GI Flashcards
Gingival hypertrophy
Side effect of calcium channel blockers or phenytoin
Bird beak appearance (and distended oesophagus)
Achalasia (if in lower GI imaging, is a sign on bowel obstruction)
Grey Turner’s (lumbar redness) and Cullen’s sign (umbilical redness) positive
Acute pancreatitis
Mnemonic for acute pancreatitis
Idiopathic Gallstones Ethanol (alcohol) Trauma Steroids Mumps and Malignancy Autoimmune Scorpion bites Hyperlipidaemia/hypercalcaemia ERCP Drugs
Murphy’s sign positive
Acute cholecystitis
Pale stools, jaundice, abdominal pain
Biliary obstruction
Abdominal distension, caput medusae, shifting dullness
Portal hypertension + ascites
Erythema nodosum/polygangrenosum
Crohn’s/UC
Tinkling bowel sounds
Bowel obstruction
Vesicular rash + weight loss
Coeliac disease
Virchow’s node positive
Gastric cancer
Urea breath test
H pylori
Glycocholic breath test
Bacterial overgrowth
Rice water stools
Cholera
Salmon pink rash
Typhoid
AMA antibodies
Primary biliary cirrhosis
ASMA antibodies
Autoimmune hepatitis
Alpha feto protein assay
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Anti-TTG
Coeliac disease
ANCA antibodies
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Cobblestone mucosa
Crohn’s disease
Corkscrew oesophagus
Oesophageal spasm
Russell’s sign positive
Self induced vomiting
Mallory’s hyline bodies
Alcoholic liver disease
Crypt abscesses
Ulcerative colitis
Onion skinning fibrosis/beading of bile ducts
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Thumb-printing on AXR at splenic flexure
Ischaemic colitis
Signet ring cells on AXR
diffuse stomach cancer
RUQ pain, fever, jaundice
Charcots triad (acute cholangitis)
High urine 5- hydroxyindolaecetic acid
Carcinoid syndrome
Traveler with chronic diarrhoea, weight loss, vitamin B12 deficiency
Tropical sprue
Diarrhoea, vomiting + neurological problems after fish consumption
Ciguatera syndrome
Diarrhoea, steatorrhoea, B12 deficiency
Bacterial overgrowth
Dysphagia, iron deficiency anaemia, glossitis, oesophageal webs
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
