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First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 2 CK, PDF

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by  Tao Le
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FIRST AID ™ Q&A FOR THE USM LE STEP 2 CK Second Edition SENIOR EDITORS EDITORS TAO LE, MD, MHS HERMAN SINGH BAGGA, MD Assistant Clinical Professor Resident Chief, Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Department of Urology Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco Medical Center University of Louisville THOMASL.H. HOCKER, MD KRISTEN VIERREGGER, MD Resident Resident Department of Dermatology Department of Pathology Mayo Clinic University of California, Irvine Medical Center CHRISTOPHER R. KINSELLA, JR., MD Research Fellow University of Pittsburgh Medical Center MATTHEW O'ROURKE, MD Resident Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York– Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center JOHN RHYNER, MD Resident Department of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Medical Center SADE CLARKE UDOETUK, MD Resident Department of Psychiatry Baylor College of Medicine New York / Chicago / San Francisco / Lisbon / London / Madrid / Mexico City Milan / New Delhi / San Juan / Seoul / Singapore / Sydney / Toronto Copyright © 2010, 2008 by Tao Le. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be repro- duced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 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This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Authors vii Faculty Reviewers ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii How to Contribute xv SECTION I ORGAN SYSTEMS 1 Chapter 1 Cardiovascular 3 Chapter 2 Dermatology 47 Chapter 3 Endocrinology 57 Chapter 4 Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine 91 Chapter 5 Ethics and Legal Issues 117 Chapter 6 Gastrointestinal 127 Chapter 7 Hematology/Oncology 167 Chapter 8 Infectious Disease 211 Chapter 9 Musculoskeletal 261 Chapter 10 Neurology 285 Chapter 11 Obstetrics 321 Chapter 12 Gynecology 351 Chapter 13 Psychiatry 375 Chapter 14 Pulmonary 409 Chapter 15 Renal/Genitourinary 441 SECTION II FULL-LENGTH EXAMINATIONS 471 Test Block 1 473 Test Block 2 507 Test Block 3 539 v Test Block 4 573 Test Block 5 607 Test Block 6 641 Test Block 7 675 Test Block 8 709 About the Authors 743 vi AUTHORS CYNTHIA ADAMS, MD LAURA MEINTS Resident Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics Class of 2009 Children's Hospital Boston ROBERT MICHELETTI, MD CLARISSA BARNES, MD Resident Resident Departments of Internal Medicine and Dermatology Department of Internal Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine DANIEL L. MILLER RACHEL BORTNICK, MPHIL Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program Class of 2009 Harvard Medical School Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Class of 2009 CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN, MD Resident DEEPIKA NEMANI Department of Internal Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine University of Chicago Medical Center Class of 2009 LIA CLATTENBURG, MD, MPH TIMOTHY NIESSEN Resident Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Class of 2009 Union Memorial Hospital Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Md. Class of 2009 GILLIAN DIERCKS HOWARD O'ROURKE, MD Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Resident Class of 2009 Department of Diagnostic Radiology VAHID ENTEZARI, MD University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow NISHANT PATEL Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Class of 2009 JOHNATHAN ETHRIDGE ROHITH PIYARATNA, MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Class of 2009 Resident Department of Anesthesiology ERICA Y. FAN Stanford University Medical Center St. Louis University School of Medicine ANTHONYPRINCE, MD Class of 2009 Resident CARL ERIK FISHER Department of Otolaryngology Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Mount Sinai Medical Center Class of 2009 FIORELLA SAPONARA, MD SATTAR GOJRATY, MD Resident Resident Transitional Program Department of Internal Medicine Maimonides Medical Center Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania New York City NILAY KAVATHIA, MD ASHA JAYENDRAKUMAR SHAH, MD Resident Intern Department of Internal Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Emory University School of Medicine vii MONICA E. SHUKLA BRANT W. ULLERY, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Resident Class of 2009 Department of Surgery Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania MEGHAN SISE Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons KELLY VRANAS, MD Class of 2009 Resident Department of Internal Medicine D'MITRI SOFIANOS, MD Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Resident Department of Orthopedic Surgery DAVID WEI University of Utah Medical Center Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Class of 2009 ANNA E. TEETER Duke University School of Medicine ZACHARY ZAVODNI Class of 2009 Duke University School of Medicine JOSHUA D. UDOETUK, MD Class of 2009 Transitional Intern University of Texas-Houston Medical School ASSOCIATE AUTHORS MARINA FRIMER, MD SUNIL SHETH Resident Harvard Medical School Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health Class of 2009 Albert Einstein College of Medicine LEANNE STANLEY MARK J. MANN, MD Duke University School of Medicine Resident Class of 2009 Department of Urology State University of New York Upstate Medical University TIAN ZHANG Syracuse, N.Y. Harvard Medical School Class of 2009 PARIN J. PATEL, MD Resident Department of Internal Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania viiiviii FACULTY REVIEWERS JONATHAN W. BRESS, MD KERILYN MORGAN, MD Nephrologist Associate Program Director Philadelphia Hypertension & Nephrology Consultants Department of Internal Medicine Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center RACHEL CHONG, MD Phoenix, Ariz. Endocrinologist RINI BANERJEE RATAN, MD Lakeridge Health Corporation Assistant Clinical Professor PETER DANYI, MD, MPH, MBA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Instructor, Hospitalist Program Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons Division of General Internal Medicine ELIZABETH SASTRE, MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Assistant Professor ROBIN GIRDHAR, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vice Chairperson and Director of Quality Assurance Attending Physician Division of Cardiology Medical Service, Primary Care Shadyside Hospital Tennessee Valley Healthcare Veteran’s Administration Hospital University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine JERRY D. SMILACK, MD ANDREW J. LENNEMAN, MD Emeritus Associate Professor of Medicine Clinical Fellow Mayo College of Medicine Cardiovascular Medicine Division Retired Consultant Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic ESTER C. LITTLE, MD MYRA J. WICK, MD, PHD Associate Director Banner Liver Disease Center Department of Medical Genetics Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic University of Arizona College of Medicine APRIL ZHU, MD MARCUS A. MCFERREN, MD, PHD The Permanente Medical Group Department of Dermatology Santa Clara, Calif. Yale-New Haven Hospital ix

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