Rheumatology & Haematology — Flashcards

_____ is used for staging and assessing treatment response in lymphomas

Hint: Investigation

_____ lymph node biopsy is preferred in Hodgkin's lymphoma

What are the B symptoms? _____, Drenching night sweats, Unintentional weight loss of >10% over 6 months

Hodgkin's lymphoma with _____ lymph node involvement may experience dyspnoea or chest pain

Hint: area

Organise a 2-week-wait referral for patients with _____ or Bence-Jones protein urine test results suggestive of myeloma

Hint: Ix

_____ related to lymphoma may cause recurrent infections or bleeding

Hint: What pathological process

The diagnostic criteria for myeloma can be remebered using the SLiM CRAB mnemonic. A individual with _____ AND any 1 of the following has myeloma: ≥ Sixty % plasma cells in marrow Light chain ratio ≥100 ≥ 1 focal lesion ≥5mm on MRI HyperCalcaemia Renal impairment Anaemia: Hb <100 g/L or 20g below normal Bone involvement (lytic lesion, osteoporosis, pathological fractures)

End stage progression of myeloma may be reduced with long term use of _____

Hint: Pharmacological

What are the 2 types of Bence-Jones proteins? _____

Hint: 2

The features of myeloma can be memorised using the CRABBI mnemonic: _____

Hint: C R A B B I