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Bile ducts and gallbladder Flashcards

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What is the pathology behind PSC? What is the natural history? What is the median survival?

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Fibrosing inflammation Chronic progression from initial cholangitis to periportal hepatitis to septal fibrosis to bridging necrosis to cirrhosis 12 years

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What are the cholangiographic features of PSC?

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Band strictures (beaded appearance) Nonuniform, segmental strictures Pruned tree appearance of intrahepatic ducts Diverticular outpouching Mural irregularity

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What is the feared complication with PSC? When is is suspected?

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Cholcangiocarcinoma Suspect when there is a dominant stricture

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What is the mechanism for PBC? What diseases is it associated with? What is the marker? What is the pathophysiology

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T-cell mediated immune response RA, Sjogrens, Hashimotos Antimitochondrial antibody Small duct destruction with inflammatory cellular infiltrate

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What are the cholangiographic features of PBC? Early vs late

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Early - may be normal Late - Cirrhosis, crowding, tortuosity and deformity of the bile ducts. Enlarged benign reactive lymph nodes in the hepatic portal

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What are the bugs related to AIDS induced cholangiopathy?

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Cryptosporidium and CMV

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Intrahepatic ductal strictures with papillary stenosis?

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AIDS cholangiopathy

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What feature is unique to AIDS cholangiopathy?

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Papillary stenosis

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What is ascending cholangitis?

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Obstruction of the biliary tree with bacterial infection of the bile.

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What is a common liver finding in ascending cholangitis?

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Hepatic abscess

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Cystic hepatic lesion communicating with biliary tree in septic patient?

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Hepatic abscess complicating ascending cholangitis

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What is the most common bug in ascending cholangitis?

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E coli

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Bile duct stones Ductal dilation and focal strictures Acute peripheral tapering Decreased arborization of intrahepatic ducts

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Oriental cholangiohepatitis

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What is the bug in oriental cholangiohepatitis

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Clonorchis, Ascariasis, nutritional deficiency

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What is the main difference between PSC and PBC?

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PBC affects small bile ducts only

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What is the target sign in relation to choledocholithiasis?

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Ring of water attenuation around a stone

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What is the crescent sign in relation to choledocholithiasis

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Only a crescent of water surrounds the calculus

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18
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What are the 3 types of gallstone?

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1) cholesterol 75% 2) pigmented 20% - crystallization of calcium bilirubinate, can be black (blood, sickle cell) or brown (bile, infection) 3) Mixed

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What is Admirand’s triangle

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Balance of cholesterol, bile acids, and lecithin (phospholipid) in the gallbladder

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20
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What is a pseudocalculus?

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Apparent filling defect within the ampulla due to sphincter of oddi spasm

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What is a helpful sign to differentiate pseudocalculus from real stone?

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Pseudocalculus will only have a crescent along the superior aspect that disappears with time/glucagon Real stone will have a crescent along the inferior aspect as well.

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Differentiate spasm of sphincter of oddi with Papillary stenosis?

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Spasm will relax over time

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What is a sign of fixed narrowing of the ampulla?

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Upstream dilation of both the common bile and pancreatic.

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24
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What are the associations with ampullary carcinoma?

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FAP, HNPCC

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25
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Inflammatory stricture of the common hepatic or common bile duct due to impacted stone in the cystic duct or neck of the gallbladder.

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Mirrizzi syndrome

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What is the most common cause of common hepatic duct narrowing?

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Hilar lymphadenopathy

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Multiple and recurrent papillary adenomas in the biliary tract. US - multiple solid filling defects attached to the wall of a dilated extrahepatic duct extremely rare

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Biliary papillomatosis

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Are papillary adenomas premalignant?

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Yes

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29
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Multiloculated cystic lesion along the biliary tree with well defined thick capsule? Seen in middle aged white women

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Biliary cystadenoma

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30
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Differentiate cystadenoma from echinococcal and hepatic abscess

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Echinococcal - peripheral intracystic cysts and wall calcification and history of travel to endemic area Abscess - multiple well defined cystic masses with rim hyperenhancement and fevers/leukocytosis

31
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What are signs of a biliary cystadenocarcinoma over cystadenoma?

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Carcinoma: thick septae enhancing nodular components calcifications

32
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What are the two types are biliary cystadenocarcinoma> which one has a better prognosis?

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Those that contain ovarian stroma and those that do not Ovarian stroma favors better prognosis

33
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What is the analogy to intraductal cholcangiocarcinoma?

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IPMN pancreas

34
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Which cholangiocarcinoma has the best prognosis?

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Those growing in the CBD (ie extrahepatic) have easier chance for resection

35
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What is a klatskin tumor?

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Cholangiocarcinoma involving the upper common hepatic duct

36
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What is a limiting factor for removal of a klatskin tumor?

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One hepatic lobe must be tumor free

37
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What is the enhancement pattern of a klatskin tumor?

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Hypo/isoattenuating compared to liver during arterial and portal venous phase Enhances on delayed phase

38
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Why do scirrhous cholangiocarcinomas enhance on delayed imaging?

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They incite a desmoplastic reaction

39
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What are the two types of cholangiocarcinoma?

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Intra and extrahepatic

40
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What is the most common biliary tract anomaly?

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Aberrant intrahepatic duct draining into a contralateral main or common hepatic duct.

41
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Are biliary leaks more common with laparoscopic or open cholecystectomy?

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laparoscopic

42
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Name 3 associations with choledochal cysts

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Biliary tract stenosis/atresia Congenital hepatic fibrosis Medullary sponge kidney

43
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What is the patholophysiology choledochal cysts

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Anomalous connection between pancreatic duct and biliary system allows pancreatic secretions to weaken the wall of the duct

44
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choledochal cyst types

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1 - fusiform

2 - pedunculated

3 - at ampulla, choledochocele

4 - intra and extrahepatic

5 - intrahepatic (carolis)

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What is a type 3 choledochal cyst?

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Choledochocele

47
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What is carolis disease? is it AR or AD? How does it present radiographically? What are the associations?

What is a good differentiating feature between carolis and PSC?

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Autosomal recessive disease, results in alternating regions of narrowing and saccular/fusiform dilatation within the intrahepatic ducts

Associated with renal diseases (medullary sponge kidney, polycystic kidney disease, medullary cystic disease)

PSC is rarely saccular

48
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What are the risks with carolis disease?

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100x risk of adenocarcinoma

stone formation

recurrent cholangitis

liver abscess

49
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What biliary disease does renal tubular ectasia have an association with?

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Caroli disease

50
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How does gangrenous cholecystitis present on US? CT?

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Intramural edema or sloughing of the mucosa into GB lumen

Pericholecystic fluid collection due to perforation

51
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What bug is associated with emphysematous cholecystitis? What disease is associated and what percentage of patients have it?

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Clostridium perfringens

Diabetes 30%

52
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How does gas appear on US?

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Dirty acoustic shadowing

vs. clean shadowing such as that seen with a calculus

53
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What are 6 causes of acalculous cholecystitis?

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Hyperalimentation

Trauma

ICU setting

Infectious colitis

Vascular disease

Immunocompromised

54
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What is the cause of porcelain gallbladder?

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Chronically obstructed cystic duct

Chronic cholecystitis

55
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What is the risk and percentage of that risk associated with porcelain gallbladder

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25% incidence of gallbladder carcinoma

56
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What is the wall echo shadow sign?

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Seen in a gallbladder full of stones

2 echogenic lines with an intervening sonolucent line

57
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What is milk of calcium bile?

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Calcium carbonate/phosphate/bilirubinate that is highly concentrated within the GB due to cystic duct obstruction

58
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What is gallbladder sludge?

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Concentrated, echogenic bile containing particulate material consisting of cholesterol crystals and calcium bilirubinate granules

59
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What is tumefactive sludge?

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Ball of sludge, can mimic mass but wont have posterior shadowing

60
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What makes up a cholesterol polyp?

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Single layer of epithelium covering a core of cholesterol filled cells

61
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How does metastatic melanoma present in the gallbladder?

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Multiple polypoid intraluminal masses

62
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Echogenic foci within a thickened gallbladder wall with comet down artifact suggests what? What is the pathology behind it?

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Adenomyomatosis

Convoluted infoldings of the normal gallbladder mucosa (rokitansky aschoff sinuses) with smooth muscle proliferation

63
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What is focal adenomyomatosis?

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Can cause segmental narrowing and distort lumen with a masslike appearance

64
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How many gallbladder carcinomas present as polypoid lesions? What is the most common manifestation? How are the differentiated from sludge on US?

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25%

Infiltrating mass arising from gallbladder fossa extending into the liver

Blood flow on doppler will be seen with cancer

65
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What are the two types of gallbladder cancer

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Schirrous - infiltrates liver from gallbladder

Polypoid - grows into GB lumen

66
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What is the most common tumor to metastasize to the gallbladder?

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MElanoma

67
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What is a phrygian cap?

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Congenital infolding of the gallbladder wall with no known clinical significance

68
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Differentiate between a phrygian cap and focal adenomyomatosis?

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Phrygian cap will always be in the fundus and have a THIN membrane

Adenomyomatosis will be thicker and can be located anywhere

69
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What is the cutoff for a normal gallbladder wall thickness? What are some causes?

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3mm

Incomplete distension

Cholecystitis, adenomyomatosis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, hypoproteinemia, CHF, renal failure, pancreatitis

70
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Cystic thickening of the gallbladder wall is seen with what?

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Gallbladder varices

71
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Gallbladder varices should prompt a search for what?

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Portal vein thrombosis

72
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Name 5 cystic duct variations

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Low insertion onto CBD

Conjoined cystic and CBD

Absent cystic duct

Insertion into RHD

Insertion at bifurcation of CHD

73
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Name 3 intrahepatic ductal variations

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Right posterior duct into the LHD

Right posterior into the CHD

Right posterior into the CHD bifurcation

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