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ANA Boards Fodder

Connective tissue diseases are a boards favorite, and lab interpretation, including identifying ANA patterns from photos, are fair game.  I’ve put together the following table of ANA patterns as well as their associated disease states and autoantibodies for easy memorization (and easy points!).

ANA Boards Fodder

Image sources:

Centromere: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Centromere-staining_fig9_45281682

Diffuse: http://www.mbl.co.jp/e/ivd/atlas_pattern.html

Nucleolar: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ANA_NUCLEOLAR_3.jpg

Peripheral: https://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/IMMHTML/IMM003.html

Speckled: http://asc.dental.ufl.edu/ReferenceSera.html