USMLE Pathognomonics
Aschoff Bodies
Rheumatic Fever
# Baker's cyst in popliteal fossa # Butonnier's Deformity # Swan neck Deformity
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Strawberry Tongue
Scarlet Fever
Howell-Jolly bodies
Splenectomy
Boot Shaped Heart in X-ray
Tetralogy of fallot
Councilman Bodies
Viral Hepatitis Toxic Hepatitis
Schiller-Duval bodies
Yolk Sac Tumour
Starry Sky appearance
burkitt's lymphoma
Strings of beads appearance of Renal Artery
fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD)
Call-Exner bodies
granulosa cell tumors (theca cell tumour of ovary)
Birbeck Granules /Birbeck Bodies
histiocytosis
Water Bottle Appearance on CXR
pericaradial effusion
New heart murmur
suggested infective endocarditis
Hair-on-End sign/appearance
# Beta-thalassemia # Sickle Cell anemia (extramedullary hematopoiesis)
Psammoma Bodies
# Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma # Serous Papillary Carcinoma of uterus # Cystadenocarcinoma of ovary # Meningioma # Malignant Mesothelioma # Papillary renal cell carcinoma psammoma body is a round collection of calcium
Cherry Red spots on Macula
1) Tay-sachs 2) Neimen Pick 3) Central Retinal Artery Occlusion
Auer Rods
AML
Hobnail Liver
Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Mallory Bodies
Alcoholic Hepatitis
Bamboo Spine in X-ray
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Ferruginous Bodies
Asbestosis
Clue Cells
Bacterial Vaginosis
Charcot-Layden Crystals
Bronchial Asthma (eosinophils membrane)
Curschmann's spirals
Bronchial Asthma (muscous plugs)
Smudge Cells
CLL
Philadelphia Chromosomes
CML
Owl's Eye Appearance of inclusion bodies
CMV
Cherry Red skin
CO poisoning
Stellate Shaped Cells
Cardiac Myxoma
Blue Bloater Patient
Chronic Bronchitis
Ground Glass Hepatocytes (GGH)
Chronic Hepatitis B infection
Cotton Wool Spots on Retina
Chronic Hypertension
Cobblestone appearance
Crohn's Disease
String sign on abdominal X-ray
Crohn's Disease
'Glue Sniffer's' Heart
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Brushfield spots in Iris
Down's Syndrome
Grape-like lesion
Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma
Pink Puffer Patient
Emphysema
Janeway Lesions
Endocarditis
Chocolate Cyst
Endometriosis - specific term for endometriosis projected to the ovary
Blue-Domed cyst
Fibrocystic change of Breast
Violin Strings Appearance in Laparoscopy
Fitz-Hugh Curtis Syndrome (adhesions as PID complications)
Heinz Bodies
G6PD Deficiency
Signet-Ring Cells
Gastric Adenocarcinoma
Cigarette paper like cytoplasmic appearance
Gaucher's Disease
Donovan Bodies
Granuloma inguinale (donovanosis)
Hurthle Cells
Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Cowdry Type A Bodies
Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
Lewy Bodies
Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease
Atypical Lymphocytes
Infectious Mononucleosis
Osler Nodes
Infective Endocarditis
Splinter Haemorrhages
Infective Endocarditis
Peau d'Orange
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Honeycomb Lung on X-ray
Interstitial Fibrosis
Salt & Pepper Appearance of Retina
Kearns-Sayre syndrome (mitochondrial disorder)
Basophilic Stippling of RBC's
Lead Poisoning
Burton Line
Lead Poisoning ("lead line on gums")
Wire-loop appearance of Glumeruli (light microscopy)
Lupus Nephropathy
Onion Skin appearance
Malignant Hypertension (hyperplastic type)
Swiss cheese appearence
Medullary Sponge Kidney Disease
Ragged Red Fibres
Melas Syndrome
Tram-Track appearance of Glumeruli (light microscopy)
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN)
Chocolate Colored Blood
Methemoglobinemia (blood disorder in which an abnormal amount of methemoglobin is produced)
Fish Mouth Buttonhole Deformity
Mitral valve stenosis, in Rheumatic heart Disease
Pipestem Arteries on X-ray
Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis (calcification in Media of arteries)
"Punched-out" Bone lesions
Multiple Myeloma
Bence-Jones Proteins
Multiple Myeloma
Homer Wright Rosette
Neuroblastoma
Cafe-au-lait spots on skin
Neurofibromatosis
Argyl-Robertson Pupil
Neurosyphilis
Foamy Histiocytes
Niemann-Pick disease
Brown tumour of Bone
Osteitis Fibrosa Cystica (OFC) [von recklinghausen disease]
Soap Bubble Appearence
Osteoclastoma - giant cell tumor of the bone
Blue Sclera
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Codman's triangle on X-ray
Osteosarcoma
# Eburnation # Heberdens Nodes # Bouchard Nodes
Osteroarthritis
Clear Halo/Cytoplasm around nucleus
Paget's Disease of Breast
Orphan Annie eye nuclear inclusions
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Lumpy-Bumpy appearance of Glumeruli (immunofluorescence)
Post-infectious glomerulonephritis / Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis
Beaded Appearance of Bile Ducts
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Ghon Focus
Primary TB
Owl's Eye Appearance of entire nucleus
Reed-Sternberg's Cells - Hodjkin's Lymphoma
MacCallum Plaques
Rheumatic Endocarditis (complication of chronic rheumatic heart disease)
