Team Sep & Oct................Sep 16th - genius123

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mohd
r u revising with FA?
or kaplan lect notes?
i am confused bcos i never read FA even once.
got exactly a month to go!!!!!
any suggestion?

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hi mohamad,pin ,okt3,senility,smydam
how is everybody?
GL mohamad ,u working hard and exam is near!

i already started with patho:

Thyroid Cancers=

1.Papillary Ca=most common excellent prognosis,ground glass nuclei,psommoma bodies.
2.Follicular Ca=good prognosis,uniform follicles.
3.Medullary Ca=from parafollicular C cells,produce calcitonin,(MEN II and III)
4.Anaplastic Ca=older pts,very poor prognosis
5.Lymphoma=associated with Hashimoto thyroiditis

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hi!
burkitts t8,14 (c myc)
CML t9 22 (bcr abl)
foll lym t 14 18
APL t 15-17
how to remember these?
so i am trying by typing!

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lol good try i think u mean AML =t 15-17

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wel u can just write them on piece of paper
and put it on ur table,but u r rt so many things to remember
thats why i laughed that so much memorization has to be done

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when is ur exam senility?

Woman of short stature presents with shortened 4th and 5th metacarpal?

ANS=Albright hereditary Dystrophy:

The disorder is characterized by a lack of renal responsiveness to parathyroid hormone, resulting in low serum calcium, high serum phosphate, and appropriately high serum parathyroid hormone. Patients with Albright hereditary osteodystrophy have short stature, characteristically shortened fourth and fifth metacarpals, and rounded faces.

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APL acute promyelocytic leukemia
DIC common
retinoids useful intreatment
(ATRA most useful drug)

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oh ok thnx .
GL

Pitutary adenoma=
most commonly prolactinoma=amennorhea,galactorrhea,dec libido,infertility
Bromocriptine cause shrinkage.

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i am taking exam on october 19. u?
keloids-excessive collagen formation
desmoids-excessive fibroblast formation
metalloproteinases(Zn dependent}help in degradation of grannulation tissue and replacement by scar.
i hope i am not disturbing ur flow.

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not at all senility!

havnt taken date yet might b first week of nov or last week of oct!
thnx for asking,
excess collagen is mainly type III in keloid.

Osteopetrosis=
Failure of normal bone resorption
thickened dense bone