Rearrangements
Ground Glass
Field & Stream
Heartbreak
Fictional MEs
200
Testing for amplification of this gene may be helpful in the assessment of lipomatous tumors.
What is MDM2?
200
What is lymphangitic carcinomatosis?
200
Differential diagnosis for the urine finding shown here.
What is: glomerulonephritis vs. vascultiis (less commonly diabetic glomerulopathy or renal infarction)? [Red cell casts]
200
The histologic finding shown here has been associated with reperfusion and cocaine use.
What are contraction bands?
200
Dana Delany plays former neurosurgeon turned Philadelphia medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt in this TV drama.
What is Body of Proof?
400
Expression of this gene is lost in the ovarian tumor shown below.
What is SMARCA4? (small cell ovarian cancer, hypercalcemic type)
400
The additional history these findings should prompt.
What is occupational history (silicosis)?
400
The anatomic correlate of a dramatically elevated 24 hour urine vanillylmandelic acid.
What is an adrenal pheochromocytoma?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This inherited cause of lethal arrhythmias is the result of mutations in desmosomal proteins in the intercalated disk.
What is arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy?
400
This television medical examiner's name is also a city in Massachusetts and a term for a peritonsillar abscess.
Who is Quincy?
600
EWSR-ATF1 fusion is typically found in this rare salivary gland tumor.
What is hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma?
600
The term "miliary tuberculosis" comes from this grain.
What is the millet seed?
600
Diagnosis for the urine sample collected from an obtunded 48-year-old man with acute kidney injury found on the floor of his garage on a Monday morning.
What is rhabdomyolysis?
600
The classic etiologic agent that causes ascending aortic aneurysm, "tree barking", and adventitial plasmacytosis.
What is Treponema pallidum?
600
This incredibly misanthropic quote came from New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurel Weaver played by Linda Fiorentino in Men in Black.
What is, "I hate the living"?
800
Mutations in this Krebs cycle gene are present in many cartilaginous and glial tumors.
What is IDH?
800
The likely diagnosis for diffuse small epithelioid granulomas that are negative for acid fast stains and fungal stains.
What is pulmonary sarcoidosis?
800
The finding in this urine
What are oxalate crystals?
800
Fatal myocarditis is a rare complication of this class of targeted chemotherapeutic agents.
What are immune checkpoint inhibitors?
800
Jill Hennessy plays Boston medical examiner Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh driven by the memory of her mother's murder in this TV drama.
What is Crossing Jordan?
1000
PML-RARA
What is promyelocytic leukemia?
1000
The route by which these nodules reached the lungs.
What is intravenous injection (injection granulomas)?
1000
Diagnosis for this urine sample from an 8-year-old boy with fever and hematuria.
What is Schistosoma haematobium?
1000
The most common cause of acute coronary syndrome in young women without traditional risk factors.
What is coronary artery dissection?
1000
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This cinematic death investigator memorably declared one victim not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead.
Who is the Coroner Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz?
