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What artery can cause a fatal bleed from trauma to the nose?

What is it a branch of?

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Sphenopalatine artery (branch of maxillary)
- Posterior segment of nostril
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What type of cancers are head and neck cancer usually?

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Squamous cell carcinoma

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What are risk factors for Head and neck cancers?

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  • Tobacco
  • Alcohol
  • HPV-16 (oropharyngeal)
  • EBV (nasopharyngeal)
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What may nasopharyngeal carcinomas present with?

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  • Unilateral nasal obstruction
  • Discharge
  • Epistaxis
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What arteries are in the Kiesselbach plexus?

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Kiesselbach’s LEGS

  • Labial artery
  • anterior and posterior Ethmoidal arteries
  • Greater palatine artery
  • Sphenopalatine artery
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What does the superior meatus drain?

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Sphenoid and posterior ethmoid sinuses

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What does the middle meatus drain?

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  • Frontal
  • Maxillary
  • Anterior ethmoid
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What does the inferior meatus drain?

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Nasolacrimal duct

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What may paranasal sinus infections extend to?

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  • Orbits - orbital cellulitis
  • Cavernous sinus - Cav sinus syndrome
  • Brain - meningitis
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What are causes of epistaxis?

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  • Foreign body
  • Trauma
  • Allergic rhinits
  • Nasal angiofibromas
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What sinuses are most commonly affected by rhinosinusitis?

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Maxillary sinuses

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What are the causes of an anterior mediastinal mass?

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  • Thyroid (substernal goiter)
  • Thymic neoplasm
  • Teratoma
  • Terrible Lymphoma
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What are the causes of a middle mediastinal mass?

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  • Esophageal carcinoma
  • Metastases
  • Hiatal hernia
  • Bronchiogenic cysts
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What are causes of a posterior mediastinal mass?

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  • Neurogenic tumour (neurofibroma)

- Multiple myeloma

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What are causes of mediastinitis?

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  • Post-op complications of cardio-thoracic procedures (< 14 days)
  • Esophageal perforation
  • Contigous spread of odontogenic/retropharyngeal infection
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What organism may cause mediastinitis?

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Histoplasma capsulatum

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How does mediastinitis occur?

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Increased proliferation of connective tissue in mediastinum (aka Fibrosing mediastinitis)

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What are the clinical features of mediastinitis?

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  • Fever
  • Tachycardia
  • Leukocytosis
  • Chest pain
  • Sternal wound drainage
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What are the causes of pneumomediastinum?

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  • Spontaneous rupture of pulmonary bleb

Secondary causes

  • Trauma
  • Iatrogenic
  • Boerhaave syndrome
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What are complications of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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  • PAH
  • Resp failure
  • Lung cancer
  • Arrhythmias
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What are potential causes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

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  • Smoking
  • Environmental pollutants
  • Genetic defects
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What type of hypersensitivity reaction is hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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What are the acute symptoms of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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  • Dyspnea
  • Cough
  • Chest tightness
  • Fever
  • Headache
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What does chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis lead to (what are its features)?

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  • Irreversible fibrosis
  • Noncaseating granuloma
  • Alveolar septal thickening
  • Traction bronchiectasis
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What will serum and bronchioalveolar lavage fluid show specifically in Sarcoidosis, what will be elevated?
- Serum - Elevated ACE levels | - Bronchioalveolar fluid - Elevated CD4/CD8 ratio
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What will CXR show in sarcoidosis?
- Bilateral adenopathy | - Coarse reticular opacities
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What are possible signs / symptoms associated with sarcoidosis outside of the lungs?
- Bell palsy - Uveitis - Lupus pernio - Erythema nodosum - Rheumatoid arthritis-like arthropathy - Hypercalcemia
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What are the features of the granulomas in sarcoidosis?
- Noncaseating epitheloid | - Containing microscopic Schaumann and asteroid bodies
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How does sarcoidosis cause hypercalcemia?
Increased 1alpha-hydroxylasee-mediated vit D activation in macrophages
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What will bronchoscopy show in inhalation injury?
Edema, congestion of bronchus and possibly soot deposition
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What is pneumoconiosis?
Interstitial lung diseases where inhalation of dust has caused interstitial fibrosis
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Name 4 pneumoconioses
- Asbestos-related disease - Berylliosis - Coal workers' pneumoconiosis - Silicosis
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What types of pneumoconioses affect the upper lobes and what types affect the lower?
Asbestos-related disease - lower Upper lobes - Berylliosis - Coal workers' pneumoconiosis - Silicosis
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What are 3 main asbestos-related diseases?
- Asbestosis - pulmonary fibrosis - Pleural disease - Malignancies - mesothelioma
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What cancers can be due to absestos exposure?
- Bronchiogenic carcinoma | - Mesothelioma
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What is Caplan syndrome?
- Rheumatoid arthritis - + Pneumoconiosis - W. Intrapulmonary nodules
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What do asbestos bodies look like on histology from alveolar sputum sample (often obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage)? What stain is used?
- Golden-brown fusiform rods resembling dumbbells | - Visualized from Prussian-blue stain
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What is berylliosis?
Beryllium exposure in aerospace and manufacturing industries
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What will be seen on histology in berrylliosis?
Noncaseating granulomas
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What are those with berylliosis at increased risk of?
- Cor pulmonare | - Cancer
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What diseases may increase the risk of Caplan syndrome?
- Absestosis - Coal-workers pneumoconiosis - Silicosis
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What will be seen on histology in Coal-workers pneumoconiosis?
Macrophages laden with carbon | -> Inflammation and fibrosis
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What will be seen on imaging in Coal-workers pneumoconiosis?
Small, rounded nodular opacities seen
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What is anthracosis?
Basically asymptomatic coal-workers pneumoconiosis | - Many urban dwellers exposed to sooty air
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What is Silicosis associated with (what workers)/
- Sandblasting - Foundries - Mines
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Describe the pathology of Silicosis?
Macrophages respond to silica and release fibrogenic factors, leading to fibrosis - Silica may disrupt phagolysosomes and impair macrophages -> incr susceptibility to TB
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What are those with Silicosis at increased risk of?
- Cancer - Cor pulmonale - Caplan syndrome
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What will ne seen on CXR in Silicosis?
- Upper lobes affected | - Eggshell calcification of hilar lymph nodes
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What will histology show with mesothelioma?
Psammoma bodies
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What will EM show in mesothelioma?
Polygonal tumor cells with microvilli, desmosomes, tonofilaments - Calretinin and cytokeratin 5/6 +ve in almost all and not in normal lung cancer
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What is the pneumonic to remeber silicosis?
The silly egg sandwich is mine
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