Buzzwords

Question 1

Gingival hypertrophy

Answer 1

Side effect of calcium channel blockers

Question 2

Lumbar and Umbilical redness (Grey Turners and Cullens sign)

Answer 2

Acute pancreatitis

Question 3

Positive Murphys sign

Answer 3

Cholecystitis

Question 4

Pale stools, jaundice, abdo pain

Answer 4

Biliary obstruction

Question 5

Abdo distension, shifting dullness, caput medusae

Answer 5

Ascites + portal hypertension

Question 6

Pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum

Answer 6

IBD

Question 7

Tinkling bowel sounds

Answer 7

Bowel obstruction

Question 8

Vesicular rash + weight loss

Answer 8

Coeliac disease

Question 9

Virchows node

Answer 9

Gastric cancer (left supraclavicular lymphatic drainage of stomach)

Question 10

C14 breath test

Answer 10

For H pylori

Question 11

Rice-water stools

Answer 11

Cholera

Question 12

AMA, ASMA, AFP

Answer 12

AMA - primary biliary cirrhosis
ASMA - autoimmune hepatitis
AFP - hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 13

Diuretic for ascites

Answer 13

Spironolactone

Question 14

Corkscrew oesophagus on barium swallow

Answer 14

Oesophageal spasm

Question 15

Severe abdo pain, D&V after milk

Answer 15

Campylobacter

Question 16

Associated with cooked rice

Answer 16

Bacillus serous

Question 17

Russels sign (scratches on knuckles)

Answer 17

Self-indiced vomiting (bulimia)

Question 18

Mallorys hyaline bodies

Answer 18

Alcoholic liver disease (extra thing in cytoplasm)

Question 19

Crypt abscess/cryptitis

Answer 19

Crohns

Question 20

Onion skinning fibrosis/beading of bile ducts

Answer 20

Primary sclerosis cholangitis

Question 21

Signet ring cells on biopsy

Answer 21

Diffuse stomach cancer

Question 22

Thumb printing at splenic flexure on AXR

Answer 22

Ischaemic colitis

Question 23

Causes of abdominal mass

Answer 23

A CHEMICAL

A-AAA

C-Crohns
H-hernia
E-englarged organ
M-malignancy
I-intersusception 
C- cyst/abscess
A-ppendicitis
L-lymphadenopathy

Question 24

Causes of bowel obstruction

Answer 24

BATH VIPS

B-bolus
A-adhesions
T-tumour
H-hernia

V-volvulus
I-intersusception
P-pseudoobstruction
S-stricture

Question 25

Side effect of spironolactone

Answer 25

Gynaecomastia

Question 26

Type of mouth disease in Crohns

Answer 26

Stomatitis gangrenosum

Question 27

Dukes classification

Answer 27

A- confined to bowel wall
B- local spread outwith bowel wall
C- lymph node mets

Question 28

Causes of liver disease

Answer 28

ABCDEFGHI

A-autoimmune
B-hepB
C-hepC
D-drugs (paracetamol)
E-ethanol
F-fatty liver disease
G-growth (cancer/mets)
H-haemodynamic (CCF)
I-inflitrtation/iron (haemochromatosis/wilsons)

Question 29

What is haemochromatosis or wilsons disease?

Answer 29

Iron overload - failure in iron metabolism

Question 30

Causes of acute pancreatitis

Answer 30

GET SMASHED

G-gall stones
E- ethanol
T-trauma

S-steroids
M-mumps
A-autoimmune 
S-scorpion
H-hyperlipidaemia/hypercalcaemia
E-ERCP
D-drugs

Question 31

Causes of abdominal distension

Answer 31

6F’s

Flatus
Faeces
Foetus
Fat
Fuid
Fucking massive tumour