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USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes Correction List

This document provides a list of corrections to be made in USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes textbooks for the editions covering Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. Over 30 corrections are listed, specifying the page number, location on the page such as a table or figure, and the correction that needs to be made such as changing or removing a word or phrase. The corrections appear to be minor errors or outdated information that should be fixed in future printings of the textbooks.

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USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes Correction List

This document provides a list of corrections to be made in USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes textbooks for the editions covering Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. Over 30 corrections are listed, specifying the page number, location on the page such as a table or figure, and the correction that needs to be made such as changing or removing a word or phrase. The corrections appear to be minor errors or outdated information that should be fixed in future printings of the textbooks.

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USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes Correction List

20082009 Edition (Red Cover) April 2010

Pediatrics
p. 2 Table 1-2, Last row and last column: Common Injuries During Deliveries, Hypocalcemia should read Hypercalcemia p. 5 Table 1-4, Defect row and Classic Galactosemia column: Comparison of Two Newborn Screening Diseases, the two mentions of G-1-P should be changed to Gal-1-P. p. 13 Figure 1-3: Thalassemia minor should be deleted from the bulleted list under Coombs(+). Also, Biliary atresia should be added under the bulleted list under Direct. p. 25 Under Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY), Findings: The bullet discussing long limbs should read Long limbs (decreased upper:lower segment ratio) and increased arm span p. 40 Homocystinuria and Sotos syndrome text should be further indented to fall underneath Tall Stature section p. 60 Table 6-4. Measles: 3rd row under Management should read: Vaccine only within 72 hours of exposure for susceptible individuals. p. 63 Influenza Vaccine, under Inactivated influenza vaccine, for children 623 months should read for children 659 months Similarly, under live influenza vaccine, healthy people 549 years of age should read healthy people 2 29 years of age p. 95 Table 9-1, in row for Mild intermittent, the daytime symptoms should read 2/week, and the nighttime symptoms should read and 2/month. Similarly, in row for Mild persistent, the daytime symptoms column should read 3/week, and the nighttime symptoms column should read and 3/month.

p. 101 Table 10-2, T cells row: Bronchiectasis should appear without the phrase persistent CNS enteroviral infection p. 110 First Sidebar Note: The term Amblyopia should read Strabismus p. 128 Patent Ductus Arteriosis (PDA), Presentation: The phrase (to-and-fro murmur) should be deleted p. 202 Laboratory findings, bullet 4 should read Increased free erythrocyte protoporhyrin (FEP)

Internal Medicine
p. 2 Travel Medicine, third-to-last paragraph: For patients who are pregnant and require chemoprophylaxis for malaria, the combination of atovaquone and proguanil is the preferred regimen should read chloroquine is the regimen of choice. Mefloquine is used where chloroquineresistant malaria is present. p. 21 When to suspect a thyroid carcinoma: The sentence Men and the elderly have a higher incidence than women of thyroid malignancy should be deleted. p.38 Paragraph starting, C-11 hydroxilase deficiency: First line, hyperkalemia should read hypokalemia. p. 40 Last paragraph on page: Obtaining plasma metanephrine levels should read Obtaining 24-hour urinary VMA, metanephrines, and free catecholamines are the best initial tests. p. 82 Under Carcinoid syndrome, under Pathogenesis, first line should read the neuroendocrine system. p. 147 Table 1-5-14: Under EKG, line 3, RR interval narrows should read RR interval lengthens p.155 Under Ventricular arrhythmias, under Clinical Manifestation: Bullet 2 Dash 3 should read, Intermittent canon waves in the jugular venous pulses caused by the simultaneous contraction of the atrium and the ventricles p. 177 Under Lymphoma, under Hodgkin Disease, in the third line contagious should be changed to contiguous. p.193 Under Influenza, under Treatment, in the forth line from the bottom in the second and third trimester should be changed to all pregnant women regardless of trimester of pregnancy. p.199 Under Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, in the fifth line cefotaxime should be removed. p.266 Under Acidosis, under Normal Anion Gap, in the last line Uretero sigmoidoscopy should be changed to Ureterosigmoidostomy.

p. 272 Under Treatment, under Lifestyle Modification, in the last line drop in diastolic blood pressure should be changed to drop in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. p. 274 Under Secondary Hypertension, under Renal Artery Stenosis, in the first line arthrosclerosis should be changed to atherosclerosis. p. 284 Last sentence on page should read flattened only on bottom. p. 290 Second line from top should read but will increase over 24-48 hours p. 294 Third line from bottom should read to the terminal bronchioles with destruction of airspace walls. p. 340 Immediately before Diagnosis, the sentence should read when the blood cells clog up the arachnoid granulations p. 355 Etiology, #5 should read Systemic Hypertension

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