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Term
Most common skin manifestation of RA
Definition
Rheumatoid Nodule
Term
Major cause of functional disability in kids
Definition
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Term
Major cause of primary gout
Definition
Decreased renal filtration and underexcretion
Term
Most common mesenchymal neoplasm of hand
Definition
Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath
Term
Most common dementia in the elderly
Definition
Alzheimer
Term
The 2 major microscopic findings in Alzheimer
Definition
Plaques and Tangles
Term
The most common cause of natural death in Huntington
Definition
Infection
Term
Most common molecular abnormality in oligodendrogliomas
Definition
Loss of 1p and 19q
Term
Choroid plexus papilloma, most common in whom and where?
Definition
Children, Lateral Ventricle
Term
Most common molecular alteration in medullablastoma
Definition
Loss of material from 17p
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Most common CNS neoplasm in immunosuppressed
Definition
Primary brain lymphoma
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Most primary brain lymphomas are what type?
Definition
B-cell
Term
Most common molecular alteration in meningiomas
Definition
Loss of Ch22
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Most common type of neurofibroma
Definition
Cutaneous
Term
Most common molecular alteration in tuberous sclerosis
Definition
Mutated TSC2, encoding tuberin
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The site of most active ceullular processes in bone
Definition
Metaphysis
Term
Most common disease of the growth plate
Definition
Achondroplasia
Term
Major cause of dwarfism
Definition
Achondroplasia
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Most common lethal form of dwarfism
Definition
Thanatophoric Dwarfism
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Most common type of osteopetrosis
Definition
Malignant infantile and adult autosomal
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Most common metabolic bone disease in US
Definition
Osteoporosis
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Most common forms of osteoporosis (2)
Definition
Senile and post menopausal
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Most common cause of osteonecrosis
Definition
Fracture, steroids, idiopathic
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Most common cause of pyogenic osteomyelitis
Definition
bacteremia from brushing teeth
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Where is Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis typically seen
Definition
Jaw
Term
Bone most commonly affected by tuberculous osteomyelitis
Definition
Spine (Patt Disease)
Term
Cancer notorious for single mets to bones
Definition
Kidney and thyroid
Term
Most common tumor arising in bone
Definition
multiple myeloma
Term
Most common primary malignancy of bone, excluding myeloma/lymphoma
Definition
Osteosarcoma
Term
Describe the "most common" characteristics of osteosarcoma
Definition
Most commonly arise in metaphysis of bone; solitary; intramedullary; poorly differentiated
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Most common benign bone tumor
Definition
Osteochondroma (exostosis)
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Most common location for osteochondroma
Definition
Knee, proximal humerus
Term
Most common intraosseous cartilaginous tumor
Definition
Chondroma
Term
2nd most common malignant tumor of bone
Definition
Chondrosarcoma
Term
4th most common malignancy in kids
Definition
Soft tissue tumor (sarcoma?)
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Most common soft tissue tumor of the adult
Definition
Lipoma
Term
Commonest reactive pseudosarcoma
Definition
Nodular fasciitis
Term
Most common soft tissue sarcoma of childhood/adolescence
Definition
rhabdomyosarcoma
Term
Most common type of rhabdomyosarcoma
Definition
Embryonal type
Term
Alveolar type of rhabdomyosarcoma most common when?
Definition
Early/mid adolescence
Term
4th commonest sarcoma
Definition
Synovial sarcoma
Term
What are the principal cells in repair and scar formation in the brain?
Definition
Astrocytes
Term
Most important histopathologic indicator of CNS injury
Definition
Gliosis
Term
What 2 things are Rosenthal fibers characteristic of?
Definition
Pilocytic astrocytomas and Alexander Disease
Term
What condition are Alzheimer type II astrocytes related to?
Definition
Hyperammonemia
Term
What is hydrocephalus usually due to?
Definition
Decreased CSF resorption
Term
Collectively, the most common CNS malformation
Definition
Neural Tube Defects
Term
Anencephaly more common in which sex
Definition
Female
Term
Encephalocele usually occurs where?
Definition
Occipital or posterior fossa
Term
Most common of the neural tube defects
Definition
Spina bifida
Term
Part of cord most often affected in syringomyelia
Definition
Cervical
Term
Part of brain most susceptible to direct parenchymal injury
Definition
Crests of gyri
Term
Most common location for brain contusion
Definition
Frontal lobe along orbital gyri and temporal lobes
Term
Subarachnoid hematomas are most common where?
Definition
Over lateral aspects of cerebral hemispheres
Term
Most injuries associated with spinal cord trauma occur because of?
Definition
Displacement of vertebral column
Term
3rd leading cause of death in the US
Definition
Cerebrovascular disease
Term
Most prevalent neurological disorder in terms of morbidity and mortality
Definition
Cerebrovascular disease
Term
Zone at greatest risk for watershed infarct
Definition
between ACA and MCA
Term
Most common cause of thrombotic occlusions
Definition
Atherosclerosis
Term
Most common cause of embolism
Definition
Cardiac mural thrombi
Term
Intracerebral hemorrhages are most common when?
Definition
Mid-late adulthood
Term
Most frequent cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage
Definition
Ruptured Berry Aneurysm
Term
Most common type of intracranial aneurysm
Definition
Berry aneurysm
Term
4th most common CV disorder
Definition
berry aneurysm
Term
Most important type of vascular malformation
Definition
AV malformation
Term
Most common location for AV malformations
Definition
MCA (posterior branches)
Term
Most common route of entry for infections
Definition
Hematogenous
Term
Most common cause of brain abscess
Definition
Staph and Strep
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Lobe most commonly affected by abscess
Definition
Frontal lobe
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Most common pattern of TB meningitis
Definition
Diffuse meningoencephalitis
Term
Most common demyelinating disorder
Definition
Multiple Sclerosis
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