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DIP Ep 558: 2024 USMLE Step 3 Free 137 Discussion Part 6a (Q51-54, super helpful for Step 2!)

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Science & Medicine, Medicine, Education, Higher Education

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 558 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts. In today's podcast, we're going to be continuing our series on the USMLA Step 3, Free 137. This is going to be part six. And again, if you're taking step two, I highly recommend you listen to this series if you can. It's probably going to help you as well, because by the time you take step three, they'll probably have released a new free free 120.

0:22.1

All right.

0:22.2

So let's just jump right into it.

0:24.3

So question 51 says, 15-year-old boy is brought to the clinic after his father noticed

0:29.5

significant swelling of the boy's chest when it was getting dressed six hours ago.

0:33.8

The patient reports a three-month history of gradually worsening, left-sided chest pain and swelling.

0:40.3

But he says he was too embarrassed to tell his parents.

0:43.3

He has not had fever, chills, nightswets, loss of appetite, weight loss or any recent trauma to the chest.

0:49.3

Medical history is unremarkable and it takes no medications.

0:52.3

The patient is a good student. He does not smoke

0:56.3

cigarettes or drink alcoholic beverages. Temperature is 97.5, pulses 69 per minute. Respirations

1:04.7

are 14 per minute and blood pressure is 115 over 70. O2 Sat is 100% on room air.

1:12.9

It's 100% on room air.

1:19.2

Examination of the head, neck, and skin discloses no abnormalities.

1:26.5

There is a fixed palpable mass measuring approximately 14 by 12 centimeters on the left chest wall that is tender to palpation. The remainder of the physical exam

1:30.6

is discloses to abnormalities. Biopsy of this mass is most likely to show which of the following.

1:38.6

To be honest with you, I absolutely love this question because this is a very good kind of question where I can almost posit that

1:48.1

most people studying this have absolutely no idea what this is. In fact, when I was looking at

1:54.0

this question, I was like, man, I have no idea what this question is. And this is a realistic

1:58.5

exam situation, right? So literally, let's let's put ourselves in an exam seat.

2:03.0

These are realistic exam situations like, I have no idea what's going on.

2:06.9

This question is really, really confusing.

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