Systemic Pathology — Flashcards

Flashcard 421: Diagnosis of _____ glomerulonephritis may be aided by positive strep titers/serologies

Answer: post-streptococcal

Flashcard 422: The hereditary form of renal cell carcinoma classically rises in _____

Answer: younger adults

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Flashcard 423: Which autoimmune disease may present with immunofluorescence and liquefactive degeneration/edema at the dermoepidermal skin junction? _____

Answer: SLE

Extra: * Between layer of dermis and epidermis

Flashcard 424: Pityriasis versicolor is characterized by _____ patches on a patient's skin

Answer: hyper- or hypo-pigmented

Flashcard 425: Acute tubular necrosis is associated with _____ casts in the urine

Answer: granular "muddy brown"

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Flashcard 426: Osteoarthritis is characterized by fragments of cartilage floating in the joint space, called "_____"

Answer: joint mice

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Flashcard 427: In alpha thalassemia intermedia, precipitation of Hemoglobin H into inclusion bodies may result _____ hemolysis

Answer: extravascular

Extra: * Hemoglobin H disease (alpha thalassemia INTERMEDIA)(caused by 3 alpha subunit deletions)

Flashcard 428: Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is due to a mutation in the _____ gene

Answer: WASp

Flashcard 429: _____ is caused by infarction of bone and marrow

Answer: Osteonecrosis (avascular necrosis)

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Flashcard 430: Hepatitis B virus results in _____ glomerulonephropathy > _____ glomerulonephropathy

Answer: membranous