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Abdomen - GIT Flashcards

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Pneumoperitoneum

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Perforation from peptic ulcer, infarction, malignant neoplasm, obstruction, iatrogenic

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Gasless abdomen

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Ascites, pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, abdominal mass

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Upper third pharyngeal diverticulum

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Zenker, lateral pharyngeal (glass blowers or trumpeters) and Killian-Jamieson

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Middle third pharyngeal diverticulum

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Traction and congenital

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Lower third pharyngeal diverticulum

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Ulcer, Mallory-Weiss, Postsurgical

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Esophageal ulceration

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Inflammatory (Reflux, Barrett, Candida, Caustic, Crohn and drug-induced) and Neoplastic (Leiomyosarcoma, lymphoma)

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Smooth esophageal strictures

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Inflammatory (Scleroderma, iatrogenic), neoplastic (SCC, leiomyoma, mediastinal mass) and Achalasia

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Irregular esophageal stricture

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Inflammatory (Reflux or Crohn), Neoplastic (Plummer-Vinson, Barrett, SCC, leiomyosarcoma, lymphoma)

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Primary malignant stomach neoplasm with filling defect

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Carcinoma, Lymphoma, GIST

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Polyps with stomach filling defect

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Hyperplastic (MC), adenomatous (ass’d pernicious anemia) and hamartomatous (multiple, antrum, Peutz-Jegher, Gardner syndrome)

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Submucosal stomach masses with filling defect

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Leiomyoma, Lipoma, Neurofibroma and Mets

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Thickened stomach folds

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Inflammatory (Gastritis, Zollinger-Ellison, Crohn, acute pancreatitis), Neoplastic (Lymphoma, carcinoma, eosinophilic gastroenteritis) , Menetrier disease and Varices

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Linitis plastica

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Neo (gastric carcinoma, lymphoma, mets (breast), pancreatic carcinoma), inflammatory (Corrosives, radiotherapy, TB, eosinophilic gastroenteritis

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Bulls-eye lesion in stomach

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Submucosal mets (melanoma, lymphoma commonest), leiomyoma, Pancreatic rests, neurofibroma

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Decreased duodenal folds

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Scleroderma, Crohn, cystic fibrosis, amyloidosis

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Duodenal fold thickening or mass

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Neo (adenocarcinoma, Brunner gland hamartoma, adenoma, GIST, leiomyoma, lymphona, NET, mets (melanoma, breast or lung)), inflammatory (ulcer, Crohn, hamatoma, ischemia, worm infestation)

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Dilated small bowel with normal folds

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Mechanical obstruction, paralytic ileus, celiac disease, scleroderma

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Dilation small bowel with thickened folds

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Ischemia, Crohn, Lymphoma, Zollinger-Ellison

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Small bowel strictures

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Crohn, radiation, lymphoma, carcinoma, mets

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Thickened folds in non-dilated small bowel - regular and smooth

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Intramural hematoma, ischemia, radiation therapy, edema, amyloidosis or eosinophilic enteritis

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Thickened folds in non-dilated small bowel - IRrregular and distorted

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Crohn, Zollinger-ellison, lymhoma, mets, TB, amyloidosis, Giardiasis

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Multiple nodules in small bowel

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Crohns, Whipple disease, Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, lymphoma, Polyposis (Peutz-Jegher, Gardner, Canada-Crohnkite), infection (thypoid, yersinia

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Colonic polyps

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Adenomatous (Simple, familial polyposis syndromes), hamartomatous (Peutz-Jegher), ulcerative colitis, Crohn, Canada-Cronkite

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Colonic strictures

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Neo (Carcinoma, lymhoma), Inflam (UC, Crohn), ischemia, infective (TB, amoeba, schistosomiasis), extrinsic mass (tumors or endometriosis)

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Diffuse colitis

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UC, CMV, Ecoli, pseudomembranous colitis

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Primarily Right-sided colitis

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Crohn, Salmonella, TB, ischemia

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Primarily left-sided colitis

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UC, ischemia, diverticultis, epiploic appendagitis

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Pneumatosis intestinalis

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Low risk (asthma, cystic fibrosis, collagen vascular disease, corticosteroids) and high risk (ischemia, intestinal obstruction, toxic megacolon, trauma)

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Megacolon in an adult WITHOUT mucosal changes

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Distal obstruction, ileus, purgative abuse

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Megacolon in an adult WITH mucosal changes

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Inflam (UC, Crohn), ischemia, dysentry

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Colonic thumbprinting

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UC, Crohn, Ischemia, schistosomiasis, lymphoma and mets

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Cystic pancreatic mass

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Pseudocyst, VHL, carcinoma

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Paraaortic cystic nodes

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Testicular or cervical carcinoma

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Retroperitoneal cystic tumor

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Lymphangioma, leiomyosarcoma, cystic teratoma, Mullerian cyst

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Retrorectal space widening (>1.5cm at S4)

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Normal in obese, inflam (UC, Crohn, abscess), Neo (carcinoma, mets, sacral tumors), developmental cysts

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Cystic renal masses

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Polycystic kidney disease, Cortical cysts (simple or VHL, Turner, tuberous sclerosis-related), medullary cysts

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