0 Medical One Liners 351 - 360



351. Causes of Apple core sign femur
  • synovial chondromatosis (Most common)
  • pigmented villonodular synovitis
  • amyloidosis
  • rheumatoid arthritis
352. Anterior tibial translation/translocation > 7mm is highly suggestive of Anterior cruciate ligament tear.

353. Laryngo-tracheo bronchitis or croup is the commonest cause of tracheal narrowing.

354. Most common primary malignant tumor of parotid gland - Mucoepidermoid carcinoma.

355. Type 3 accessory navicular bone - is called a cornuate navicular.

356. Myoinositol concentrations in brain are abnormally increased in patients with demyelinating disease and alzheimer's. Detected by MR spectriscopy.

357. Morel Lavalle lesion - degloving injury in severe trauma resulting in abrupt separation of the skin and subcutaneous fatty tissue from the underlying fascia.

358. Overproduction of protein and lipid rich material from Type II pneumocytes which is not cleared by lungs - leads to Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

359. Subpleural lucent line - seen in Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis
Subpleural linear opacities - seen in Asbestosis.

360. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is indistinguishable to lung involvement in tuberous sclerosis but Chylothorax and chyloperitoneum are common in LAM.



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0 Medical One Liners 341 - 350




341. Primary amyloid can cause an inflammatory response in lungs. This does not happen in case of secondary amyloid.

342. Drugs which can cause eosinophilia and pulmonary infiltrates- Penicillin, sulfonamides, methotrexate, asprin, nitrofurantoin, PAS.

343. The cytotoxic drugs have fibrogenic effect. This is enhanced by radiotherapy and high levels of inspired oxygen.

344. Intra renal calculi are usually asymptomatic. But an intra renal calculus can obstruct at the level of infundibulum and present with pain.

345. Shiny corner sign is seen in Ankylosing spondylitis.

346. MRI is the modality of choice in the assessment of glutaric aciduria type 1

347. Most common offending vessel in vascular loop compression -
  • Causing trigeminal neuralgia - superior cerebellar artery
  • Hemifacial spasm - Anterior inferior cerebellar artery.

348. Porencephalic cyst is lined by white matter whereas arachnoid cyst is lined by grey matter.

349. Dandy-Walker variant can not be diagnosed before the 18th week of gestation because the inferior vermis is not formed at this time.

350. Most consistent pathological finding in chronic bronchitis - hypertrophy of mucous secreting glands of bronchi.



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0 World health day 2014



7th April 2014 - World health day



Theme - Vector-borne diseases: small bite, big threat




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