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Diagnostic radiology

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Chest

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Views

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See: Chest radiograph#Views

  • PA (posterior => anterior): typically performed on ambulatory adults
  • Least amount of magnification (and scattering) for the heart
  • AP (anterior => posterior) typically performed on pediatric patients OR patients who are weak, unresponsive, very sick, bed-confined, etc.
  • X-ray beam is scattered by the heart closer to the source and further away from the detector (enlarged cardiac silhouette)

Systematic approach: ABCDs

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  • Airway: Trachea, mediastinal width, aortic knob (do not miss: tracheal deviation)
  • Breathing: Lung field outlines, (a)symmetry, pleural space (do not miss: pneumothorax)
  • Circulation: Heart size on PA film, heart borders, heart shape
  • Diaphragm: Hemidiaphragm levels, costophrenic angles, diaphragm contour lines (do not miss pneumoperitoneum)
  • RIPE: Rotation, Inspiration, Picture, Exposure
  • Soft tissues / skeleton: Breast tissue, calcification, bones

Birth defects

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Radiation dosing

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Abdomen

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  • Pt is often asymptomatic. Signs and symptoms show up late in the disease process:
  • Courvoisier's law (" a painless palpably enlarged gallbladder accompanied with mild jaundice is unlikely to be caused by gallstones")
  • Epigastric pain radiating to the back
  • Painless obstructive jaundice
  • recent onset of type 2 diabetes
  • Dilatation of pancreatic duct and intrahepatic biliary ducts (due to compressive obstruction / mass effect)
  • Pruritus (from bile salts entering the bloodstream causing elevated serum bilirubin)

Pathology and histology

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Cellular pathophysiology

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Cell death type (high yield)

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Systems and syndromes

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Widespread necrosis in the central venule regions of the liver acinus
Mostly viable hepatocytes in the portal area (zone 1) of the liver acinus, with arrows pointing to a necrotic zone on the edge
These H&E pathology slides were taken from an acetaminophen poisoning case involving an adult with a history of alcohol abuse. Case contributed by Dr. Linda Ferrell, UCSF, Department of Pathology.


Endocrine

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  • Adrenal crisis and adrenal cortical atrophy due to withdrawal from exogenous glucocorticoids (e.g. lecture case due to stomach virus / vomiting causing unintentional drug withdrawal)
  • Gross pathology: Cortex in case is much thinner than medulla cf. normal/healthy adrenal gland
  • Histology: Cells in the zona fasciculata lack lipid droplets, empty voids due to shrinking of cell volumes

Liver

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  • Remember to review and add Case 3, Slide 35 (Introduction to Pathology - Part 2 (Interactive Workshop) / Cellular Alterations and Circulation - Clinico-Pathological Correlation, Dr. Lto, Friday Nov 17), to class Anki deck for this lecture ; H&E slide taken from Robbins Pathology of Disease
  • Features of well-developed coagulative necrosis visible on pathologic specimens around 24 hour hours of death of cells
  • Architecture of tissue is retained (initially), cytoplasm is hypereosinophilic, cells are anucleate
  • Biochemistry: CYP3A4 and CYP2E1 metabolism of paracetamol to NAPQI (oxidant), antidote is N-acetylcysteine

Biochemistry

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Lipid transport

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  • PCSK9 - LDL transporter recycling

Vitamins and cofactors

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  • Post-translational modification of specific peptide hormones (hydroxylation of C-terminal glycine to amide terminus)
  • Iron absorption (reduction of poorly-soluble ferric ion to better-soluble ferrous ion)
  • Impaired biosynthesis of acetylcholine (from choline and acetyl-CoA)
  • "What metabolites in serum and urine can be used to differentiate between a folate deficiency and a vitamin B12 deficiency? What information is revealed by the Schilling test and modified Schilling test?"

Immune markers and cytokines to memorize (please finish/organize by Dec 10)

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Clusters of differentiation (diagnostic / immunohistological)

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  • Section CD3 (immunology)#immunohistochemistry: "The pro-thymocytes differentiate into common thymocytes, and then into medullary thymocytes, and it is at this latter stage that CD3 antigen begins to migrate to the cell membrane. The antigen is found bound to the membranes of all mature T-cells, and in virtually no other cell type... The antigen remains present in almost all T-cell lymphomas and leukaemias, and can therefore be used to distinguish them from superficially similar B-cell and myeloid neoplasms." [1]

Stimulatory

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Regulatory / inhibitory

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Cytokine overview

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Cancer markers

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  • Mismatch repair endonuclease PMS2

Pharmacology

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Membrane transporters and intracellular transport pathways

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Plasma membrane transporters

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Mitochrondrial membrane transporters

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Nuclear membrane transporters

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Infectious disease and epidemiology / clinical microbiology

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Epidemiology

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Microbial causes of disease

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Virulence factors

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Fungal

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Viral

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To be organized

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Inline citations

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  1. ^ Leong AS, Cooper K, Leong FJ (2003). Manual of Diagnostic Cytology (2nd ed.). Greenwich Medical Media, Ltd. pp. 63–64. ISBN 1-84110-100-1.