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Pheochromocytoma: 3 most common symptoms

"PHEochromocytoma":
Palpitations
Headache
Edisodic sweating (diaphoresis)
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---Anonymous Contributor

Necrosis: the 4 types

"Life Can Get Complicated":
Liquifactive
Coagulation
Gangrene
Caseous
· 'Life' used since necrosis is 'death'.
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Thyroid carcinoma: features, prognosis of most popular

Most Popular is Papillary.
· Clinical features:
Papillae (branching)
Palpable lymph nodes
"Pupil" nuclei (Orphan Annie)
Psammoma bodies within lesion (often)
· Also, has a Positive Prognosis (10 year survival rate: 98%).
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---Anonymous Contributor

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: which has cobblestones

Crohn's has Cobblestones on endoscopy.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Gout: factors that can precipitate an attack of acute gouty arthritis

DARK:
Diuretics
Alcohol
Renal disease
Kicked (trauma)
· And, the attack occurs most often at night [thus "dark"].
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---Marc Miller Sackler School of Medicine

Paget's disease of bone: signs and symptoms

Four L's:
Larger hat size
Loss of hearing: due to compression of nerve
Leontiasis ossea (lion-like face)
Light-headed (Paget's steal)
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---Marc Miller Sackler School of Medicine

Wernicke-Korsakoff triad

Syndrome in alchoholics, who love to "drink CANs of beer":
Confusion
Ataxia
Nystagmus
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---Victor R. Carrion Zamoira Ponce School of Medicine

Wernicke-Korsakoff's psychosis: findings

COAT RACK:
· Wernicke's encephalopathy (acute phase):
Confusion
Ophthalmoplegia
Ataxia
Thiamine tx.
· Korsakoff's psychosis (chronic phase):
Retrograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Confabulation
Korsakoff's psychosis
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---HBV Morehouse School of Medicine

Atherosclerosis risk factors

"You're a SAD BET with these risk factors":
Sex: male
Age: middle-aged, elderly
Diabetes mellitus
BP high: hypertension
Elevated cholesterol
Tobacco
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---HBV Morehouse School of Medicine

Duchenne vs. Becker Muscular Dystrophy

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) : Doesn't Make Dystrophin.
Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD): Badly Made Dystrophin (a truncated protein).
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin