Gastro Flashcards
Failed involution of vitteline duct
Meckels diverticulum
Occurs when closure of the abdominal wall is incomplete
Abd.viscera herniates into VENTRAL membranous sac
Omphalocele
OLIVE sized abdominal mass on P.E.of the abdomen
Asso.with Turner syndrome and trisomy 18
Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
Distal vs proximal segment in hirschprung disease
Distal segment- normal or contracted, absence of ganglion
Proximal segment- dilated, distended (megacolon)
Explosive passage of flatus and feces
Hirschprung dsea.
Mc outpatient GI dx
Most frequent cause of esophagitis
Reflux esophagitis
Patches of red, velvety mucosa extending upward from GEJ
Intestinal GOBLET cells are definitive dx
Barrets esophagus
Most frequent location of esophageal adenocarcinoma
Distal 1/3 of esophagus
Most frequent loc.of esophageal adenoca
Middle 1/3 of esophagus
Mcc of chronic gastritis
H.pylori
Pit abscess
Antral gastritis
MALT lymphoma
H. Pylori gastritis
Glandular atrophy of oxyntic mucosa
Megaloblastic change
Intestinal metaplasia
Antral endo. Hyperplasia
Autoimmune gastritis
4x more common in proximal duodenum (duodenal bulb) than the stomach
Punch out defect
Mucosal defect with clean edge
Necrotic ulcer base
PUD
Mc malignancy in the stomach
Gastric Adeno ca
True or false, PUD does not impart an increased risk of gastric ca
Tru
Linitis plastica (diffuse rugal flattening) Leather bottle appearance (rigid, thick wall)
Gastric adenoca
Islands,trabeculae, strands, glands or sheets of uniform cells
Salt and pepper chromatin
Carcinoid tumor
Mc messenchymal tumor of the abdomen
GIST
Tumoe marker for GIST
C- kit
Site at greatest risk for trnsmural infarction (bowel)
Splenic flexure
Enlargement of peyer’s patches
Oval ulcers
Typhoid nodules
Typhoid fever
Mucopurulent exudates forms an Eruption reminiscent of a volcano
Pseudomembranous colitis
DOC: metronidazole or oral vancomycin
Malabsorption diarrhea due to impaired lymphatic transport
Whipples disease
Triad of whipples dsea.
Diarrhea
Weight loss and malabsorption