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Pathology revision checklist for NEET PG, INI-CET & FMGE

Every topic broken into what's actually asked from it. Tick what you've already studied — mark it Shaky if you'd fumble it under exam pressure.

General Pathology

Acute Inflammation — Cellular Events and Leukocyte Recruitment

2 points

Rolling-margination-adhesion-migration order and dead-material sensing

Endothelial retraction fluid exit and cellular-events false-statement

Amyloidosis — Classification and Diagnosis

3 points

Dialysis-associated beta-2-microglobulin amyloid and carpal tunnel

Apple-green birefringence and preferred biopsy site

Systemic amyloid types and extracellular protein properties

Apoptosis — Intrinsic/Extrinsic Machinery and Triggers

3 points

Pyroptosis caspase-1 vs apoptotic caspase-type discrimination

Apoptosome cytochrome-c/APAF-1 and intrinsic-pathway localization

Fas/CD95 death-receptor inducers vs anti-apoptotic Bcl-2

Cell Injury — Reversible vs Irreversible and Infarcts

3 points

Irreversible injury markers vs reversible change

Reperfusion bands and red-infarct false-statement trap

Dystrophic vs metastatic calcification setting

Cellular Aging and Senescence

3 points

Hayflick limit definition and telomere senescence

Sirtuin longevity/metabolic true-statement set

Werner premature-aging etiology

DNA Repair and Cell-Cycle Checkpoints

2 points

Double-strand-break repair pathway participants

Rb phosphorylation and G1 restriction-point arrest

Dysplasia, Anaplasia, Metaplasia and Metastasis

4 points

Metaplasia-dysplasia-anaplasia grading and reversible pleomorphism

Cancers not spreading lymphatically (BCC and others)

Germline retinoblastoma second cancers and intraocular metastasis

Disruption vs malformation developmental error

Fixatives and Tissue Processing

2 points

Commonest fixative, fat-preserving and electron-microscopy fixative selection

Frozen-section limitations and sample-collection method

Free Radical Injury and Neutrophil Oxidative Burst

2 points

Reactive-species ranking and membrane lipid peroxidation

NADPH-oxidase/MPO burst enzymes — CGD vs MPO deficiency

Granulomatous Inflammation and TB Lymphadenitis

3 points

Langhans giant cells + caseous necrosis TB biopsy identification

Stellate and xanthogranulomatous pattern discriminators

Psammoma-body exception and exudate feature trap

Immunohistochemistry Markers and Special Stains

3 points

INSM1 nuclear neuroendocrine marker vs cytoplasmic markers

HER2 DAB chromogen and incorrect IHC-marker pairing

Acidic-mucin and sebaceous/lipid special stains

Inflammatory Mediators — Bradykinin, Leukotrienes, Acute-Phase

3 points

Bradykinin pain/vasodilation actions in acute inflammation

Leukotriene vasoactivity exception and macrophage giant-cell cytokine

Negative acute-phase reactant (albumin) identification

Mendelian and X-linked Inheritance Patterns

3 points

Hemophilia carrier/offspring risk and prenatal diagnosis from pedigree

X-linked dominant vs recessive disorder identification

Inheritance-mode to disorder matching

Necrosis vs Apoptosis — Feature Discrimination

2 points

Apoptosis 'except/false' feature identification trap

Necrosis morphology and light-microscopy discriminator

Oncogene Activation and Growth Signaling

3 points

Growth-promoting oncogene (FGF/KIT) identification

Proto-oncogene to oncogene activation mechanisms

EMT transcription factors and receptor-kinase gene matching

Trinucleotide Repeat Disorders and Aneuploidy

3 points

Trinucleotide-repeat disorders coding vs non-coding location

Aneuploidy mosaicism, karyotype anomaly and detection method

Mosaic Turner syndrome workup essentials

Tumor Suppressor Genes and Cancer-Gene Syndromes

3 points

BRCA1/2 double-strand repair and ovarian-cancer risk

PTEN-Cowden and RET proto-oncogene syndrome links

Gene-tumor pair matching and mismatch identification

Wound Healing, Repair and Scar Formation

3 points

Granulation tissue and type-I collagen maturation timeline

Keloid vs hypertrophic scar boundary discrimination

Wound tensile-strength determinants and morphogen/mitogen factor

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