11a.) Endoscopic Tour of GI Tract

Question 1

What is an OGD?

What does an OGD allow you to visualise?

Answer 1

• OGD= oesophagogastrodenoscopy
• Endoscope that allows you to visuallise oesophagus, stomach and first section of duodenum

Question 2

What is a colonoscopy?

Answer 2

Endoscop inserted into anus allowing you to visualise colon

Question 3

What is a laproscopy?

What must the periotneal cavity be insufflated with?

Answer 3

• Way of visualising external surfaces of GI tract by inserting camera +/- other tools thorugh small ports in abdominal wall
• Insufflated with CO2

Question 4

What is a laparoscope used for? (2)

Answer 4

• Diagnostics
• Surgery

Question 5

What is Denonvillier’s fascia?

Answer 5

Fascia that seperates urinary bladder and prostrate from rectum

Question 6

What is a TRUS biopsy?

Answer 6

Trans rectal ultrasound biopsy (must put needle through Denonvillier’s fascia)

Question 7

What is culdocentesis?

Answer 7

Removal of fluid from pouch of douglas (go via vagina)

Question 8

The greater sac is divided into supraclic and infracolic compartments by…?

Answer 8

Transverse mesocolon

Paracolic gutters (space between lateral side of ascending & descending colon and posterolateral abdominal wall)