Chapter 1- Abd Sonography Overview Flashcards
What type of preparation does a patient need when doing a GB ultrasound?
Fast 6-8 hours
What kind of preparation does a patient need when doing a renal ultrasound?
Full bladder
What lab value will be elevated when there is sign of infection/inflammation?
Wbc
What substance is produced by a cancerous tumor or an organ or structure in response to cancer?
Tumor marker
What word would you use to comprare two structures with similar echogenicities?
Isoechoic
What organs are considered intraperitoneal?
GLOSSI- GB, Liver, Ovaries, Spleen, Stomach, Intestines
What organs are considered retroperitoneal?
Sad Pucker- suprarenal glands, aorta/IVC, duodenum, pancreas, ureters, colon, kidneys, esophagus, rectum
What is the condition in which the red blood cell count or hemoglobin is decreased called?
Anemia
Where are Chromaffin cells found? And what do they do?
In the adrenal medulla and secrete epinephrine and non epinephrine
What is another name for the posterior rt subhepatic space?
Morrisons pouch
A normal GB without echoes would be described as?
Anechoic
What are components of a simple cyst?
Smooth walls or borders
Anechoic
Round in shape
A patient with increased TSH and decreased T4 lab values is likely to have?
Hypothyroidism
A patients with a decreased hematocrit is likely to be experiencing?
Hemorrhage
What do the standard precautions include?
Hand hygiene
PPE
safe injection practices
Safe handling of potential contaminated equipment and surfaces
Respiratory hygiene and coughing etiquette
What does medical asepsis refer to?
The practices used to render an object or area free of pathogenic microorganisms
Higher frequency linear array transducers should be used for?
Superficial structures, such as thyroid, scrotum, breast and msk
What does higher frequency do to the resolution? And penetration?
Higher resolution
Less penetration
What does the word part “blast” often mean?
Childhood malignancy
What is another word for gray scale?
B-mode or brightness mode
What is a benign mass commonly located in the adrenal gland consisting of chromaffin cells called?
Pheochromocytoma
What cancer originates in the tubules of the kidneys and is aka hypernephroma?
Renal cell carcinoma
A malignant tumor of the liver is known as?
Hepatoma or hepatocellular carcinoma
What is another name for nephroblastoma?
Wilms tumor
What condition causes narrowing or occlusion of the hepatic veins and possibly the IVC
Budd-Chiari syndrome
What syndrome causes rare complication of pelvic inflammatory disease causing inflammation to the tissue surrounding the liver?
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome
What disease is associated with hyperthyroidism?
Graves disease
What is Klinefelter syndrome?
A genetic condition in which a male has an extra X chromosome
The neuroblastoma is a malignant pediatric mass commonly found in the:
Adrenal gland
A type of reverberation artifact caused by several small, highly reflective interfaces, such as gas bubbles, describes:
Comet tail artifact
The term cholangiocarcinoma denotes:
Bile duct carcinoma
What occurs when the Doppler sampling rate (pulse-repetition frequency) is not high enough to display the Doppler frequency shift?
Aliasing
Which of the following is the space located between the pancreas and the stomach?
Lesser sac
An angiosarcoma would most likely be discovered in the:
Spleen
Which is an artifact that alters the echogenicity of a tendon?
Anisotropy
The gastrinoma would most likely be discovered in the:
Pancreas
Which of the following is considered to be a malignant testicular neoplasm?
Yolk sac tumor
Which of the following is caused by the bending of the ultrasound beam when it passes through an interface between two tissues with vastly dissimilar speeds of sound and the angle of the approach is not perpendicular?
Refraction
These potential spaces extend alongside the ascending and descending colon on both sides of the abdomen.
Paracolic gutters
What organ has both an endocrine and an exocrine function?
Pancreas
