Pathognomics Abialbon

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Actinic keratosis Preceeds squamous cell carcinoma
Albuminocytologic dissociation Guillan-Barre (incr. Protein in CSF w/
modest incr. In cell count)
Atrophy of mammillary bodies Wernicke's encephalopathy
Anti-basement membrane Goodpasture's
Anticentromere ab Scleroderma (CREST)
Anti-double-stranded dna ab (ana) SLE (type III hypersens)
Antiepithelial cell Pemphigus vulgaris
Antigliadin ab Celiac disease (sprue)
Antihistone ab Drug-induced SLE
Anti-igg ab Rheumatoid arthritis
Antimitochondrial ab Primary biliary cirrhosis
Antineutrophil ab Vasculitis
Antiplatelet ab Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Arachnodactyly Marfan's syndrome
Argyll-robertson pupil Neurosyphilis
Aschoff bodies Rheumatic fever
Auer rods AML
Autosplenectomy Sickle cell
Babinski sign Upper motor neuron lesion
Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa Rheumatoid arthritis
<escaped synovial fluid>
"Bamboo spine" on x-ray Ankylosing spondylitis

Basophilic stippling of rbcs Lead poisoning

Bence-jones proteins Multiple myeloma (kappa or lambda Ig
light chains in urine), Waldenstroem's
macroglobulinemia (igm)
Bilateral hilar adenopathy, uveitis Sarcoidosis
Birbeck granules on em Histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma)
<tennis rackets>
Bloody tap on lp Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Blue bloater Chronic bronchitis
Blue-domed cysts Fibrocystic change of the breast
Blue sclera Osteogenesis imperfecta
Boot-shaped heart on x-ray Tetralogy of Fallot; RV hypertrophy
Bouchard's nodes Osteoarthritis
<PIP swelling secondary to osteophytes>
Boutonniere deformity Rheumatoid arthritis
Branching rods in oral infection Actinomyces israelii
Brown tumor of bone Hyperparathyroidism; osteitis fibrosa
cystica (von Recklinghausen's disease of
bone)
Brushfield spots Down's syndrome
<Pale spots of peripheral iris>
Bruton's lines Lead poisoning
C-anca Wegener's granulomatosis
P-anca Polyarteritis nodosa
Café-au-lait spots Neurofibromatosis
Calf pseudohypertrophy Duchenne's MD
Call-exner bodies Granulosa/thecal cell tumor of
ovary<extracellular multilaminated bodies
among granulosa cells>
Cardiomegaly w/ apical atrophy Chagas' disease
Cerebriform nuclei > mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell
lymphoma)
Chancre Prmary syphillis (not painful)
Chancroid Haemophilus ducreyi (painful)
Charcot's triad MS (nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning
speech),
or…cholangitis (jaundice, RUQ pain,