Ch 17 - GI Tract Flashcards
most common site of esophageal atresia
at or near the tracheal bifurcation
MC site of intestinal atresia
duodenum
MC form of congenital atresia
imperforate anus
failure of the cloacal diaphragm to involute
imperforate anus
incomplete closure of the abdominal musculature with herniaition of abd vicera into a membranous sac
omphalocele
MC site of ectopic gastric mucosa (inlet patch)
upper 1/3 of esophagus
small patches of etopic mucosa in the small bowel or colon leading to occult blood loss d/t peptic ulceration of adjacent mucosa
gastric heterotopia
blind outpouching of alimentary tract that commuicated with the lume and includes three layers of the bowel wall
true diverticulum
MC true diverticulum and MC location
Meckel’s, ileum
failed involution of vitelline duct
Meckel’s
rule of 2’s
- 2% of pop
- w/in 2 ft of ileocecal valve
- 2 in long
- 2x as common in males
- usually see s/s by 2 yo
MC site of aquired diverticula
sigmoid colon
- regurgitation
- projectile nonbilious vomiting
- frequent re-feeding
- presents btwn 3-6 wk of life
- firm, ovid, 1-2 cm abd mass
congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
distal intestinal segment that lacks both missner submucosal and auerbach meyenteric plexus
hirschprung disease
- neck mass
- regurgitation
- halitosis
- > 50 yo
Zenker divertiulae
- increased lower eso sphincter tone
- inability to relax LES
- eso aperistalsis
- d/t ganglion cell degeneration
primary achalasia
- result of chagas disease
- destruction of the meyenteric plexus
- failure of peristalsis and eso dilation
secondary achalasia
- achalasia
- ACT hormone-resistan adrenal insufficiency
- alacrima
Allgrove (triple A) syndrome
longitudinal tears in the GE jxn ass’d with severe retching or vomiting secondary to acute ETOH ingestion
Mallory-Weiss tears
- severe chest pain
- tachypnea
- shock
- severe mediastinitiis
- transmural tearing
- rupture of disal eso
Boerhaave syndrome
MC carcinoma to arise from barrett eso
eso adenocarcioma
MC site of eso adenocarcinoma
distal 1/3 eso
- pain or difficulty swallowing
- progressive weight loss
- hematemesis
- chest pain
- vomiting
eso adenocarcinoma
ca ass’d with:
- etoh and tobacco
- hot beverage consumption
- plummer-vincent syndrome
- poverty
- diets low in fruits and veggies
- AA’s
- Iran, central China, Hong Kong, Brazil, S Africa
sq cell carcinoma
MC site of sq cell ca of the eso
middle 1/3 of eso
upper 1/3 eso ca mets to…
cerivcal LNs
middle 1/3 eso ca mets to… (3 nodes)
mediastinal, paratracheal, and tracheobronchial nodes
lower 1/3 eso ca mets to…
gastric and celiac nodes
- dysphagia
- odynophagia
- eso obst
- alteration of diet
- weight loss
- tumor hemorrhage
- sepsis
- food aspiration
sq cell ca of eso
high amplitude contractions of the distal eso d/t loss of inner cirular lay and outer longitudinal layer of smooth mm contractions
nutcraker eso
repetitive, simultaneous contractions of the distal eso smooth mm
diffuse esophageal spasm
- result of portal HTN
- present in nearly 1/2 of cirrhosis pts
gastroesophageal varices
G cells
antrum, secrete gastrin
parietal cells
fudus and body, secrete acid
foveolar cells
cardia and antrum, mucin-secreting
- moderate edema and slight vascular congestion on histo
- foveolar cell hyperplasia
- corkscrew profiles
- epithelia proliferation
gastropathy and mild acute gastritis
NPs above basement membrane
active inflammation - seen in gastritis
- erosion of gastric mucosa
- pronounced neutrophilic infiltrate
- fibrin-containing purulent exudate in lumen
acute erosive hemorrhagic gastritis
ulcers ass’d with shock, sepsis, or severe trauma
stress ulcers
ulcers in proximal duodenum ass’d with severe burns or trauma
curling ulcers
gastirc, duoenal, and eso ulcers ass’d with intracranial dz; high incidence of perforation
cushing ulcers
multiple ulcers found anywhere in the stomach
stress ulcers
- submucosal aa that doesn’t branch properly
- aa is 10x the normal size of gastric capillaries
- common along lesser curvature near GE junction
Dieluafor lesion
- longitudinal stripes of edematous/erythmatous mucosa
- strips of less injured pale mucosa
- ass’d wit cirrohsis and systemic sclerosis
- usually idopathic
- can cause fecal occult or Fe def anemia
gastric antral vasular ectasia (GAVE)
MCC of chronic gastritis
H. pylori inf
MCC of diffuse atrophic gastritics (not ass’d with H. pylori)
autoimmune gastritis
less severe, more persistent nausea and abd pain, sometimes ass’d with vomiting
chronic gastritis
strain of H. pylori that colonizes the gastric body and causes multifocal atrophic gastritis
CagA expressing strains
most common site of H. pylori in the stomach
antrum
stain used to visualize H. pylori
warthin-starry silver stain
- acholrhydria
- vit B12 def
- edocrine cell hyperplasia
- reduced serum pepsinogen conc
- Abs to parietal cells n IF
- gastritis that spares antrum
autoimmune gastritis
principal agent of injury in autoimmune gastritis
CD4+ T cells directed against pareital cell components (esp the H+/K+ ATPase
- diffuse mucosal damage of the oxynitic mucosa w/in the body and fundus
- vitamin B12 def
- intestinal metaplasia (++ goblet cells and columnar absorptive cells)
- Abs to parietal cells and IF
autoimmune gastritis
- dense infiltrates of eosiniphils in the mucosa and muscularis usually in antral or pyloric region
- peripheral eosinophilia
- inrcreased serum IgE
eosinophilic gastritis
- MC in F
- nonspecific abd s/s
- thickened folds in stomach covered by small nodules with central ulceration
- affects entire stomach
- intraepithelial T lymphocytes
lymphocytic gastritis
- any gastritis that contains well-formed granulomas or aggregates of epitheliod MPs
- MCC is Chron’s dz
- narrowing and rigidity of gastric antrum
granulomatous gastritis
complication of chronic gastritis that causes chronic mucosal ulceration affecting the duodenum or stomach
peptic ulcer disease
3 things that almost all peptic ulcers are ass’d with
- H. pylori
- smoking
- NSAIDs
MC site of peptic ulcers
proximal duodenum
MC site of gastric peptic ulcers
lesser curvature near interface of body and antrum
heaped up margins
characteristic of ca
round/oval sharply punched-out defect
classic peptic ulcer
- epigastric burning or aching
- Fe def anemia
- pain 1-3 hr post meals
- worse at night
- releaved by milk or eating
- N/V, bloating, belching, wt loss
- back, ULQ, or chest pain
peptic ulcer
inf that can induce MALT and give rise to a B cell lymphoma
H. pylori gastritis`
- exuberant reative epi proliferation
- entrapment of epi-lined cysts
- can minic invasive adenocarcinoma
gastritis cystica
- excess TGF-alpha secretion
- irregular enlarged rugae in body and fundus
- hyperplasia of foveolar mucous cells
- elongated, cork-screw appearing glands w/ cystic dilation
- increased risk of gastric adenocarcioma
- often follows resp inf
Menetrier disease
- gastrin-secreting tumors
- common in SI or pancreas
- duodenal ulcers
- chronic diarrhea
- doubling of oxyntic mucosal thickness
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
risk of polyp dysplasia correlates to _____
size
polyps larger than _____ should be resected and histologically examined
1.5 cm
- well circumscribed lesions with smooth surface
- single or multiple
- cystically dilated, irregular glands lined by flattened parietal and cheif cells
- ass’d with increasing use of proton pump inhibitors
fundic gland polyps
almost always occur on a background of chronic gastritis with atrophy and intestinal metaplasia
gastric adenoma