Hematology
Term for the stacking of red blood cells on a peripheral blood smear
Rouleaux (accept rouleaux formation)
Elevation of this metabolic intermediate is associated with folate deficiency
Homocysteine
Predominant histologic type of bladder cancer in the United States
Urothelial (accept transitional cell)
Most common malignancy associated with neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes
Small cell lung cancer
Female cancer survivors are most likely to have had this type of cancer
Breast
The two hallmark findings of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia
Eponym for calculation using CBC parameters useful in differentiating iron deficiency anemia from thalassemia
Mentzer index (accept erythrocyte count divided by the mean corpuscular volume)
Skin cancer type most prevalent following solid organ transplantation
Squamous cell carcinoma
Eponymous syndrome for development of aggressive large-cell lymphoma in chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma
Richter syndrome (accept Richter transformation)
Factor most predictive of survival in patients with early stage ovarian cancer
Completeness of surgical debulking
Meaning of 'wet purpura'
Hemorrhagic blisters in mucous membranes, such as the oral mucosa
Coagulation study prolonged in hemophilia A and B
Activated partial thromboplastin time (accept aPTT or PTT)
Hereditary hemochromatosis is most commonly associated with a mutation in this gene
HFE (accept C282Y)
Immunotherapy that uses T-cells manipulated to target specific tumor antigens
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (accept CAR-T cell therapy or adoptive T-cell therapy)
Malignancy for which the Revised International Prognostic Index score is useful
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (accept aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
Most common drug associated with hemolytic anemia
Piperacillin
Clinical condition most commonly associated with 'bite cells' on a peripheral blood smear
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (accept G6PD deficiency)
Lung cancer that is immunoreactive for keratin and epithelial membrane antigen
Small cell lung cancer
Acute leukemia displaying an ambiguous pattern of antigen expression making it unable to be assigned to one hematopoietic lineage
Mixed phenotype leukemia (accept hybrid leukemia; bilineage leukemia; biphenotypic acute leukemia)
Name of chemotherapy side-effect characterized by soreness, redness, and peeling of the skin of the palms and soles of the feet
Hand-foot syndrome (also accept acral erythema, palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia, hand-foot skin reaction, toxic erythema of the palms and soles, and Bergdorf's reaction)
Autoantibodies directed toward complexes of herparin and this protein result in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
Platelet factor 4 (do not accept only platelet factor)
Scoring system to predict severity of ADAMTS deficiency in suspected thrombotic thrombcytopenic purpura
PLASMIC Score
Acronym for the most common adjunctive therapy for stage III-IV colon cancer
CAPOX (capecitabine and oxaliplatin) or FOLFOX (leucovorin, 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin
Medication with indications for treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia and acne
Tretinoin (accept all-trans retinoic acid, ATRA)
Optimal duration of trastuzumab therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer
1 year