Final Flashcards
- What might a person with long standing hepatitis C have abdominal distention?
Cirrhosis causing ascites
What affect can ascites have on the gallbladder?
Edematous gallbladder wall
What is the upper limit of the pancreatic duct?
2mm
What is the most common malignant tumor of the pancreas?
Adenocarcinoma
Renal carcinoma can likely invade other parts of the body. Where else might you look when you suspect a mass?
RV, IVC, contralateral
What is the most common bladder tumor in America?
Transitional Cell Carcinoma
What tumor is associated with cholangiocarcinoma?
Klatskin’s tumor
What is the most common pelvic tumor
Fibroids
What is the upper limit of the MPV diameter?
13mm
Name 2 cancers that might metastasize to the liver.
Breast, colon, GB, pancreas, stomach
What pediatric pathology is the stricture or obliteration of the bile ducts?
Biliary atresia
What is the name of hypoechoic areas of regenerating liver parenchyma?
Focal sparing
Name 2 causes of obstruction in the kidney.
Stone, mass, enlarged prostate, pregnancy
Showing jets on ultrasound rules out obstruction. True or False.
False
A fibroid located in the endometrium is which type?
Submucosal
What condition is consistent with the cystic dilation of the biliary tree?
Choledochal cyst
What is the most common primary liver tumor in children?
Hepatoblastoma
What are the upper limits of endometrial measurement for a postmenopausal woman who is not on HRT?
4-5mm
Which typically benign liver mass is associated with prominent vascularity, a stellate scar, and also discovered when vascularity is disturbed?
FNH (adenoma has a central scar and vasculature is around the periphery)
What is the most common location of Klatskin’s tumor?
Hilum of liver at the junction of right and left hepatic ducts
List 2 causes of pancreatitis.
Alcoholism and biliary disease
What is a common effect of acute and chronic pancreatitis?
Pseudocyst
Pyelonephritis is seen as a diffuse disease on sonography. True or False
True (look for areas of masses; infectious process that is encased, look at the entire organ)
What type of pediatric tumor can appear along the sympathetic nervous system, mostly in the adrenals.
Neuroblastoma
One sonographic feature of an endometrioma.
Low-level echoes, punctate hypoechoic areas along the borders, well-defined, thin walls, internal echoes.
How would you distinguish between adrenal hemorrhage and neuroblastoma at adrenals?
Vascularity within neuroblastoma
What is the most common benign neoplasm of liver?
Cavernous hemangioma
What pancreatic lab value will increase first?
Amylase
Unilateral pediatric kidney cyst will indicate what disease?
Multicystic kidney disease
What is the upper limits of intrahepatic ducts?
3mm
What are the 3 most significant, important signs of acute cholecystitis?
Pericholecystic fluid, thick wall, echogenic foci
If you had a patient who has a long history of urinary obstruction with echogenic debris in the collecting system, what could it be?
Pyonephritis
How might the size of the ovary change within the first 24-36 hours of ovarian torsion?
Enlarges
Name 2 possible sonographic appearances of acute pancreatitis.
Normal or enlarged, hypoechoic
What is the most common renal tumor in children?
Wilm’s Tumor
Name 2 collateral pathways that can form with portal HTN.
Cavernous transformation and patent umbilical vein.
Which adult liver mass is most likely to increase AFP?
HCC
What pelvic pathology could be seen with diffused heterogeneous uterus with myometrial cyst?
Adenomyosis (mostly when you can’t measure something discretely)
A pancreatic head mass may have what affect on the bile ducts and where?
Can cause dilated ducts (intrahepatic or extraheptic or pancreatic ducts) and increased gallbladder size
An uterine pathology that is often caused by unopposed estrogen.
Fibroid, hyperplasia of endometrium, endometrial carcinoma
What is the most common cause of hydronephrosis in peds?
UPJ obstruction
What vessel takes over the blood flow in liver when PV is thombosed?
Hepatic artery
What are the sonographic findings with acute kidney injury?
Enlarged, hyperechoic
Your patient has an increased WBC and fever, you find dilated ducts.
Cholangitis
What pediatric tumor is the most common in the first year of life?
Neuroblastoma