What type of necrosis is indicative of TB associated infection?

What is considered one of the leading health behavior risk factors in the United States reported by the CDC?

What is the most common site of cancer for females in the United States?

What two cell types produce prostaglandins?

What is the number one pathologic concern for uncontrolled hyperplasia?

What are the two current leading causes of death in the United States?

What is a common factor associated with aging cells?

What term best describes a transformation of one differentiated cell type to another differentiated cell type?

What disease can be best described as a failure of the body’s immune system to recognize its own cells, forming a cellular attack?

What type of cellular impairment is most associated with hypoxia and ischemia?

What are considered common intracellular changes seen in cellular injury?

The complete failure of an organ to develop during embryonic growth and development due to the absence of primordial tissue?

What mediator most commonly causes vasodilation in an acute inflammatory response?

What term best describes nuclear fragmentation?

Cell death associated with the normal cycle of cell replacement or as a protective mechanism of defense when the body recognizes cell defects is called?

What is the primary white blood cell found in the tissue that is responsible for phagocytosis of pathogens?

What term best describes nuclear shrinkage and increased basophilia?

What morphologic characteristic is most consistent with advanced tumor stage?

What are anticipated systemic effects of cytokines?

What term best describes the condition resulting from excess transudate or exudate in the tissue or serous cavities?

What is the most common site of cancer for males in the United States?

What cancer has one of the highest mortality rates in the United States?

What antibody(immunoglobulin) is stimulated with an allergic inflammatory response?

What type of cirrhosis is most commonly associated with chronic alcoholism?

Macronodular cirrhosis (> 3cm nodules) is most commonly associated with what disease?

A "cytokine storm" that results from a severe inflammatory response is most likely to attribute to what condition?

What is the incidence of chronic disease in the United States?

What hormone does Medullary Carcinoma of thyroid secrete?

What type of diabetes results from an absolute deficiency of insulin secretion caused by beta cell destruction?

What is a severe, advanced form of hypothyroidism that can result in heart enlargement and non-pitting edema?

What appears to be the two constant features in enabling cancer to grow?

What is the name for the aggressive variant of a corticotroph adenoma of the pituitary gland often diagnosed on a touch smear because of its morphology?

What is the most common cause of a thyroid goiter world wide?

Exposure to asbestos fibers presents a risk for what type of lung cancer?

Which of the following are common sites for breast cancer metastasis?

What hormone raises blood calcium levels?

What chronic inflammatory process is most associated with enhancing tumor promoters resulting in cancer?

Which of the following hormones is secreted by the anterior pituitary gland?

What is the etiology of Hashimoto thyroiditis?

What cells are most abundant in the parathyroid gland?

What does a “shift to the left” imply?

What is the most common hyperfunctioning pituitary adenoma?

A category 1A carcinogen is a known or presumed carcinogen based on what research?

What is the most common cause of primary hypothyroidism?

What is the nomenclature for a malignant tumor of striated muscle?

What islet cells of the pancreas secrete insulin?

What cancer is most associated with radiation exposure?

What tumor is associated with Epstein Bar virus?

What cells of the pancreas synthesize serotonin?

What is the most common malignancy of the thyroid?

What cell type leaves the blood stream and enters the tissue to become a macrophage during an inflammatory response?

Which of the following situations is most responsible for the permeability of the endothelial lining of blood vessels?

Where in the heart do myocardial infarcts have the greatest risk for wall rupture and mural thrombi?

What type of myocardial infarcts in general have the greatest risk for conduction blocks and right ventricular involvement?

What is the elastic membrane called between the intima and the media?

What is the name of retinal hemorrhages associated with infective endocarditis?

What is the greatest risk factor of atrial fibrillation?

Temporal arteritis can lead to what clinical presentation?

What term best describes the scarring and thinning of the infarcted zones, hypertrophy, and dilation after a myocardial infarction?

What factor is critical is limit endothelial clotting and allow resorption of a clot is tissue repair?

Which of the following is a common tumor to metastasize to the heart?

What pathogen most commonly causes rheumatic valve disease?

What is Cor Pulmonale?

What is the number one cause of ischemic heart disease?

What hormone is released by the adrenal gland in response to angiotensin II to increase blood pressure?

What is the most common congenital heart defect?

Transmural infarcts are most common in what clinical setting?

What is the name for infected thrombotic growths on cardiac heart valves?

Where is the most common site to have an MI?

What size aneurysm has a 25% chance of rupturing?

What vessel would most consistently be occluded in a left lateral wall MI?

What are the morphologic features of cholangiocarcinoma?

What is the outcome of secondary hemostasis?

What term best describes diminished blood flow through the portal venous system that results from obstruction or liver failure?

What is the most common site to find heterotropic pancreatic tissue?

What is the most common cause of biliary obstruction in children?

What is the most common cause of acute pancreatitis?

Which types of viral hepatitis conditions have the highest risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma?

What are considered risk factors in the conversion of a hepatocellular adenoma to hepatocellular carcinoma?

Which hormones are produced by the endocrine cells of the pancreas?

What is a major type of immune mediated vasculitis?

What enzyme is most commonly elevated in the blood in pancreatitis?

Which of the following is the most common cause of intrahepatic portal vein obstruction worldwide?

What are the most important underlying factors in hepatocarcinogenesis?

What part of the liver contains large capillaries between plates of hepatocytes that contribute to the central vein, hepatic veins, inferior vena cava?

What term best describes an accumulation of fat and bilirubin with the hepatic system?

What type of autoimmune cholangiopathy presents as a progressive, inflammatory, often granulomatous destruction of small and medium sized intrahepatic bile ducts?

What is the most common benign neoplasm of the liver?

What is the most common cause of chronic pancreatitis?

A hexagonal division of the liver with a central terminal hepatic vein and peripheral portal tracts best describe what conceptual component of the liver?

Excess alcohol consumption is known to be a higher risk for what cancers?

What coronary artery is most likely to be occluded in a left posterior wall myocardial infarction?

What are contributing factors to atrial fibrillation?

What is the name for the cytoplasmic hyaline inclusions of hepatocytes, once thought to be specific for alcoholic hepatitis?

What are conditions considered to be the root cause of primary liver disease?