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..
