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Actinic (solar) keratosis

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precursor to squamous cell carcinoma

2
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acute gastric ulcer associated with CNS injury

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cushing’s ulcer (increased intracranial pressure stimulates vagal gastric secretion)

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acute gastric ulcer associated with severe burns

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Curling’s ulcer (greatly reduced plasma volume results in sloughing of gastric mucosa)

4
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alternating areas of transmural inflammation and normal colon

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skip lesions, characteristic of crohn’s

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dissecting aneurism

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hypertension

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aortic aneurism, abdominal and descending aorta

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atherosclerosis

7
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aortic aneurism, arch

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tertiary syphilis (syphilitic aortitis), vasa vasorum destruction

8
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aortic aneurism, ascending

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Marfan’s (idiopathic cystic medial degeneration

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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies

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Wernicke’s encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, opthalmoplegia, and confusion)

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Autospenectiomy (fibrosis and shrinkage)

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Sickle cell anemia (Hb S)

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Bacteria associated with gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, and stomach cancer

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H. pylori

12
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Bacterial meningitis (adults and elderly)

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strep pneumo

13
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bacterial meningitis (newborns and kids)

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Group B strep (newborns), S. pneumo/neisseria meningtitidis (kids)

14
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Benign melanocytic nevus

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spitz nevus (most common in first two decades

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Bleeding disorder with GpIb deficiency

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Bernard-Soulier syndrome (defect in platelet adhesion to vWb factor)

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Brain tumor (adults)

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supratentorial: metastasis? astrocytoma (including glioblasoma multiforme)>meningioma>achwannoma

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brain tumor (kids)

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infratentorial:medulloblastoma (cerebellum) or supratentorial: craniopharyngioma (cerebrum)

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Breast cancer

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infiltrating ductal carcinoma (in US, 1/9 women will develop breast cancer)

19
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Breast mass

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fibrocystic change, carcinoma (in postmenopausal women)

20
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Brast tumor (benign)

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fibroadenoma

21
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Primary cardiac tumor, kids

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Rhabdomyoma, often seen in tuberous sclerosis

22
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cardiac manifestation of lupus

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Libman-Sacks endocarditis (nonbacterial, affecting both sides of the mitral valve

23
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Cardiac tumor (adults)

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Metastasis, primary myxoma

24
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cerebellar tonsillar herniation

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chiari malformation (often presents with progressive hydrocephalus or syringomyelia)

25
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chronic arrhythmia

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atrial fibrillation (and associate risk of embolism)

26
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chronic atrophic gastritis (autoimmune)

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predisposition to gastric carcinoma (can also cause pernicious anemia)

27
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clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina

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DES exposure in utero

28
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Compression fracture

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ostroporosis (type I: postmenopausal women, type II: elderly man or woman)

29
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congenital adrenal hyperplasia, hypotension

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21-hydroxylase deficiency

30
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congenital cardiac abnormailty

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ventricular septal defect (VSD)

31
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congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver)

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Dublin Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile

32
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Constrictive pericarditis

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tuberculosis (developing world), SLE (developed world)

33
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Coronary arteries involved in thrombosis

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LAD>RCA>LCA

34
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cretinism

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iodine deficit/hypothyroidism