Nagging Synonyms

Sometimes it may happen that you might face a question regarding a disease / syndrome / test / pathway you never heard of, and you guess the answer and goes wrong, only to find later that the entity was just a synonym of another which you knew very well. Here in this section, I have tried to include many of such, 'Nagging Synonyms' as I would put.

NAGGING SYNONYMS

1. Carrion's Disease - Oroya Fever ... (Bartonella Bacilliformis, Vector: Sandfly)

2. Le-juene Syndrome - Cri-du-chat syndrome or 5p-deletion syndrome.

3. Dickeris-Horecker Pathway : HMP Shunt (Phosphoglunoate oxidative pathway)

4. Crow-Fukase Syndrome : POEMS Syndrome.

5. Bassen - Kornzweig Syndrome : Abetalipoproteinemia.

6. Steele-Richardson-Olzewski Syndrome - Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

7. Lou Gherigh's disease - Motor Neuron Disease.

8. Lafora's Disease - Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy.

9. Korsakoff Mayer Syndrome - Poly Arteritis Nodosa.

10. Gunther's Disease - Congenital Erythropoietic Protoporphyria.

11. Gull Disease - Myxedema.

12. Bechterew's Disease - Ankylosing Spondylosis.

13. Albers-Schonberg Disease - Marble Bone Disease / Osteopetrosis.

14. Dejerine - Roussy Syndrome - Facio-Scapulo humeral dystrophy.

15. Little Disease - Congenital Spastic Diplegia.

16. Louis Bar Synddrome - Ataxia-Telengectasia

17. Runt Disease - Graft Versus Host Disease.

18. Grawitz Tumor - Renal cell Carcinoma.

19. Pena-Shokeir Syndrome - Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita with Pulmonary Hypoplasia.

20. Ogilive Syndrome - Acute Colonic Pseudo-obstruction.

To be Continued...

DV..