Buzzwords Flashcards
bird beak appearane
achalasia, if in lower GI imaging is sign of bowel obstruction
Grey turner’s + Cullen’s sign?
acute pancreatitis
mnemonic for causes of acute pancreatitis
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Gallstones
Ethanol
Trauma
Steroids Mumps Autoimmune Scorpion bite Hyperlidiaemia/ hyperthermia/ hypercalcaemia ERCP Drugs
Murphy’s sign positive
cholecystitis/cholangitis
pale stools + jaundice + abdo pain
biliary obstruction
abdo distension, caput medusae, shifting dullness
portal hypertension + ascites
pyoderma gangreosum
Crohn’s /UC
tinkling bowel sounds
bowel obstruction
vesicular rash + wt loss
Coeliac disease
Virchow’s node (left-supra-clavicular)
gastric cancer
urea breath test
H pylori
C14 breath test
bacterial overgrowth
rice water stools
cholera
primary biliary cirrhosis
presence of AMA (anti-mitochondrial antibodies)
autoimmune hepatitis
presence of ASMA (anti-smooth muscle antibodies)
AFP?
hepatocellular carcinoma
cobblestone mucosa
indicating deep fissuring ulceration of mucosa found in Crohn’s disease
diuretic for ascites due to cirrhosis
spironolactone
corkscrew oesophagus on barium swallow
diffuse oesophageal spasm
Russell’s sign
self induced vomiting - see marks from teeth touching hand
mallory hyaline bodies
alcoholic liver disease and chronic active hepatits
Onion skinning fibrosis and beading of bile ducts
primary sclerosing cholangitis
signet ring cells seen on biopsy
diffuse stomach cancer
thumb printing on X-ray commonly at splenic flexure
ischaemic colitis
charcot’s triad
acute cholangitis (fever, jaundice + RUQ secondary to cholelithiasis)
antibodies for autoimmune hepatits
ANA (nuclear), AMA (mitochondrial), ASMA (smooth muscle)
