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FA Rapid Review 8
Lab/diagnostic findings and diagnosis/disease
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05/20/2013

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Rectangular, crystal-like cytoplasmic inclusions in Leydig cells
Definition
Reinke crystals (Leydig cell tumor)
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Renal epithelial casts in urine
Definition
Acute toxic/viral nephrosis
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Rhomboid crystals, positively birefringent
Definition
Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate)
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Rib notching
Definition
Coarctation of the aorta
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Ring-enhancing brain lesions in AIDS
Definition
Toxoplasma gondii
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Sheets of medium-sized lymphoid cells ("starry sky" appearance on histology)
Definition
Burkitt's lymphoma (t[8:14] c-myc activation, associated with EBV; "black sky" made up of malignant cells)
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Silver-staining spherical aggregations of tau protein in neurons
Definition
Pick bodies (Pick's disease: progressive dementia, changes in personality)
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"Soap bubble" in femur or tibia on Xray
Definition
Giant cell tumor of the bone
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"Spikes" on basement membrane, "dome-like" subepithelial deposits
Definition
Membranous glomerulonephritis
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Stacks of RBCs
Definition
Rouleaux formation (high ESR, Multiple myeloma)
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Stippled vaginal epithelial cells
Definition
"Clue cells" Gardnerella vaginalis
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"Tennis racket" shaped cytoplasmic organelles (EM) in Langerhans cells
Definition
Birbeck granules (histiocytosis X: eosinophilic granuloma)
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Thrombi made of white and red layers
Definition
Lines of Zahn (arterial thrombus, layers of platelets/RBCs)
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"Thumb sign" on lateral Xray
Definition
Epiglottitis (HiB)
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Thyroid like appearance of kidney
Definition
Chronic bacterial pyelonephritis
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"Tram-track" appearance on LM
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
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Triglyceride accumulation in liver cell vacuoles
Definition
Fatty liver disease (alcoholic or metabolic syndrome)
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WBCs that look "smudged"
Definition
CLL (almost always B cell; affects the elderly)
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"Wire loop" glomerular appearance on LM
Definition
Lupus nephropathy
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Yellow CSF
Definition
Xanthochromia (previous subarachnoid hemorrhage)
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