Pathology Mnemonics

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Thyroid carcinoma: frequency

"Please Feel My butt":
In order of most frequent to least frequent, and in order from least aggressive to most aggressive:
Papillary carcinoma
Follicular carcinoma
Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Anaplastic carcinoma

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Parkinson's symptoms

RATS

Rigitidy (cogwheel)
Akinesia
Tremor (resting)
Shuffling gate

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Thrombus: possible fates
DOPE:
Dissolution
Organization & repair
Propagation
Embolization

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Gout: factors that can precipitate an attack of acute gouty arthritis
DARK:
Diuretics
Alcohol
Renal disease
Kicked (trauma)
· And, the attack occurs most often at night [thus "dark"].

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Pick's disease: features
PICK:
Progressive degeneration of neurons
Intracytoplasmic Pick bodies
Cortical atrophy
Knife edge gyri

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Alzheimer's disease: features
RONALD (Ronald Reagan, a famous victim):
Reduction of Ach
Old age
Neurofibrillary tangles
Atrophy of cerebral cortex (diffuse)
Language impairment
Dementia (MC in elderly)/ Down’s syndrome

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Wernicke-Korsakoff's psychosis: findings
COAT RACK:
· Wernicke's encephalopathy (acute phase):
Confusion
Ophthalmoplegia
Ataxia
Thiamine tx.
· Korsakoff's psychosis (chronic phase):
Retrograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Confabulation
Korsakoff's psychosis

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Pneumothorax: presentation
P-THORAX:
Pleuretic pain
Trachea deviation
Hyperresonance
Onset sudden
Reduced breath sounds (& dypsnea)
Absent fremitus
X-*** shows collapse

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Multiple endocrine neoplasia III: components
MEN III is a disease of 3 M's:
Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Medulla of adrenal (pheochromocytoma)
Mucosal neuroma

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Virchow's triad (venous thrombosis)
"VIRchow":
Vascular trauma
Increased coagulability
Reduced blood flow (stasis)