SBCP Test with Questions and 100%
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Langhans giant cells - Answer Characteristic of granulomatous conditions, like TB. These
cells have multiple nuclei in the shape of a horseshoe. The macrophages that form
these giant cells are activated by Th1 cells.
Non-caseating granulomas - Answer Sarcoidosis
Masson bodies - Answer cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
Crocidolite - Answer Asbestos
Caplan lesions - Answer Coal worker's pneumoconiosis
Erythema nodusum, Granuloma, ACE, Hypercalcaemia - Answer Sarcoidosis
Kerley B lines - Answer Congestive heart failure/Pulmonary oedema
Heart failure cells - Answer Haemosiderin laden macrophages - pulmonary oedema
Nipple discharge, smoking, older - Answer Duct ectasia
,Blood-stained nipple discharge - Answer Intraductal papilloma
Triple assessment - Answer Clinical exam, Imaging (Mammo/US), FNA/Core biopsy
Fibroadenosis of breast - Answer Exaggeration of normal physiological changes
Breast mouse (solid, firm, well circumscribed, mobile) - Answer Fibroadenoma
Fibroadenoma can progress to what? - Answer Phyllodes tumour
Fibroblasts, histiocytes, adipocytes - Answer Fat necrosis
Breast Abscess - Answer Seen only in lactating women; otherwise cancer
unless disproven by biopsy -> I & D
Paget's disease of vulva - Answer Intraepithelial adenocarcinoma
Leiomyoma (fibroids) - Answer Benign neoplastic proliferation of smooth muscle
arising from myometrium; most common tumor in females
White, whorled cut surface
Spindle shaped cells
Lack of atypical features
Adenomyosis - Answer The presence of endometrial tissue growing through the
myometrium
Endometriosis - Answer Endometrial tissue located outside the uterus
,Endometrial hyperplasia - Answer Risk factor for adenocarcinoma
Endometrial cancer - Answer Malignant tumor of the endometrium
Type 1 endometrial carcinoma - Answer Perimenopausal, fat, HTN, Diabetes, unopposed
oestrogens, endometrioid-type adenocarcinoma
Type 2 endometrial carcinoma - Answer Older, without normal risk factors, atrophic
endometrium, serous carcinoma, advanced stage, poor prognosis, assoc. p53 mutations
leiomyosarcoma histology - Answer mitoses, atypia, necrosis, nuclear pleomorphism
Endometrioid stroma sarcoma - Answer Small blue cells invading myometrium,
very bland, few mitotic figures
PCOS - Answer polycystic ovarian syndrome, multiple follicular cysts form in
both ovaries, follicular derivation
Malignant Mixed Mullerian Tumor - Answer biphasic, high-grade tumor with malignant
epithelial and stromal components (*carcinosarcoma*); *highly aggressive*
Demographic: post menopausal women
Mucinous cystadenoma - Answer benign tumor of the ovary that contains thin-walled
multilocular cysts
Risk of malignancy index (Gynae) - Answer Menopausal status, CA125, USS
, Benign germ cell tumor - Answer Mature dermoid cyst/teratoma
Malignant germ cell tumors - Answer Younger patients. Dysgerminoma.
Endodermal sinus tumor. Immature teratoma.
Choriosarcoma - Answer Measure serum HCG
Benign sex cord stromal tumors - Answer Fibroma, ascites and pleural effusions
Meng's syndrome - Answer Fibroma, ascites, pleural effusion
Malignant sex-cord stromal tumour - Answer Granulosa cell tumour, nuclear grooves
Osteoclasts - Answer a large multinucleated bone cell that absorbs bone tissue
during growth and healing.
Osteoblasts - Answer Mononuclear cells on surface of bones
Osteocytes - Answer Osteoblasts surrounded by osteoid
Signs of fracture healing - Answer Haematoma, acute inflammation, granulation
tissue (haematoma organisation), primary callous response, external bridging callous
and remodelling
Osteomyelitis - Answer Staphylococcus aureus, E.coli, pneumococcus, group A
strep, mycobacterium tuberculosis