (anti-saccharomyces cerevisiae) | elevated in Chron's Disease |
string sign/skip lesion | Chron's Disease |
linitis plastica | leather-bottle stomach - Stomach Cancer |
Krukenberg Tumor | Met of stomach cancer to ovary |
Saw-toother/Serrated profile | Hyperplastic polyps of colon |
pedunculated with slender stalk and rasberry-like heads | Tubular adenoma (neoplastic polyp) |
picket fence appearance | Tubular adenoma (neoplastic polyp) |
APC gene mutation | Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. |
Gardner Syndrome | FAP + fibromatosis |
Turcot Syndrome | FAP + Tumors of the CNS |
Lynch Syndrome | aka HNPCC |
PRSS1/SPINK1 mutations | Acute Pancreatitis |
K-RAS, p16 gene | Pancreatic Carcinoma |
Trousseau Sign | Migratory Thrombophlebitis seen in Pancreatic Carcinoma |
CA19-9 | serum marker used for diagnosis and follow-up of Pancreatic Carcinoma |
Whipple Operation | pancreatoduodenectomy - done in pancreatic carcinoma |
fat, female, forty, fertile | Gallstones! - specifically cholesterol stones. |
Porcelain Bladder | Ca2+ deposit in gallbladder wall in Acute Cholecystitis |
Rokitansky-Aschoff Sinuses | Seen in Chronic Cholecystitis |
Strawberry Gallbladder | Cholesterolosis - focal accumulation of cholesterol-laden macrophages in mucosa |
Mallory-Weiss Syndrome | Tears in gastroesophageal junction…alcoholics…vomitting |
volcano-like/mushroom-like pseudomembrane formation | seen in Pseudomembranous Colitis (caused by C. difficile - atb-associated colitis) |
most common cause of Intestinal obstruction | adhesions |
5-HIAA in urine | test for Carcinoid Syndrome |
Whipple's Triad | Seen in Insulinomas: attacks preciptated by fasting, low blood sugars, relieved by glucose. |
RET protooncogene on chromosome 10 | responsible for MEN 2 and 3. |
Conns Syndrome | aldosterone secreting adenoma |
Addison's Disease | destruction of adrenal cortex. Addisons = Adrenal Atrophy with Absence of All cortical hormones |
Stalk Effect | elevation of serum prolactin due to interference of normal inhibition (dopamine). Any suprasellar mass can cause this |
Sheehans Syndrome | postpartum pituitary necrosis. Anterior lobes double in size during pregnancy without increase in blood supply. Can see infarction due to obstetrical complications. Hypopituitarism. |
Plummers Syndrome | Toxic multinodular goiter. |
Struma Ovarii | Ovarian teratoma with ectopic thyroid |
Cretinism | caused by hypothyroidism in the young - mental retardation, short stature etc. |
Hurthle Cells | seen in Hashimotos Thyroiditis (AI primary hypothyroidism) |
Little orphan annie eyes | Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid |
psammoma bodies | Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid (also seen in Meningioma - CNS tumor) |