often precedes squamous cell carcinoma - actinic keratosis
primary adrenocortical deficiency - Addison's disease
polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, cafe-au-lait spots, short stature, young girls -
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often precedes squamous cell carcinoma - actinic keratosis
primary adrenocortical deficiency - Addison's disease
polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, precocious puberty, cafe-au-lait spots, short stature, young girls -
diagnosis? - Albright's syndrome
hereditary nephritis with nerve deafness - Alport's syndrome
anti-basement membrane antibodies - diagnosis? - Goodpasture's syndrome
anticentromere antibodies - diagnosis? - scleroderma (CREST)
anti-double-stranded DNA antibodies (ANA antibodies) - diagnosis?
- what hypersensitivity type? - SLE - type III hypersensitivity
anti-epithelial cell antibodies - diagnosis? - pemphigus vulgaris
antigliadin antibodies - diagnosis? - celiac disease
antihistone antibodies - diagnosis? - drug-induced SLE
anti-IgG antibodies - diagnosis? - rheumatoid arthritis
antimitochondrial antibodies - diagnosis? - primary biliary cirrhosisantineutrophil antibodies - diagnosis? - vasculitis
antiplatelet antibodies - diagnosis? - idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
arachnodactyly - diagnosis? - Marfan's syndrome
Argyll-Robertson pupil - diagnosis? - neurosyphilis
Arnold-Chiari malformation - cerebellar tonsillar herniation
Aschoff bodies - diagnosis? - rheumatic fever
atrophy of the mammillary bodies - diagnosis? - Wernicke's encephalopathy
Auer rods - diagnosis? - acute myelogenous leukemia (especially promyelocytic type)
autosplenectomy - diagnosis? - sickle cell anemia
Babinski's sign is associated with what? - UMN lesion
"bamboo spine" on x-ray - ankylosing spondylitis
basophilic stippling of RBCs - diagnosis? - lead poisoning
defective dystrophin, less severe than Duchenne's - Becker's muscular dystrophyLMN CN VII palsy - Bell's palsy
Bence Jones proteins - possible diagnoses?
- in each case, what are the proteins? - multiple myeloma - kappa or lambda light chains
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia - IgM
IgA nephropathy - diagnosis? - Berger's disease
Bernard-Soulier disease - what is the defect? - defect in platelet adhesion
bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis - diagnosis? - sarcoidosis
Birbeck granules on EM - diagnosis? - histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma)
bloody tap on LP - diagnosis? - subarachnoid hemorrhage
"blue bloater" - chronic bronchitis
blue-domed cysts - diagnosis? - fibrocystic change of the breast
blue sclera - diagnosis? - osteogenesis imperfecta
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