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