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| ICIARC (from that really long corny video you saw)--what is it?? |
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Definition
1) identify the organ
2) classify the lesion
3) identify the key features (focal? diffuse?
4) apply dianostic criteria
5) confirm with microscope |
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Term
| congested liver, hepatomegaly, pulmonary congestion, subacute glomerulonephritis, fat necrosis of pancreas, lung lobar pneumonia, sezari's syndrome are all what kinds of lesions? |
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Definition
| DIFFUSE. not unifocal or multifocal, but rather the entire organ is diseased. |
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Term
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Definition
| benign tumor of ENDOTHELIAL cells (of a vessel). |
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Term
| name the characteristics of an abscess |
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Definition
| purulent, localized, centrally has mass of necrotic leukoctyes, can be walled off and replaced by CT, thin capsules, unifocal. |
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Term
| expansile growth describes growth towards or away from what? |
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Definition
| describes growth of a benign neoplasms. grows OUTWARD in an encapsulated, well-differentiated form; does not invade tissues. |
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Term
| How are infarcts classified and what are examples/characteristics of each of the classifications? |
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Definition
1) red (hemorrhagic)infarct: in tissues with dual blood supply, such as lung, small intestine, liver, etc. Also occur when VENOUS occlusion occurs, or in areas of prevoius congestion.
2) WHITE (or anemic) INFARCTS: ARTERIAL occlusions in SOLID organs with only ONE blood supply (heart, spleen, kidney). septic or bland. wedge shaped. |
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Term
Sezari's syndrome is (pick one)
-atrophic liver with leukemic infiltrates
-atrophic liver with PMNs
-normal sized liver with leukemic infiltrates
-enlarged liver with leukemia infiltrates |
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Definition
| sezari's syndrome: enlarged liver with leukemia infiltrates. |
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Term
| what is it called when there is central necrosis in a malignant neoplasms because it has outgrown its blood supply? |
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Definition
| umbilication (causes a little divot in the center on the surface where necrosis is; looks like a bellybutton). |
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