Systemic Pathology — Flashcards

Is polycystic kidney disease heritable? _____

Subarachnoid hemorrhage is associated with increased risk of developing communicating high pressure and/or obstructive _____

Which type of esophageal cancer (SCC or adenocarcinoma) is associated with esophageal web (e.g. Plummer-Vinson syndrome)? _____

Acute tubular necrosis may be caused by high levels of _____ (e.g. tumor lysis syndrome)

Periductal mastitis presents as a subareolar mass with _____ due to pull from myofibroblasts during healing

Proteus mirabilis is a gram negative bacteria that classically forms large, _____ (form from struvite stones) in the renal pelvis

Chronic osteomyelitis may be seen on X-ray as a _____ focus of bone destruction containing a sequestrum (necrotic bone) and surrounded by an involucrum (new bone).

In addition to ascending UTI (most common), acute pyelonephritis may be caused by _____ spread to the kidney

Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis is characterized by enlarged and _____-cellular glomeruli on light microscopy

Hereditary spherocytosis is most often inherited in an _____ pattern