All About Nodules
Skin Stuff
Eye Heart Kidneys
Spreading Rheum-ers
The Theme is Heme
100

Initial tests in the workup of a newly detected thyroid nodule  

Thyroid Ultrasound and TSH

100

Name for this skin condition, often seen on a patient in the supine position for several days whilst on a lovely plastic lined hospital mattress:

Miliaria (accept heat rash)

100

A pulmonary renal syndrome characterized by pulmonary hemorrhage and glomerulonephritis with positive anti-basement membrane antibodies  

Goodpasture Syndrome

100

Condition that causes urogenital lesions, uveitis, recurrent oral ulcers and pathergy (cutanous lesion resulting from minimal skin trauma)  

Behcet's Syndrome

100

Treatment for essential thrombocytosis in patients at high risk of thrombosis  

Hydroxyurea 

**20% of ET patients develop acquired von willebrand disease which limits the usefulness of aspirin in high risk patients 

200

Follow up test on a thyroid nodule without suspicious US findings but a low TSH

Iodine 123 scintigraphy (accept radioactive uptake scan or thyroid uptake scan)

200

Suspect this viral illness in a patient with an acute, first time onset of the rash seen here:  

HIV

200

Autosomal dominant disorder due to a sodium channel gene mutation that causes syncope and sudden cardiac death without structural heart disease. EKG typically shows a coved ST elevation in precordial leads with associated T wave inversion and right bundle branch block appearance  


Brugada Syndrome 

200

A cause of secondary osteoarthritis in a middle-aged male with diabetes and liver disease  

Hemochromatosis 

200

Treatment for acute ischemic stroke secondary to sickle cell crisis  

Exchange Transfusion 

300

Initial follow up tests after discovery of an adrenal nodule >1 cm (need 2/3)

Overnight dexamethasone suppression test 

Urine and plasma metanephrines 

Aldosterone and renin ratio (if hypertensive)

**Need 2/3


300

A patient with profound neutrophilia and the following skin lesions most likely has this syndrome:  

Sweet Syndrome (accept Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatoses)

300

Additional therapy for a patient with poorly controlled symptomatic heart failure despite optimal medical therapy, a prolonged QRS >150 ms and a left bundle branch block  

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy 

300

Oronasal inflammation, urinary abnormalities, abnormal chest radiograph with + C-ANCA antibodies

Granulomatosis with polyangiits (Accept Wegeners)

300

Name one diagnosis with the following peripheral blood smear:  

Accept G6PD deficiency, alpha thalassemia, NADPH deficiency, glutathione synthase deficiency. These are bite cells (degmacytes) caused by phagocyte extraction of denatured hemoglobin (heinz bodies)  

400

If patient is over the age of 35, perform _____ to assess laterality and determine indication for surgery in patients with primary hyperaldosteronism  

Adrenal Vein Sampling

400

Oral lesion commonly seen in alcoholics and tobacco users which carries an increased risk of malignant transformation:  

Leukoplakia

400

Edema, nephrotic range proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia and significantly elevated cholesterol seen in a 50 year old after an upper respiratory tract infection  

Adult minimal change disease  

400

Suspect this diagnosis in a patient with swollen hands, myositis, raynauds and +AntiURNP antibodies  

Mixed Connective Tissue Disease 

400

Prevention of Tumor Lysis Syndrome in high risk patients (>5%) with ALL/AML or high grade lymphomas  

IV Fluids and Rasburicase 

500

Maximum size cutoff to be considered a pulmonary nodule (not yet considered a mass)

3 cm

500

Primary cutanous T cell lymphoma seen here:  

Mycoses Fungoides (accept Sezary Syndrome)

500

Ocular finding seen here, caused by blood accumulation in the anterior chamber of the eye  

Hyphema 

500

Long term complication seen in a patient with dry eyes and mouth and positive Anti-Ro/SSA and Anti-La/SSB antibodies, which is due to malignant transformation of glandular tissue

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

500

First line treatment of bleeding associated with uremia in advanced chronic kidney disease  

Desmopressin (accept DDAVP)