Buzzwords Flashcards
Gingival hypertrophy and gingivectomy/ biting on own gums
side effect of calcium channel blockers or pheytoin
Bird beak appearance and distended oesophagus
achalasia (or in lower GI is it bowel obstruction)
Grey Turner’s (lumbar redness) and Cullen’s sign (umbilical redness)
acute pancreatitis
mnemonic for acute pancreatitis causes
Idiopathic
Gallstones
Ethanol
Trauma
Steroids Mumps Atuoimmune Scorpion bites Hyperlipidaemia/hypothermia/hypercalcaemia ERCP Drugs
I GET SMASHED
Murphy’s sign positive
cholecystitis (inspiratory arrest when palpating the RUQ on inspiration)
pale stools, jaundice, abdominal pain
biliary obstruction
abdominal distension, caput medusae, shifting dullness
ascites and portal hypertension
pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum
Crohn’s or UC
tinkling bowel sounds
bowel obstruction
sheep farming
hyatid disease
vesicular rash and weight loss
coeliac disease
rose spots that blanch on pressure
typhoid
virchow’s node (left supra-clavicular)
gastric cancer
urea breath test
H.pylori
cryptosporidium
HIV, drug users, TB PMHx
13C breath test
bacterial overgrowth
rice-water like stools
vibrio cholera
presence of AMA
primary biliary cirrhosis
presence of ASMA
autoimmune hepatitis
alpha feto protein assay
hepatocellular carcinoma or teratoma
cobblestone mucosa
indicating deep fissuring ulceration fo the mucosa in Crohn’s disease
diuretic for ascites
spironolactone
corkscrew oesophagus on Ba swallow
diffuse oesophageal spasm
severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea after raw milk
campylobacter
scalloping on endoscopy
HIV
Russell’s sign
bullimia
south east Asia, thickening in small bowel folds and flocculation in Ba enema
tropical sprue
mallory’s hyaline bodies
alcoholic liver disease and chronic active hepatitis
crypt abscess and cryptitis
inflammatory bowel UC
onion skinning fibrosis and beading of bile ducts
PSC
signet ring cells sent on biopsy
linitis plastica
diffuse stomach cancer1
thumb-printing on X-ray at splenic flexure
ischaemic colitis
charcot’s triad
fever
jaundice
abdominal pain
secondary to acute cholangitis
causes of abdominal mass
AAA
Crohn's Hernia Enlarged organ Malignancy Intussusception Cyst or abscess Appendicitis Lymphandenopathy
causes of bowel obstruction
Bolus
Adhesions
Tumour
Hernia
Volvulus
Intussusception
Pseudo-obstruction
Stricture
red jelly sputum
caveatting lesions in upper zone CXR
klebsiella pneumoniae
bloody diarrhoea
fragmented RBCs
undercooked burger
metallic green stool cultures
E coli 0157
red macule on body on examination
salmonella typhi
playing with turtles, undercooked or stale chicken
salmonella enterididis
bloody diarrhoea, haemorrhagic mucosa with ulcerations on distal colon
shigella dysenteria
india, severe dehydration, watery diarrhoea
vibrio cholerae
unpasteurised or raw milk, Guillain Barre syndrome
campylobacter jejuni
